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	MEMRI Daily: February 25, 2013   MEMRI | MEMRI TV | JIHAD AND TERRORISM THREAT MONITOR | SOUTH ASIA STUDIES PROJECT
	AQAP Mufti Al-Rubaish: The West Fears Muslims Who Try To Instate Shari'a Law  Al-Qaeda Releases MP3 Lectures Urging Muslims To Join Jihad And Be Proud Of Islam: '[Prophet Muhammad's] Female Companions… Dressed Their Children In Their Finest Attire And Sent Them To The Battlefield Of Jihad' To view these reports, you must be a paying member of the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Project (JTTM).  For membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line. MEMRI offers an additional option for jihad and terrorism news – the Global Jihad News (GJN) website. Access is by annual subscription, available for $360 at the MEMRI E-Store.  Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email.  AQAP Mufti Al-Rubaish: The West Fears Muslims Who Try To Instate Shari'a Law In a new audio message, the mufti of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Rubaish, says that the notion of shari'a rule frightens the West, and that is why it declares war on any country or region where Muslims have implemented the shari'a or are striving to do so. He adds that only through jihad and sacrifice will the Muslims succeed in instating shari'a law and freeing the Muslim lands from Western hegemony, and calls upon them to do so. The 7-minute message was apparently released in response to the French intervention in Mali and its attempts to rout out the jihadists there, among other reasons. It was produced by AQAP's media company Al-Malahim, and posted February 23, 2013 on the Al-Qaeda-managed forum Al-Fida. The following are its main points. Ibrahim Al-Rubaish Al-Rubaish states that the "nations of heresy," which have raised up the banner of war against Islam in the current era, are not afraid of Muslims who implement only some commandments of Islam. However, they intensely fear Muslims who implement all of the commandments of the shari'a, including prayer, fasting, jihad and the principle of al-wala wal-bara (allegiance with Muslims and disavowal of non-Muslims). Click here to read the full report. Al-Qaeda Releases MP3 Lectures Urging Muslims To Join Jihad And Be Proud Of Islam: '[Prophet Muhammad's] Female Companions… Dressed Their Children In Their Finest Attire And Sent Them To The Battlefield Of Jihad' On February 20, 2013, Al-Qaeda released audio lectures in Urdu by two of its scholars - Maulana Asim Umar and Ustad Ahmad Farooq. The first audio lecture, titled "The Requirements Of Religion From Women On The Path Of Jihad," is over one hour-long. The second audio lecture, titled "Be Proud Of Your Religion," is 35:46 minutes. In the first lecture, Maulana Asim Umar addresses Muslim women, stressing that during Prophet Muhammad's times women sacrificed their children, brothers, and husbands in the path of jihad. In the second lecture, Ustad Ahmad Farooq explains Islam's standards of love and friendship, arguiAl-Qaeda released audio lectures in Urdu by two of its scholars - Maulana Asim Umar and Ustad Ahmad Farooq.ng that Muslim companions of Prophet Muhammad offered to kill their own brothers and fathers if he ordered them to do so and if they were infidels, not having converted to Islam. Both lectures were released on a jihadi internet forum, and are aimed at audiences in Pakistan, where Urdu is the main spoken language. Maulana Asim Umar: "[Prophet Muhammad's] Female Companions Offered Numerous Sacrifices For This Religion, Sacrificed Their Husbands For This Religion [Of Islam], Dressed Their Children In Their Finest Attire And Sent Them To The Battlefield Of Jihad" In the first audio lecture, Maulana Asim Umar, an Urdu-speaking cleric affiliated with Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, stresses that women were at the forefront of jihad right from the days of early Islam. He states: "When the prophet of Allah, Muhammad, came with the call of Islam and invited people to it, whereas men took part actively in saying yes to this call, the women too were not behind. For the success of this religion, whereas Allah accepted the sacrifice of blood by men… he blessed women too with this honor at the battlefield of jihad…." Click here to read the full report.