Eli Karlsruhen liittovaltion tuomioistuimen erään syyttäjän mukaan tekijä Issa Al H. on vakaumukseltaan ISIS-mielinen, ja hän "jakaa ulkomaisen terroristijärjestön (ISIS) ideologian", ja tuon "radikaalin islamilaisen vakaumuksensa" perusteella päätti "tappaa mahdollisimman suuren määrän epäuskoisia" Solingenin 650-vuotispäivänä pidetyillä monimuotoisuuden festivaaleilla ["Festival of Diversity"] (huutaen samalla "allahu akbar" kuten eräästä poliisiraportista ilmenee).Suspect in fatal knife attack in Germany was motivated by ISIS terror group, prosecutors say
A 26-year-old Syrian man who turned himself in to police on Sunday after allegedly saying he was responsible for the Solingen knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded was motivated by the Islamic State terror group, German prosecutors said Sunday.
A judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe ordered Issa Al H. held pending further investigation and a possible indictment after federal prosecutors said that he shared the radical ideology of the Islamic State extremist group — and was acting on those beliefs when he stabbed his victims repeatedly from behind in the head and upper body.
His last name wasn't released due to German privacy rules.
He "shares the ideology of the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State" and on the basis of his "radical Islamic convictions" decided "to kill the largest possible number of unbelievers" at the festival, the Office of the Federal Prosecutor said in a statement.
The suspect is a Syrian citizen who had applied for asylum in Germany, police confirmed to The Associated Press news agency.
On Saturday, the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for the attack, without providing evidence. The extremist group said on its news site that the attacker targeted Christians and that he carried out the assaults Friday night "to avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere." The claim couldn't be independently verified.
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Valotettakoon siis hieman, että tekijänä lienee ollut syyrialainen salafisti-jihadisti, jonka ideologiset juuret löytyvät islamilaista puhdasoppineisuutta korostavasta wahhabismista sekä qutbismista [In the Shade of the Quran (1951-1965), Milestones (1964)].
Professor Bernard Haykel, director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University:
Mohammed Al Jarman, senior graduate researcher at the Qatar Foundation:"The Islamic State's religious genealogy comes from 'Jihadi Salafism', a theological current that is very old in Islam that is quite literalist.
"[Followers are] extremely rigorous, and condemn other Muslims who don't share their theology. That gives them the hard edge when it comes to violence, because they can justify it theologically.
"Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab [1703–1792] is in that Salafist tradition. He was a religious reformer in Arabia who was able to create a religious movement that ended up creating a state.
"He saw that Muslims had deviated from the 'true' message of Islam; not praying properly or at all, or engaging in practices that he felt were violations of the faith.
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"Eventually he was able to connect with the leader of the al-Saud family in 1744. That alliance had very strong and lasting effects.
IS has destroyed numerous cultural artefacts and monuments of historic significance across Iraq and Syria.
"He believed there is a pure version of the faith, and that if one goes back to it, one is guaranteed salvation in the hereafter, but also in life God will give you all the things he promised.
"The first Saudi State, based on this Wahhabi faith, seemed to confirm his message because of the political and military success it had throughout the 18th Century and 19th Century where it conquered most of Arabia.
"Once a town was conquered he would appoint teachers to educate people in his version of the faith. He wrote a number of short books that were the basis for the teaching, books that are used by ISIS today.
"ISIS claims that the Saudi state has deviated from the true beliefs of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and that they are the true representatives of the Salafi or Wahhabi message."
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Ahmed Ali, a Shi'a Muslim who grew up in Saudi Arabia:Since the emergence of al-Qaeda and the “Islamic State”, there has been an explosion of interest in the role of “Wahhabi” thought in the formation, evolution and legitimization of the Jihadi trend. Interest in the ideological roots of the Jihadi trends started at the beginning of the 1990s, but the insistence on linking Jihad to Wahhabism only came after the 11 September, 2001 terrorist attacks. This grew even more following the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
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The main issues he [Sayyid Qutb] rigorously and seriously tackled were those of Islamic identity, loyalty and the superiority of Muslims over non-Muslims. He also addressed issues pertaining to the Shariah (Islamic principles of law), the necessity to refer to it as the supreme law and to reject any other system of legislation. Furthermore, he spoke of emulating the behavior of the Prophet Mohammed as the perfect individual role model and the first Islamic society as the ideal society.
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Sayyid Qutb was perhaps, inadvertently, most influential in adapting Wahhabism towards the Jihadi trend. Noted for his literary prowess, he redacted many principles and ideas using a modern style and made them more contemporary, accessible, and in line with present-day usage. Despite the universality of concepts such as identity, superiority and ascendency, their influence on Jihadis remained local and limited to Egypt. The transformation of these ideas into a Jihadi movement with a global outlook did not come to fruition until 1990.
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The second track: the Wahhabi historical record
This refers to real historical events in the first Saudi state as documented in two famous chronicles: Inwan Al-majd Fi Tarihk Najd (The History of Najd) by ibn Bishr and Tarikh Ibn Bisher (The History of Najd) by ibn Ghannam. These documents carefully record details of events, behavior, decisions and attitudes, together with the letters exchanged between M.B.A. [Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb] and his military leaders and his enemies. Reading these reports and correspondences carefully, it becomes clear that the expansion of Takfir (excommunication) and the widespread and lax justification of homicide was the norm at the time.
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This phenomenon recurred in the activities and behaviour of ISIS which is known for its laxity in relation to takfeer [excommunication (تكفير)] and the spilling of blood. ... ISIS supporters used second track literature retrospectively to justify and glorify their actions. Conversely, ISIS opponents used the same literature to demonize Wahhabism.
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The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
The ‘Islamic State’ is seen as an extension of al-Qaeda but there is a clear difference in their ideology, methodology and vision. ISIS are more extreme in Takfir and less stringent in legislating against homicide. ISIS also believe in the creation of a real political entity with full legal, military, economic and social powers on the ground. Al-Qaeda’s view, however, was to postpone the establishment of such an authority until the existing world order is dismantled.
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ISIS introduced its philosophy in stages, as explained by the prominent theorist Abubaker Naji in his book, Idarat Attawahosh (The Management of Savagery). Whilst it is true that the book contains no quotations from Wahhabi literature, the practices it calls for are rationalized using similar justifications found in the academic discourse. ...
More broadly, it seems ISIS went beyond using the references of the academic track of the Wahhabi movement and sought to emulate the practices of the first Saudi state. ISIS justified many of its deeds with examples from the actions of the Wahhabi army and its leaders during the life of M.B.A.
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Q: If you go to school in Saudi Arabia, what do you learn about people who are not followers of Wahhabi, of the prophet?
The religious curriculum in Saudi Arabia teaches you that people are basically two sides: Salafis [Wahhabis], who are the winners, the chosen ones, who will go to heaven, and the rest. The rest are Muslims and Christians and Jews and others.
They are either kafirs [halventava nimitys ei-muslimeista, "kiittämättömät muslimien jumalalle" ], who are deniers of God, or mushrak [polyteistit], putting gods next to God, or enervators ["liudentajat", (elin)voiman vähentäjät], that's the lightest one. The enervators of religion who are they call the Sunni Muslims who ... for instance, celebrate Prophet Mohammed's birthday, and do some stuff that is not accepted by Salafis.
And all of these people are not accepted by Salafi as Muslims. As I said, "claimant to Islam." And all of these people are supposed to be hated, to be persecuted, even killed. And we have several clergy -- not one Salafi clergy -- who have said that against the Shi'a and against the other Muslims. And they have done it in Algeria, in Afghanistan. This is the same ideology.
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Q: Can you show me an example of what the religious teaching is in the schools?
Well, here, this is a book, hadif, for ninth grade. Hadif is a statement of Prophet Mohammed. This is a book that start for ninth graders. This is talking about the victory of Muslims over Jews. This is a hadif that I truly believe it's not true, as a Muslim:
"The day of judgment will not arrive until Muslims fight Jews, and Muslim will kill Jews until the Jew hides behind a tree or a stone. Then the tree and the stone will say, 'Oh Muslim, oh, servant of God, this is a Jew behind me. Come and kill him.' Except one type of a tree, which is a Jew tree. That will not say that." This is taught for 14-year-old boys in Saudi Arabia.
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