Islamist websites report
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Special Report - Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project
November 11, 2004
No. 35
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Islamist Websites and their Hosts
Part II: Clerics
By Marie-Hilhne Boccara & Alex Greenberg*
Introduction
This is the second part(1) in a series of reports on Islamist
websites, focusing on those with Internet Service Providers (ISP's) in
the West.(2) For the benefit of the reader and to facilitate
understanding of what the websites contain, we have added an example
from the contents of each website. It should be noted that a large
number of Islamist websites are often hacked or shut down, but
reappear on other servers, sometimes under new domain names, sometimes
they just disappear. All details are valid as of publication date.
www.members.lycos.co.uk/abugaith1
Affiliation: Website of Al-Qa'ida spokesman Sheikh Suleiman Abu
Gheith, originally from Kuwait.(3)
Registered by: Details unavailable.
IP address: 212.78.204.20
ISP: Lycos Tripod (Spray) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: Lycos Netblock in Geutersloh, Germany:
lycos.de IP-213.193.20.11 and 213.193.20.12 Spray Network Services in
Stockholm, Sweden: spray.net IP-212.78.192.251 and IP-212.78.192.252
Excerpt from the website (audio recording of Friday sermon, undated):
"... [Allah,] the Almighty and Great! When he wanted to help our
religion [to win] and in order to render His word supreme and to
humiliate his enemies, he brought out these heroes, these men, the
Jihad fighters who seek death as others seek life and seek Allah's
promise in the Koran and sacrifice their property, their blood, and
their lives as a sign of the sincerity of their faith. When Allah
wanted [to bring the downfall of] the country of heresy [i.e. the
U.S.] and humiliate it and grind its nose into the ground, he brought
out Osama [bin Laden]."(4)
www.almaqdese.com(5)
Affiliation: Website of Palestinian Sheikh Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, a
pseudonym for 'Asem Al-Burqawi, who was expelled from Kuwait to Jordan
after the first Gulf War, and in November 2001 was arrested by the
Jordanian authorities.
Registered by: Ahmad Ali in London, Great Britain.
IP address: 66.78.36.82
ISP: Virtual Development in Clifton, New Jersey, United States; and
Interserver Inc. in Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: Interserver Inc. in Fort Lee, New Jersey,
United States:
trouble-free.net IP-66.45.228.2
Excerpt from the website (Friday sermon, August 21, 2004):
"I say: Cutting off heads is a part of our religion. Indeed, by God,
slaughtering Allah's enemies is part of our religion. It should be
done in accordance with the interests of the Islamic nation...
"Cutting off heads and slaughtering Allah's enemies is part of this
religion, as is written in the biography of the leader of the Jihad
fighters [i.e. the Prophet Muhammad]...
"Slaughtering is the appropriate message and the effective remedy for
those who understand only the language of blood and the logic of
force, those who pounded the villages in Afghanistan with B-82 planes
and with Tomahawk missiles and murdered old people, women and children
by the thousands...
"When a Jihad fighter kills some barbaric infidel, the whole world is
in turmoil, and they [the infidels] call the Jihad fighters terrorists
and murderers.
"The defeatists, in acquiescence to them [i.e. the infidels], announce
that cutting off heads is not in accordance with Islam and that these
Jihad fighters have no mercy in their hearts. No, by God, this is
mercy ... because those [infidels] can only understand the language of
slaughtering, murder and blood.
"May your right hand be blessed, my brother Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi!
"May your right hand be blessed, my brother Abu Hajar, 'Abd Al-'Aziz
Al-Muqrin!...
"Acting in accordance with the Prophet Mohammad's mercy, we slaughter
the criminals and aggressors and hold sacred the lives of Muslims and
help the oppressed."(6)
http://66.34.76.88/NaserAlfahed/
Affiliation: Website of Saudi Sheikh Nasser bin Hamed Al-Fahd, a
prominent Salafi scholar. He was arrested by Saudi authorities in
November 2003.
Registered by: Details unavailable.
IP address: 66.34.76.88
ISP: C I Host in Bedford, Texas, United States; and CIHS in Bedford,
Texas, United States.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: C I Host in Bedford, Texas, United States;
and CIHS in Bedford, Texas, United States: IP-66.34.76.88
Excerpt from the website (book titled 'Exposition about the Heresy of
Those who Aid the Americans'):
"You already know that the Crusading infidel attack - led by the
enemies of Allah, the Americans and their allies from among the other
infidels and hypocrites - is directed against Islam and the Muslims.
Therefore, [you should] know that any aid to them in their war -
whether in body, in weapons, in tongue, in heart, by [means of the]
pen, money, or in opinion, or anything else - is heresy and apostasy."(7)
Excerpt from www.al-fhd.net(Cool (treatise 'Ruling Regarding the Use
of Weapons of Mass Destruction' [Against the Infidels]):
"If a bomb was dropped on them [i.e. the Americans] that would
annihilate 10 million and burn their lands to the same extent that
they burned the Muslim lands - this is permissible, with no need to
mention any other proof. Yet if we want to annihilate a greater
number, we need further evidence...
"Texts that prove it is possible to carry out a surprise nighttime
attack on the polytheists even if their offspring will be harmed by
it...
"On this matter, Hamed wrote: 'Although it is proven that the Prophet
forbade the killing of women and children, if you collect these
hadiths you will find that this is a prohibition against the
premeditated killing of them. But if their being killed is the result
of a surprise attack and a raid, and an inability to distinguish among
them [i.e. the enemy under attack] then there is nothing wrong with
it, and the Jihad is not called off because of the presence of the
women and children of the infidels'..."(9)
www.altartousi.com
Affiliation: Website of Saudi Sheikh Abd Al-Mun'im Abu Halimah (aka
Abu Baseer Al-Tartousi), a leading Saudi cleric.
Registered by: Arkan Abu Shihab in London, Great Britain.
IP address: 212.78.206.150
ISP: Lycos Webcenter (Spray) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: Lycos Webcenter in Stockholm, Sweden:
lyceu.net IP-212.78.206.21, 212.78.206.22, and Spraynet in Stockholm,
Sweden: lyceu.net IP-212.78.192.249
Excerpt from the website (article published July 6, 2004 'Dubious
Issues that Arise with Regard to Pacts and Assurance of Protection'):
"One must not confuse right and wrong. America should be rightly
defined as a tyrannical state that is waging war against Islam and the
Muslims. It is in fact involved in a direct and ongoing war against
the Muslims in more than one Muslim country. Therefore, there can be
no contract or agreement of safe passage [that would guarantee the
life of American citizens] between it [i.e., America] and those whom
it fights. It is obligatory to wage Jihad and fight [America]...
"It is, however, wrong to assume that each and every individual of the
280 million American people cannot enjoy the rights of safe passage or
a contract if he is granted such a contract by an individual Muslim or
by some Muslims, even though his government is at war with Islam and
the Muslims...
"[As for the question] whether the American troops in the Gulf states
are occupiers or ahl dhimma [i.e., a protected non-Muslim minority]...
"The American troops in the Gulf states are not ahl dhimma ... they
are invaders and occupiers. No perceptive rational person would doubt
this."(10)
www.alhawali.com
Affiliation: Website of the conservative Saudi Sheikh Safar Al-Hawali,
who was imprisoned in 1994 due to his opposition to the Gulf War and
was released in 1999. He professes to have had a drastic change of
heart in recent years.
Registered by: Fouad Ahmad Alfarhan in Jedda, Saudi Arabia.
IP address: 204.187.100.66
ISP: Almina Multimedia Services in Ottawa, Canada.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: Almina Multimedia Services in Ottawa,
Canada: amana.ca IP-204.187.100.11
Excerpt from the website (fatwa concerning current Jihad regulations,
taken from lecture titled "The Duty of Muslims for the Grace of Allah"):
"Once we realize [all that is required by] the faith of Islam and
monotheism, once we propagate the message of Allah and overcome our
evil inclinations, then we shall vanquish our enemies, Allah willing.
It is our duty to carry out these two kinds of Jihad in every Muslim
country...
"We should begin by propagating the message of Allah and end by
fighting the infidels and conquering countries. All of this is called
Jihad of Da'wa [the propagation of Islam]. As for defensive Jihad
[which is a personal obligation for every Muslim] - most Islamic lands
are now under occupation [by infidels], be they Russian, Shi'ite,
Baathist, socialist or democratic - all of which are doctrines of
unbelief."(11)
www.saaid.net
Affiliation: Umbrella website that provides links to numerous Islamist
clerics.
Registered by: Saaid.NET in Umloj, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
IP address: 67.18.249.35
ISP: ThePlanet.com Services Inc. in Dallas, Texas, United States.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: Everyone's Internet in Houston, Texas,
United States: doook.net IP-66.98.167.213
Examples of links:
1. http://www.saaid.net/Doat/ahdal/ Website of Yemenite Abd Allah
Al-Ahdal, President of the Department of Islamic Studies at the
University of Medina, Saudi Arabia.
Excerpt from the website (article: "Who are You?"):
"The explosions that occur and which cause hundreds and dozens of
Muslims to lose their lives are forbidden according to Allah's law...
We ask them [those who kill Muslims]: Who are you? Do you consider
yourselves Jihad fighters? Against whom are you waging Jihad? Are you
waging Jihad against the Jews on the blessed land, against whom every
Muslim knows there is an obligation to wage Jihad? Are you waging
Jihad against the aggressive Crusaders, who helped the Jews to kill
the leaders of Jihad and others in Palestine and who occupied Muslim
countries and spread corruption in Afghanistan and Iraq? They fight
the Islamic da'wa [the propagation of Islam] and those who propagate
[Islam], and they fight the Islamic relief organizations on every inch
of the land, and prepare to occupy other Muslim countries, Arab and
non-Arab...
"If you had carried out these attacks in those lands against the
aggressors and conquerors, being devoted to Allah and defending the
necessities of life of the Islamic Nation, then the fallen among you
would have entered Paradise and the fallen among your enemies [would
have entered] hell..."( 12)
2. http://saaid.net/Warathah/hmood/index.htm Website of the late
Saudi salafi Sheikh Hamud bin 'Uqala' al-Shu'eibi [d. 2001].
Excerpt from the website (fatwa issued on April 26, 2001, concerning
the nature of martyrdom operations):
"These operations of seeking martyrdom are in accordance with the
shari'a [Islamic law] and they fall under the definition of Jihad, if
they are carried out with sincere intention. This is one of the most
successful and effective means of Jihad against the enemies of this
religion because it causes much damage and many casualties, both dead
and wounded, and because it spreads terror and fear and dread among
them, and because it emboldens the Muslims against them and
strengthens the hearts of the Muslims and breaks the hearts of the
enemies and brings much slaughtering upon them...
"In sum, all the above shows that Jihad fighters can sacrifice
themselves in operations of martyrdom for the purpose of Jihad and to
cause damage to [the enemy] ... because there are such great benefits
in Jihad, many [prohibited] things which are not [generally] forgiven,
such as lying and deceiving, are forgiven for the sake of Jihad. Thus,
it is permitted in Jihad to kill those who [It is generally prohibited
to kill, such as the above-mentioned Muslims used as human shields by
the enemies, and the women and children of the infidels]. That is the
general rule in the questions of Jihad, and therefore the question of
martyrdom operations falls under this category."(13)
www.qaradawi.net
Affiliation: Website of Egyptian-born Sheikh Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradhawi,
one of the most prominent figures in the Muslim Brotherhood movement
and a religious authority for most Sunni Islamist organizations and
movements.(14)
Registered by: Qaradawi Net in Doha, Qatar
IP address: 64.106.142.93
ISP: Data Pipe, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States; and Atef
Alqashqish, private residence, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: Alabanza Inc. in Baltimore, Maryland,
United States: dedicatedns.com IP-65.109.255.100; Data Pipe in
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States: datapipe.net IP-64.27.65.13;
UUNET, Ashburn in Virginia, United States, and CIS in Waretown, New
Jersey, United States: worldwidedns.net IP-63.126.69.123
Excerpt from the website (from statement in the Qatari daily Al-Watan,
which appeared on Qaradawi's website on October 25, 2004, "Martyrdom
Operations Are the Greatest Form of Jihad"):
"Dr.Yussuf Qaradhawi has confirmed that the operations carried out by
the Muslim youth that defend the lands of Islam and the religion and
dignity of Islam are the greatest forms of Jihad for the sake of
Allah. They fall under the definition of legitimate terrorization... I
maintain that it is wrong to consider these acts as 'suicidal,'
because these are heroic acts of martyrdom, which are in fact very
different from suicide..."(15)
www.mawlawi.net
Affiliation: Website of Sheikh Faysal Al-Mawlawi, Secretary-General of
the Al-Jama'a Al-Islamiyya organization in Lebanon and spiritual
leader of the Union of Islamic Organizations in France.
Registered by: Openface Inc. in Montreal, Canada.
IP address: 207.115.107.175
ISP: Openface Inc. in Montreal, Canada.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: Openface Inc. in Montreal, Canada:
openface.ca IP-216.46.1.14
Excerpt from the website (fatwa #751, issued on May 26, 2003, "Waging
Jihad in Iraq"):
"There is no doubt that if a Muslim land is under attack, Jihad
becomes a personal duty incumbent upon all of its inhabitants and upon
all of its neighbours until aggression is defeated. But in our time,
because the Islamic Nation is divided into many countries - each with
its own government and its internationally recognized borders and
specific laws and treaties - this Islamic shari'a duty is [applied] on
two levels. The first is the Islamic governments. The participation in
Jihad against the aggressive U.S. forces and assistance to the Muslim
people of Iraq is considered a personal duty of each of the [Islamic
governments]. It is true that this obligation depends upon the
[government's] ability, like any other shari'a obligation, but this
condition must not be used as a pretext to avoid giving any kind of
assistance, let alone [a pretext] to help the aggressive forces. This
is strictly forbidden. This is [the kind of] association with infidels
that Allah forbade. The second [level] is [that of] the individual
Muslims worldwide and the Jihad in Iraq, meaning participation in the
fight against the aggressive armies. This is not considered to be a
personal duty [required] of them, but it is desirable for those who
are capable of it. Whoever carries out [that duty] will receive the
reward of a Jihad fighter, God willing, and whoever is killed from
among them is a martyr [shahid], God willing."(16)
www.bouti.net
Affiliation: Website of Syrian Dr. Mohammad Al-Bouti.
Registered by: Dar Al Fikr in Damascus, Syria.
IP address: 66.221.203.241
ISP: C I Host in Bedford, Texas, United States.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: C I Host in Bedford, Texas, United States,
and CIHS in Bedford, Texas, United States: propagation.net
IP-216.221.160.10 and IP-216.221.162.106
Excerpt from the website (Friday sermon, June 13, 2003):
"...O brethren! The circumstances that make Jihad necessary require
every Muslim to rise and, to the best of his ability, to carry out the
obligation which Allah placed on his shoulders. The land of Iraq is an
Islamic land: Islamic history is proud of it, and it is proud of
[its] Islamic history. Now it is occupied by enemies that have come
from afar, claiming they were looking for WMD. But once they occupied
the land they forgot what they were looking for..."(17)
www.awajy.net
Affiliation: Website of Dr. Muhsin Al-'Awwaji, a Saudi Islamist and a
former professor of political science who was jailed in the 1990s for
his opposition to the state.
Registered by: Dr. Mohsen Al-Awajy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
IP address: 81.23.251.191
ISP: Nashirnet in HV Bennekom, the Netherlands.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: Nashirnet in HV Bennekom, the Netherlands:
sites4arab.net IP-81.23.251.21
Excerpt from the website (article published April 13, 2002:
"The American Zionist Enemy - May Allah Fight Them!"): "Where is the
spirit of sacrifice and the seeking of glory and martyrdom [shahada]?
Do we fear death so much, [death] from Jihad or from lesser things?...
"O Allah! Grant us victory over the Christian Crusaders in
Afghanistan, over the usurping Jews in Palestine. O Allah, show us the
wonders of your strength and the suddenness of your vengeance on the
belligerent U.S."(1Cool
www.glue.umd.edu/~kareem/rasayil
Affiliation: Website dedicated to the late Egyptian Sheikh Hassan
Al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood movement [d.1949],
containing his writings.
Registered by: Details unavailable.
IP address: 128.8.10.68
ISP: University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, United States.
Domain/Nameserver Provider: University of Maryland in College Park,
Maryland, United States: umd.edu IP-128.8.5.2, IP-128.8.74.2 and
IP-128.8.76.2
Excerpt from the English version of the website (article "To What do
we Summon Mankind?"):
"One of them will say to you: 'The time for Jihad and good works is
long over.' Another will dampen your zeal by saying that means are
lacking and that the Islamic nations are shackled. A third will be
content to give his religion lip service, prating about it day and
night, and satisfied to limit his religious duties to bowings which he
performs without inner conviction. No, no, brethren! The Koran in your
possession calls out to you clearly and unambiguously: 'The believers
are only those who have believed in Allah and His Apostel [sic], and
then have not doubted, but have striven with their wealth and their
persons in Allah's way - these are the sincere'..."(19)
*Marie-Hilhne Boccara is a Research Fellow at MEMRI and Director of
the Scandinavian Department. Alex Greenberg is a Research Fellow at MEMRI.
Endnotes:
(1) The first report in this series, Special Report No. 31 "Islamist
Websites and Their Hosts Part I: Islamist Terror Organizations" was
released on July 16, 2004,
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&I
D=SR3104
(2) Sources: www.arin.net www.ripe.net www.allwhois.net
www.whois.net , http://whois.godaddy.com
(3) Suleiman Abu Gheith was reportedly jailed by Iranian authorities
in May 2003, but Iran has denied this.
See MEMRI, Special Dispatch No. 388, June 12, 2002,
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP388 02,
for excerpts from an article by Abu Gheith, "In the Shadow of the
Lances", which was posted on another website, belonging to the Center
for Islamic Research and Studies. In this article, he wrote: "We have
the right to kill four million Americans two million of them
children and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds
of thousands. Furthermore, it is our right to fight them with chemical
and biological weapons, so as to afflict them with the fatal maladies
that have afflicted the Muslims because of the [Americans'] chemical
and biological weapons.
"America knows only the language of force. This is the only way to
stop it and make it take its hands off the Muslims and their affairs.
America does not know the language of dialogue!! Or the language of
peaceful coexistence!! America is kept at bay by blood alone"
(4) http://www.members.lycos.co.uk/abugaith1/askthehistory1.ram.
(5) www.abu-qatada.com www.tawhed.ws and www.alsunnah.info share
contents and IP address.
(6)
http://www.almaqdese.com/r?i=2975&PHPSESSID=2352582f5670f384e62a76fe
e9145c85.
(7) http://66.34.76.88/NaserAlfahed/Tibyan1.htm.
(Cool Excerpt from Sheikh Al-Fahds previous website www.al-fhd.net ,
which was hosted by another American ISP until a month ago, when it
was shut down. An earlier version of the website is www.al-fhd.com ,
which can be viewed in the web archives,
http://web.archive.org/web/20030208040030/http://www.al-fhd.com/. See
also MEMRI Special Report No. 25, January 27, 2004"Contemporary
Islamist Ideology Authorizing Genocidal Murder,"
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sr&ID=SR250 4 .
(9) After his arrest in November 2003, Al-Fahd appeared on Saudi TV
and rescinded some of his previous fatwas as mistakes. It is not clear
if this is one of them:
http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/npp/resources/terrorism.htm.
(10) http://www.altartousi.com/refutation/read/f64.doc.
(11)
http://www.alhawali.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=paragraphs¶graphID= 721.
(12) http://saaid.net/Doat/ahdal/96.htm.
(13) http://saaid.net/Warathah/hmood/h30.htm.
(14) See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 794, October 6, 2004, "Reactions
to Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi's Fatwa Calling for the Abduction and Killing
of American Civilians in Iraq",
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP794
04#_edn3, for excerpts from Al-Qaradhawi's statements at a convention
on "Pluralism in Islam", in late August, 2004 at the Egyptian
Journalists' Union in Cairo, that "all of the Americans in Iraq are
combatants, there is no difference between civilians and soldiers, and
one should fight them, since the American civilians came to Iraq in
order to serve the occupation. The abduction and killing of Americans
in Iraq is a [religious] obligation so as to cause them to leave Iraq
immediately. The mutilation of corpses [however] is forbidden in
Islam." This fatwa was affirmed by Isam Talima, director of
Al-Qaradhawi's office. It should be noted that ten days later,
following heated reactions in the Muslim world, Al-Qaradhawi denied
having made this statement, in a fax to the office of the Al-Hayat
London daily.
(15)http://www.qaradawi.net/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=1461
&version=1&template_id=130&parent_id=17.
(16) www.mawlawi.net/fatwa.asp?fid=751&mask.
(17) www.bouti.net/bouti_friday_2003_06_13.html.
(1Coolwww.awajy.net/show.php?id=170.
(19) http://www.glue.umd.edu/~kareem/rasayil/liaysh_e.htm.
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