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MEMRI Daily: January 24, 2011 |
The following is research published today from MEMRI’s Special Dispatch Series and the MEMRI TV Project.
*Special Dispatch
Special Dispatch No. 3532—Palestinians/Qatar/Inter-Arab Relations
Qatar and PA Clash over Al-Jazeera Document Leak
In an unprecedented attack on the PA, Qatar's Al-Jazeera channel has published documents allegedly revealing PA concessions regarding the final settlement with Israel; collaboration between Israel and the PA in assassinating Fatah and Hamas operatives; and prior knowledge on the part of PA President Mahmoud Abbas about the Israeli strike on Gaza in 2008.
In response, PA spokesmen accused the Qatari Emir of being behind the publication of the documents, calling upon him to demonstrate the same "transparency" in exposing the affairs of his own country, and to reveal the role of the U.S. military base in Qatar in espionage against Arab countries.
To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4940.htm.
Inquiry & Analysis No. 657—Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project/Europe and the Arab & Muslim World
Islamist Websites in Europe – A General Review Part 2: Sites and Forums in French
By: N. Maruani*
After the publication of reports about Islamist sites in French, including a December 2006 review by MEMRI, the French and Belgian authorities began to monitor and close down websites featuring inciting materials. Today, four years later, some of the inciting sites featured in MEMRI's 2006 report are gone, such as Qibla (qibla.net), while others, such as Voice of the Oppressed (Stcom.net), remain online but no longer have active forums, which were the main platform for incitement. However, new Islamist sites and forums have appeared, more active than the previous ones. These feature news about the Taliban and the fighting on various jihad fronts; subtitled videos of clerics supporting global Jihad, such as Anwar Al-Awlaki; translated texts by prominent contemporary Salafi-jihadi ideologue Sheikh Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi and by prominent medieval scholar Ibn Taymiyya; and various fatwas, calls to jihad, and inciting propaganda. The banner of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated organization Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), which serves as the emblem of global jihad, appears frequently on these sites.
An examination of the sites reveals that their main goals are to promote Islamist ideology and jihad, to establish a connection between French-speaking fundamentalist Muslims and the mujahideen on the jihad fronts, and to solicit donations (most of the sites have at least one section devoted to this).
It should be noted that since French law prohibits incitement on racial or religious grounds, the writers on the sites often find ways to convey their inciting and jihadist messages without openly infringing on the law.
To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4938.htm.
Special Dispatch No. 3531—Egypt/Islam and the West/Conspiracy Theories
Sheik of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyeb: 'The Pope Is Not Bothered When Millions of Muslims Are Killed'
Following are excerpts from an interview with the Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, which aired on Dream 2 TV (Egypt) on January 4, 2011.
To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2765.htm.
Sheik Ahmad Al-Tayyeb: "The division of the Arab world is a goal set [by foreigners]. This wretched scheme has begun to be implemented. Look at what is happening in Iraq, for example, and how they want to divide it into three or four countries. For the sake of this plan..."
To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4939.htm.
*From the MEMRI TV Project
MEMRI TV Clip No. 2764 - Tunisian Uprising: Islamic Scholar Abd Al-Fattah Idris Responds to Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: The Tunisian Who Committed Suicide Was Acting Out of Free Will
Following are excerpts from an interview with Abd Al-Fattah Idris, an Islamic scholar at Al-Azhar University, which aired on Al-Hayat 2 TV on January 18, 2011
To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2764.htm.
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