Al-Qaeda ruins Islam’s image, says Yemeni official
The Source: SANA'A/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 01/02/2011
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Endowments and Guidance Minister Hamoud al-Hettar has denounced al-Qaeda as contradictory to Islamic virtues and doubted Qaeda’s top two strongmen of having any true Sharia knowledge.
"Al-Qaeda has harmed Islam and Muslims worldwide for it smeared Islam’s real message which calls for freedom, justice and equality", al-Hettar said in an interview with London-based Dar al-Hayat newspaper.
The Yemeni official also doubted Sharia knowledge of both al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden and the terrorist organization’s second most important man Aiman al Thawahri, "Both have graduated from science disciplines, and both do not have any full Sharia scholarly knowledge," al-Hettar said.Pointing out to political interests as the main incentives when, he added that "al-Qaeda’s arm in Yemen and Houthis have united against both Sana’a and Riyadh due to the mutual interests found between them".While al-Qaeda is a Sunni extremist group, the Houthis are rebellions against the Yemeni government."Bin Laden and al-Thawahri have no full understanding of the teachings of al-Sharia, and both are not scholars and cannot be made as reference or followed", he said.In addition, the Yemeni minister said that the spread of al-Qaeda ideology was spread due to ignorance, and those who are gullible, and others who have interests to fulfill.According to him, Ben Laden and al-Thawahri in their best ways have only fragments of Islamic Sharia knowledge whom they employee to fulfill their objectives and interests."The disaster is with those that have the Sharia knowledge but use it to progress their political ambition. There is no prominent religious scholar who sanctioned terrorist organizations, and the biggest evidence is that the Islamic advisory body in the Saudi Arabia criminalizing terrorism"."Yemeni tribes are against extremism and terrorism and will never offer any cover for Qaeda’s operations", al-Hettar added
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