Political Islam in the News

CSPII Commentary: The execution of the Iranian protester hours after his phone wedding enforces Koran 2:193 “And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah”, treating anti-regime dissent as fitnah that must be fought until all worship is for Islam. This doctrinal mandate leaves no room for peaceful challenge to the regime.

CSPII Commentary: The article fails to mention the Houthi flag that bears the slogan "Allah is great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam"

CSPII Commentary: Nawa-i-Ghazwa-e-Hind , widely identified as Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’s Urdu-language magazine, praises the Omani pilot who tried to crash a Flydubai aircraft on September 30, calling him a true believer and mujahid. It tells Muslim commercial pilots to use their aircraft as weapons and military pilots to crash bomb- and missile-laden planes into the U.S. bases.

CSPII Commentary: Dr. Mahmoud bin Ahmed al-Dosari is a preacher with the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs. He invokes Koran 9:73 and 9:41 and a hadith about striving against polytheists with one’s tongue, person, wealth, and hand. He says Saudi military and political institutions undertake jihad against unbelievers and polytheists, while preachers participate through sermons as “verbal jihad”.

CSPII Commentary: The committee states that peace is the default with a non-Muslim state when no treaty exists, yet says the ruler may choose either continued peace and invitation to Islam or fighting, defining the latter as jihad al-talab (offensive jihad) and a collective duty for those appointed. It cites Koran 2:190, 8:61, 9:1 and 60:8.