Islamic
State Wins Support from Jordanian Pol, Shocks Saudis
by IPT News • Sep 5, 2014 at 1:26
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Ruthless violence from the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS, or
ISIS) is dividing people in the Muslim world, two recent clips from Middle
East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) show.
In Jordan, politician Muhammad Bayoudh Al-Tamimi, a Palestinian, vigorously defended the group during a television
appearance posted online Aug. 31. Islamic State ideology "stems from
the Quran and the Sunna," he said, according to MEMRI's translation.
"The Quran and the Sunna constitute their ideology, doctrine, and
conduct…there is no such thing as 'ISIS ideology' – its Islam."
It has divided the world into two camps – those who stand with the West,
including the United States – and those who stand with ISIS. A recent ISIS
slaughter of Syrian troops was justified, Al-Tamimi said, because,
"They had killed tens of thousands of Muslims… If these Muslims are
terrorists – I salute those terrorists! I salute the Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria! Blessed be your hands! March on!"
For Saudi Arabia, however, news that a 25-year-old Saudi doctor, Faisal
bin Shaman Al-'Anzi, carried out a suicide car-bomb attack for ISIS in
northern Iraq in July, killing and inuring approximately 30 people, sent
shockwaves through the country's press, a separate MEMRI report shows.
Columnists questioned how someone tasked with saving lives could join a
terrorist group like ISIS. Some also emphasized that the roots of the
radicalization are based in the institutions of Saudi society, including
the education system. Some even suggested re-evaluating the overall
ideological origins of the Saudi state.
For instance, liberal Saudi columnist Halima Muzaffa called for reform
of the Saudi education system and social institutions, in an article in the
daily Al-Watan.
"The phenomenon [of joining ISIS] doubtlessly indicates that our
education [system] is unable to improve [the students'] awareness, which
means that we must reassess [the issue of] increasing the level of their
awareness. However, the responsibility for this does not lie solely with
the education [system], but with all the social institutions that are party
to shaping [people's] awareness. Therefore, we must rebuild the
ideological-moral system in all the institutions, on the religious,
educational, medical and media levels," writes Muzaffa.
In the Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, columnist Mishari Al-Zaidi
compared Al-'Anzi to other doctors in history who participated in brutal
activities, such as Nazi doctor Aribert Heim and Serbian doctor Radovan
Karadzic. He noted that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri also is a doctor.
The ISIS ideology is "a malady that kills off the conscience and
emotions," Al-Zaidi writes. He called on Saudi education and health
professionals "to open their eyes and wake up in order to notice any
sign, even the most minute, of any civil servant's [attraction to the ideas
of] ISIS -- which could become a cup of poison that will end up causing
bitterness and death. This epidemic means that [we must declare] a state of
emergency -- from the home through the office to the street."
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