Please remember that MEMRI is a 501(c)3 organization and relies on your support to continue to operate. Our end-of-year fundraising campaign is now underway – please consider making a donation. The following is research published today from the MEMRI Special Dispatch Series and TV Project. Special Dispatch No. 4398—Jordan Jordanian Salafi Cleric Sheik Yassin Al-'Ajlouni: The Caliphate Will Be Reestablished in 2024 by the Son of Jordanian King AbdullahFollowing are excerpts from a statement by Jordanian Salafi cleric Sheik Yassin Al-'Ajlouni, which was posted on the Internet on December 13, 2011. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3245.htm. 
Yassin Al-'Ajlouni: "I bring glad tidings to the Islamic nation: The days of the establishment of the Caliphate are near – the Caliphate that will reside in Jerusalem, and the Caliph who will conquer Palestine. 'So when the second warning came to pass, we permitted your enemies to disfigure your faces, and to enter your Temple, as they had entered it before, and to destroy all that fell into their power.' This is the Caliph to whom allegiance will be pledged in Palestine, after he conquers the Arab Peninsula and Persia." 
To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5965.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4397—Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor/Syria Senior Jihadi Cleric Sanctions Bombings in Syria, Calls on Syrians to Take Up Arms against RegimeThe following report is a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). 
The Salafi-jihadi website Minbar Al-Tawhid Wa-Al-Jihad has posted a fatwa by a member of itsshari'a committee, the prominent sheikh Abu Al-Mundhir Al-Shinqiti, in which he proclaims it permissible to carry out violent operations against the Syrian regime, such as blowing up freight trains, even if this means killing Muslims. He urges the Syrians to stop relying on peaceful protests alone, and to launch an armed struggle against the regime in order to topple it. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5964.htm. |