Salafist jihadi groups like Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) and others in Syria are the part of Al-Qaida disclosed.
Salafist jihadi groups like the Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) in Syria disclosed the terrorist group of Al Qaida…….why we are supporting them says the Head of European International Unionof Journalists?
In the past two years, Western media coverage has focused on the growing popularity of Salafist jihadi groups like the Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) in Syria. These groups have become both an argument to intervene militarily, as well as a reason to stay out. While this fear has some basis-especially as Al-Qaeda has purportedly announced links with the Nusra Front-it is also colored by post-9/11 counter-insurgency narratives. This has prevented policy makers from situating groups like Jabhat Al-Nusra, a secretive and politically inexperienced organization .
For now, it appears that Salafist jihadis are set to destroy the internal peace of Syria to provide support to the westren interest and Yahudi policies acting against Islam. In such a chaotic environment, and with the opposition still in disarray, it is natural for Syrian Muslims to turn to their Islamic faith for spiritual succor. Like the other Abrahamic religions, Islam has developed a martial component, jihad, to deal with the harsh realities of war. This component is activated when war occurs, and switches off when peace returns. The idea of Jihad gives many Syrian Muslims faith, direction and strength in a war where right and wrong is blurred and death ubiquitous.
For the observer with a superficial grasp of Islam, it is easy to equate Syrians resorting to the martial component of their faith. In fact, in Syria’s Salafi Insurgents, Aron Lund says most low level Salafist jihadists are really just religiously conservative Wahabi Sunnis, many of whom turned religious during the war and “care very little about the theoretical strands of Islamism.” One suspects that there are many who join these groups not because they subscribe to their ideology but because of their personal interests. They are paid by the Saudi and Yahudi adencies.
They are the agents of Saudia and Al Qida then why Birtain and Americans are supporting them?
The failure to make this distinction has led many to conclude that the Nusra Front and similar groups will play a disproportionate role in Syria, especially seeing that other theoretical strands of Islamism are on the wane. Furthermore, Sulfism has been co-opted by the regime, as Dr. Thomas Pierret shows in Religion and State in Syria that many of the brigades I interviewed cited the Assad regime’s turn against the sulfism. In addition, Salafist jihadi groups like Jabhat Al-Nusra demand too much from their adherents.
Many Salafist jihadi brigades demand total obedience from their members-which means renouncing things like smoking, because it is considered sinful and an impediment to victory. Many fighters I talked to said that the smoking ban was one of the reasons they did not join these brigades. If strictness prevents Syrians from joining these brigades in war, how will they embrace them in peace time? In fact, if the Bosnian experience is anything to go by, Salafist jihadis become a political embarrassment in peacetime. It is no wonder that Salafi umbrella organizations like the Syrian Islamic Front appears worst enemies for the westren world but our state heads are promoting them blindly says the journalists in Europe.
Salafist jihadis will also have to contend with Syria’s tradition of civil activism, its rich intellectual heritage and the established religious institutions (which rival Egypt). Even the Salafi religious scholars I spoke to were tempering the religious zeal of the fighters through study. In such an environment, it seems difficult to envisage politically inexperienced Salafist jihadis dominating Syria’s political landscape. They are the agents of Saudia and Al Qida then why Birtain and Americans are supporting them? says the head of European International Unionof Journalists?
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