Word: azzam
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...crusades and in the shadow of colonialism," he says. "The image of an overwhelming military power coming in already provokes major questions about deeper U.S. intentions. If you add an aggressive missionary presence, it will be easy to see this as a kind of American Christian triumphalism." Says Azzam Tamimi, director of the London-based Institute of Islamic Political Thought: "Wherever I go, people say, 'Haven't you heard about American missionaries in Jordan waiting to go into Iraq?' These are educated people; under normal circumstances, the missionaries would not be a big deal, but now people find it very...
...Azzam Tamimi, director of London's Institute of Islamic and Political Thought, suggested that America should be careful to capture bin Laden alive [VIEWPOINT, March 17]. Such advice is offensive. Whether he is captured dead or alive is the decision of bin Laden, not the U.S. It was bin Laden, the son of a wealthy father, who chose to murder innocent people. Do not insult his poor followers by suggesting he is one of them. Absolutely not. He is educated. He had opportunities and privileges that most of them will never be offered. He made his own decision. Bin Laden...
...nearing its destination, the al-Falah Mosque in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar, when it hit the land mine. All four passengers in the vehicle--a father with his two young sons and another youth--were killed. Chief among the dead that Friday was Sheik Abdullah Azzam, 48. It was the second attempt on his life. Earlier in 1989 a bomb was planted beneath the pulpit of a mosque where he was supposed to preach and pray, but the bomb did not explode. Azzam, a Palestinian, was the most prominent advocate of a jihad to save the Muslim lands...
...Azzam's killers have never been identified. But the man who gained the most from his demise was his deputy, Osama bin Laden, who took over the role of first among the jihadis. The Saudi aristocrat had been the chief financier of Azzam's organization and a devoted follower since the early 1980s, when he came under Azzam's influence while studying at Jeddah University. Disagreement between master and protege over the shape of a post-Soviet Afghanistan led to a parting of ways in early 1989, and soon bin Laden went off to found al-Qaeda. With Azzam dead...
...partition plan called for the creation of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel. Arab states refused the offer, declared war against Israel, and told Arabs in Palestine to leave their homes until Israel was destroyed. The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, proclaimed the war’s purpose clearly on May 15, 1948. He declared; “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” When the Arab League lost the war that they started against...