Al-Qaida urges Palestinians to quit secular Fatah, embrace Islam
By Reuters
Al-Qaida's second-in-command urged Palestinian fighters on Tuesday to abandon Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction and fight for the creation of an Islamic state that would defeat Israel.
"Brothers in jihad, steadfastness and martyrdom-seeking, freedom and a sovereign government will only be achieved if you liberate Palestine from the Jews and their agents, and only if you set up a government which rules by Islamic law," Ayman al-Zawahri said in a statement carried by the SITE Institute.
"I call on those who fight under the leadership of Fatah to ask themselves: In the path of what are we fighting?"
"Fatah began as a secular national liberation movement fighting not for the establishment of an Islamic state but ... a secular state in Palestine and Islam has forbidden us from fighting unless it is for the supremacy of [God's] word."
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
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