Tweets harming Palestine issue

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I was the first to write, in Kuwait at least, about the works, books, and sermons of the Palestinian preacher Abdullah Yousef Azzam (1941–1989) and his role in spreading ignorance and superstition, after he left his cause and headed to Afghanistan to fight alongside the ‘Afghan Mujahideen’ against the Russian presence.

Bin Laden considered Azzam one of his teachers, and Azzam was an extremist Salafist Brotherhood thinker, despite his educational background, as he studied agriculture and worked as a teacher, before he decided to study Sharia in Damascus and then Al-Azhar, and he was a believer in the thought of Sayyid Qutb.

Azzam left Palestine some time after the West Bank fell into the hands of the Israelis after the 1967 war. It is said that he participated in military operations, but he left for Jordan and then Saudi Arabia, from where he was recruited to fight in Afghanistan, as America had planned, where he worked as a link between the oil boom countries and the mujahideen.

He succeeded in recruiting fighters and collecting money, and after the defeat of the Soviets, as usually happens between the victors, a dispute arose between him and bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the rest of the leaders, and he was subsequently assassinated by blowing up his car, and it is not known to this day who assassinated him!

Azzam wrote many religious books, the most controversial of which was “The Verses of the Most Merciful in the Afghan Jihad,” which contained a large number of miracles that were “proven” to have occurred to the Mujahideen, and we have already touched on many of them, nearly thirty years ago, after the book gained popularity and approval in the world. Kuwait, which he visited several times,on one of his visits when he was a guest of Al-Qabas.

In our war today with Israel, the phenomenon of Azzam began to be repeated, in a similar manner, as his eldest son, Hudhayfah, who had previously participated in the war with Al-Zarqawi in Iraq in 2003, and with the Brotherhood in Syria, and in a miserable attempt to return to the limelight, published the following tweet, with the text: “ One of God’s saints in Gaza swore that his Kalashnikov machine gun magazine, which contained 30 rounds, fired more than 150 rounds during the clash. And he swore to God that he himself did not believe what his eyes saw. He stood in shock at what had happened. He could not find a logical or rational explanation for what happened.”(!!)

It seems that this is not the only tweet by Hudhayfah, as a Kuwaiti citizen, who appears to be mostly from Hudhayfah’s team, posted the following comment on Hudhaifa’s tweet: God bears witness that I love you for the sake of God, and I hope from God and then from you that you gather these positions of faith from the battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood!

Hudhayfah responded to him in support and promised a series of them! After that, we began to read an increasing number of similar tweets, which harmed the cause and doctrine more than they helped them.

At the time of writing this article, Hudhayfah’s tweet had received more than one and a half million views, and it is unimaginable how harmful it is, especially to the mujahideen, as they do not need to hear these myths as much as they need those who stand with them with money, weapons, science, and knowledge.

If I were in the place of the Israelis, I would not hesitate to distribute the tweet widely, so that the world would know our way of thinking?!!

We go back and repeat: Our conflict with Israel is a civilized and scientific one and the Palestinian issue is too noble for us to drown it with such stories whose veracity has never been proven.

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By Ahmad alsarraf

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