STORY SUMMARY
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged Syrians to unite to bring down President Bashar al-Assad and thwart what he said were U.S. plans to set up a client state in Syria to safeguard Israel’s security.
In a 22-minute recording, posted on Islamist websites on Thursday to mark 65 years since Israel’s founding, Zawahri also said the only way to solve the Palestinian problem was through Jihad (Islamic holy war).
Influential Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi last week called for Jihad (holy war) against Assad after Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged his forces had joined the fighting in Qusair.
Zawahri warned Syrians not to play into the hands of the United States which, he said, wanted to turn their Jihad into a “Western tool against Iran”.
He said that fighters seeking to topple Assad in Syria had rekindled hope that one day that might happen.
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Jun-06/219628-al-qaeda-leader-zawahri-urges-syrians-to-unite-against-assad-us.ashx#ixzz2VQMdmK5j
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
Categories: Arab World, Asia, Syria
This guy is urging Muslims to kill Muslims. How crazy. – Is it so difficult to see whether we should accept him as a ‘Muslim leader’ versus the Khalifa of Islam, who urges peace in the world?
May Allah open the hearts of the Muslims to follow the right leader / Khalifa!