There are three main groups currently operating Salafi movement in the Gaza Strip and which represent a thorn in the side of Hamas. This is the Ansar Jund Allah (Soldiers of God), the Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) and the Jaish al Umma (Army of the Nation). The most dangerous of these groups for Hamas and for the balance of the area is that of Jund Allah Ansar.
The leader of this group Salafi, Abdul Latif Abu Moussa, was killed by Hamas gunmen in clashes in August 2009. Despite the loss of its leader, the movement not only survived, but has strengthened mainly due to the illegal trade through the tunnels in southern Gaza Strip. The Salafis refer to the Islamic movement of Salafiyya, which literally means 'Movement of the ancestors', founded by the reformist Egyptian Rashid Rida in the late nineteenth century.
Organizations are characterized by a strict Salafi ideology, which includes an apocalyptic rejection of everything that is on the West. Their goal is to restore the 'true Islam' by returning to the sources, namely the Koran and the Sunna of the Prophet Muhammad. In most cases they are directly linked to al-Qaeda.
In the past, Hamas authorities tried to repress it, without success, the Salafist this complex universe in the Gaza Strip. More and more young people seem drawn to religious extremism. Inspired by Osama bin Laden but not directly connected to Al Qaeda, extremists on the religious and political, and compete with Hamas, which they consider too soft in applying the Sharia, alien world of the Caliphate ideal preached by Bin Laden and too prone to military-political compromise.
The galaxy Salafi, a new symbol which today has claimed the kidnapping of the Italian volunteer Vittorio Arrigoni and threatened to kill him, once again the specter of a reality that in recent years has given concrete (and bloody) signals expansion in the territories. A year ago, a spokesman for the Salafi movement claimed that Abu al-Hareth in the Gaza Strip, Al Qaeda "can count on 11 000 supporters."
The leader of this group Salafi, Abdul Latif Abu Moussa, was killed by Hamas gunmen in clashes in August 2009. Despite the loss of its leader, the movement not only survived, but has strengthened mainly due to the illegal trade through the tunnels in southern Gaza Strip. The Salafis refer to the Islamic movement of Salafiyya, which literally means 'Movement of the ancestors', founded by the reformist Egyptian Rashid Rida in the late nineteenth century.
Organizations are characterized by a strict Salafi ideology, which includes an apocalyptic rejection of everything that is on the West. Their goal is to restore the 'true Islam' by returning to the sources, namely the Koran and the Sunna of the Prophet Muhammad. In most cases they are directly linked to al-Qaeda.
In the past, Hamas authorities tried to repress it, without success, the Salafist this complex universe in the Gaza Strip. More and more young people seem drawn to religious extremism. Inspired by Osama bin Laden but not directly connected to Al Qaeda, extremists on the religious and political, and compete with Hamas, which they consider too soft in applying the Sharia, alien world of the Caliphate ideal preached by Bin Laden and too prone to military-political compromise.
The galaxy Salafi, a new symbol which today has claimed the kidnapping of the Italian volunteer Vittorio Arrigoni and threatened to kill him, once again the specter of a reality that in recent years has given concrete (and bloody) signals expansion in the territories. A year ago, a spokesman for the Salafi movement claimed that Abu al-Hareth in the Gaza Strip, Al Qaeda "can count on 11 000 supporters."
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