AQAP releases audio message featuring Ibrahim al-Rubaysh

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Oren Adaki

February 5, 2015

 

The media wing of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), al Malahem Media Foundation, released an audio message on Twitter in late January featuring AQAP ideologue Ibrahim al-Rubaysh titled "Allah Will Be Sufficient For You Against Them." In this most recent eight and a half minute message, Rubaysh addresses the surge in solidarity for the victims of January's attack on the satirical French Charlie Hebdo magazine, an operation which AQAP has since claimed.

 

Rubaysh begins his audio message by claiming an infidel's inherent hostility towards Islam and the Muslim community, an argument buttressed by Qur'anic verses cited by the AQAP ideologue. He claims that, "Allah has made clear to us that they [the infidels] will not spare a thing in hurting the Muslims." Rubaysh then goes farther, declaring that "[the infidels] war against us will not cease until they force us to leave Islam."

 

The jihadist ideologue suggests that Western offenses against the Prophet are part of the broader infidel war against Islam. He says that Western nations have intervened in Muslim countries and killed Muslims, and then completed this aggression through mockery of the Prophet. "Do we not have a right to respond to the aggression of the aggressors?" asks Rubaysh.

 

Rubaysh then turns to the widespread demonstrations in support of freedom of speech and the victims of the Paris attacks last month, which AQAP claimed shortly after. "What is amazing," says Rubaysh, "is that you see infidels standing with each other and supporting each other in their aggression against the Muslims and their offending of the Prophet (PBUH). They go out raising the slogan of 'We are Charlie' in solidarity with their fools."

 

Even more shocking to Rubaysh is the fact that some Muslims appear to have supported such demonstrations of solidarity. "Solidarity with anyone who has offended the Messenger (PBUH) and supporting them ... is an offense that ejects its perpetrator from the circle of Islam," he flatly announces. "What is left for a Muslim of his Islam," questions Rubaysh, "if he were to support the infidels in their offense of the Messenger of Islam (PBUH)?"

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(Vid At Link...for those of you who speak Arabic)