Global Jihad: temi, piste di diffusione e il fenomeno del reducismo ...

“I have no doubt that the leaders of the mujaheddin of al-Qa’ida, and the Taliban are
the owners of the black banners who will assist the Mahdi.”
The reader should decide whom to support -- al-Qa’ida, Taliban, and the mujaheddin?
The Arab and Muslim governments and their clerics and Islamic establishments,
which insist on naming themselves Muslims? Or the Crusader West and the enemies
of Allah on earth.
“Who is going to support the Mahdi except these men and clerics, and their
followers? After this war, which has no precedence in human history and in the fight
between the community of the believers and the Devil and its followers, does anyone
doubt that these are the days of the Mahdi?”
Another platform for these apocalyptic views that attracts many Islamic youngsters
these days is an on-line forum of “the Jinn and the Demons” 57 It includes a special
sector for interpretations of dreams and visions. 58 The forum is full of apocalyptic
visions that result from the war in Iraq and the growing Anti-American feelings in
the Arab world. Many of these visions deal with the end of the United States, as the
Saudi supervisor of the sector wrote:
These visions and their alike, of which many were sent to me, propagate the
destruction of this evil country and the punishments, disasters, and dismantling, that
will occur there. This is the way Allah deals with oppressors…. The punishment of
this super oppressor is very close. We ask Allah to heal the hearts of the believers
from its influence, and grant the Muslims all of its finance and equipment as booty.
The apocalyptic visions seemed to be denied by Salafi scholars of al-Qa’ida. In an
unsigned article published in what has been al-Qa’ida’s main web site in the past—
The Center for Islamic Studies and Research—in February 2003, there was an attempt
to disqualify these ideas. The article—“Allah has not assigned our nation to know the
57 Muntada al-Jinn wal-`Afarit:
http://www.jazanvoice.net/vb/index.php?s=d6e3962ff3363e10e6ffa799fdc8e284
58 See:
http://www.jazanvoice.net/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=09676bd441afa83467c79a96220906c1&forumid=32
78