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October 12, 2005
Zawa's Fatwa
With Iraq on lockdown approaching Saturday's momentous constitutional referendum, Al Qaeda's number two Ayman al-Zawahri has gone on record (quite unintentionally) as advocating the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
"It has always been my belief," he writes, "that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established ... in the heart of the Islamic world." From that heart (called Mesopotamia, remember, not Iraq) will extend tentacles of Islamism aimed at Syria as well as Jordan and Lebanon.
The publicity of this note, meant for pen pal al-Zarqawi, comes at a fine time. Not only does it throw the upcoming vote in Iraq into higher relief, but it expresses in a very public forum (the Associated Press) the very real danger posed by revolutionary Islamism to countries not known to be American stooges or poodles. If it wasn't yet clear to Arabs generally and the world at large that Al Qaeda intends to impose deliberately its repressed and cankered will without regard to American policy, then it should be now.
Will Assad get the drift (while he lasts)?
Posted by James G. Poulos at October 12, 2005 02:53 PM
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