In an audiotape released today, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said that moderate Islamist factions in Egypt and Tunisia were to blame for the recent political problems in those countries.
In Egypt in particular, Zawahiri faulted the elected Muslim Brotherhood government as “too conciliatory,” suggesting that their willingness to make concessions played a big role in the July coup that ousted them from power.
Zawahiri called on more radical Islamist factions in Egypt to oust the military junta and restore the nation to Islamist rule, without the democratic “weakness” that typified the elected government.
Zawahiri also criticized the Ennahda Party, the ruling party in Tunisia which has agreed to hand over power to an interim government after the assassination of an opposition MP. Ennahda, likewise a moderate Islamist faction, was blamed for the growing violence caused by more radical factions.
In contrast with such religious conservative parties, al-Qaeda eschews political involvement and insists on backing violent takeover of nations.
”al-Qaeda eschews political involvement…
backing violent takeover of nations.”
Yes, but in many respects just as criminal is a secular democratic and political Party. For it seeks to rule government for the glory of having a monopoly on the use of force and violence, establishes a fake morality that glorifies and enriches High Society and during time of war commits collateral murder of civilians a million times worse then any group of terrorist, actually commits the vengeance that be the root cause of terrorists.
It'd been my impression before the assassination of Al-Jabari that Israel would target moderates –possibly as a strategy to sustain perpetual 'conflict;' a cascade of newly promoted excuses to kill more. Well that'd be an interesting coincidence with AQ rhetoric blaming 'moderate islamists.' 'Removing,' targeting, or stigmatizing those would seem to lend itself to perpetual violence. Perhaps AQ and Israel have more in common.
Also interesting that AQ's apparent figurehead would say this not long after minor cuts in aid to Egypt. If the cuts also represented USG distancing from the junta, is Zawahiri punctuating it? In the Corbett-Edmonds Gladio-B series, Sibel Edmonds identified Zawahiri as intel.