A comparison between Hamas and Al Qaeda

By Jihad Al Sady.
Translated by Faleh Saleh

Preface:
Mr. Jihad Al Sady is a Palestinian writer and analyst. He is one of the thinkers of the Muslim-Brotherhood generally and Hamas particularly. Hamas counts as a part of the Muslim-Brotherhood. He shows in many parts of this comparison his sympathy for Al Qaeda and it mindset.

Hamas has deplored the killing of the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abo Musaab Al Zarqawi, who was known for his brutality and bloody crimes against the Iraqi people.

My comments are the text in (brackets). The rest is translated word by word.

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First:
Both sides have the same worry and that is to defend the egg of the religion and the womb of the community (the Islamic community) and to deter the hand of the enemies from it and defend the ground (the ground of the Muslims), the honor and the sanctuaries. And at the end they meet in the general aim.

Second:
Both sides belong to the Sunna and Jamaa sect (means the Islamic Sunni sect) and there is no difference between them about the obligation of Jihad as a pillar to drive out the occupier from the ground of the Muslims.
Jihad is an obvious obligation in their both opinion, as long as a few centimeters of the ground of the Muslims is still occupied.
(That means they both believe that Jihad is an obligation. Jihad is actually doesn’t belong to the five pillars of Islam, but despite this fact both of them call it a pillar or religious obligation.)

Third:
Their enemies don’t differentiate between them. They call them both “two lawless terrorists groups, acts outside the international systems and laws”. And consequently both of them belong, in the opinion of the western world, in the same basket (that means they both belong to the same collecting tank). They are the same team and have the same ideology. “the ideology of using Jihad to free the ground”

Fourth:
In the long term the project of each one of them supports and stabilizes the other in the “Islamization of the societies” and raising the stance of inactivity, passivity and retirement that accompanied them (accompanied the societies) for long years.

Fifth
Both sides are victims of persecution and threatened from the evil international forces for their soles , their security and their being.

Sixth:
Both sides sacrificed blood, martyrs, prisoners and tortured persons. Their leaders and members has been assassinated.

Seventh:
“Regarding the sincere obvious intention” both of them have a sincere intention to God, Jihad and resistance.
And they are, according to the obvious of their doing, faithful in the intension to satisfy God and are not looking for worldly assets.

Eighth:
Both sides decline in their struggle path the “organizational” affiliation to any of the ruled political systems, “Arabic, Islamic or international”.

They draw their moving paths according to the general interests of the organization (means the interest of Hamas and Al Qaeda).

Ninth:

Both sides based in their quantitative structure particularly on young people. Young people are the majority of their members and supporters.

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The reference:
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D591994-2938-46CE-B32E-42094FFB3E74.htm

Hamas Organization deplored the killing of Zarqawi

GAZA (Reuters) - The ruling Palestinian faction Hamas on Thursday deplored the killing by U.S. warplanes of the al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, describing him as a casualty of a crusade against Arabs and Muslims.

Hamas, branded as a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union and shunned by the West since winning office in the Palestinian government in March, had distanced itself in the past from violence abroad blamed on al Qaeda.

But in a statement faxed to Reuters after Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. air strike north of Baghdad on Wednesday, Hamas said it mourned the Jordanian-born insurgent as a "martyr of the (Muslim Arab) nation".

"With hearts full of faith, Hamas commends brother-fighter Abu Musab ... who was martyred at the hands of the savage crusade campaign which targets the Arab homeland, starting in Iraq," the statement said.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.

The origin Arabic text of Hamas-Organization.

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