Al Qaeda, their Plan
Why have clerics and militants once considered allies by Al Qaeda's leaders turned against
them? To a large extent, it is because Al Qaeda and its affiliates have increasingly adopted the
doctrine of takfir, by which they claim the right to decide who is a "true" Muslim. Al Qaeda's
Muslim critics know what results from this takfiri view: First, the radicals deem some Muslims
apostates; after that, the radicals start killing them. This fatal progression happened in both
Algeria and Egypt in the 1990s. It is now taking place even more dramatically in Iraq, where
Al Qaeda's suicide bombers have killed more than 10,000 Iraqis, most of them targeted simply
for being Shia. Recently, Al Qaeda in Iraq has turned its fire on Sunnis who oppose its diktats,
a fact not lost on the Islamic world's Sunni majority.
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Why have clerics and militants once considered allies by Al Qaeda's leaders turned against
them? To a large extent, it is because Al Qaeda and its affiliates have increasingly adopted the
doctrine of takfir, by which they claim the right to decide who is a "true" Muslim. Al Qaeda's
Muslim critics know what results from this takfiri view: First, the radicals deem some Muslims
apostates; after that, the radicals start killing them. This fatal progression happened in both
Algeria and Egypt in the 1990s. It is now taking place even more dramatically in Iraq, where
Al Qaeda's suicide bombers have killed more than 10,000 Iraqis, most of them targeted simply
for being Shia. Recently, Al Qaeda in Iraq has turned its fire on Sunnis who oppose its diktats,
a fact not lost on the Islamic world's Sunni majority.
http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=702bf6d5-a37a-4e3e-a491-fd72bf6a9da1&k=31014
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