The jordanian game

Aasim al-Barqawi well-known as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi of Jordanian nationality. And despite the fact that his influence has vanished and come to an end more or less and praise be to God, we nonetheless have wanted in this statement to clarify our position on the man.This is so in order to fulfil the duty, and fulfil the trust of history and in order to advise the Ummah, and to excuse the one who still does not know the state of affairs of a man by whom falsehood and attacks have reached a great level that requires from us this position. 

...As for the case with Barqawi, how easy it is to find him applying expressions of takfir, collaboration and betrayal in a clear resemblance with the manhaj of the innovators of the Khawarij. And he does that merely for imaginary suppositions and deep deductions and news of news agencies that transmit the thin and the fat and mix the truth with falsehood, and intend to rouse the follower and not investigate the truth. And the state of affairs has got to point that he cites as evidence fake unknown identities for his pronouncements upon which the gangs of takfir and ihtitab rely to commit their crimes. 

...His apparent inclination to the Khawarij group: he showed on one of the occasions a type of criticism of the Dawla group when they attacked him personally and contravened him on the one hand, and in accordance with the policy of his country on the other, and especially after his mediation for the release of the Jordanian pilot 'Muadh al-Kasasbeh.' 

...And let us not forget his stance towards 'Turki Binali'- one of their heads and their lieutenants in error and Kharijism. 

...And naturally let us not forget his bad impact on the Libyan jihad in the pinnacle of the attack of the tyrant Haftar and his militias on the mujahideen there. 

...And what we have said about his not being the sheikh of jihad, we say it regarding Tawheed likewise, for the manhaj of Tawheed is the manhaj derived from the principles of the Ahl al-Sunna not of the principles of the innovators and their chirpings. And Barqawi in this consideration is not the sheikh of Tawheed nor its exclusive trustee nor its reference authority. For the Tawheed with which our sayyid Muhammad (SAWS) was sent and which we understand from the Book of our Lord and the Sunna of our Prophet (SAWS) and the manhaj of our just predecessors (may God be pleased with him), is completely distant from the innovative manhaj of Tawheed that Barqawi brings forth in hiss books and publications.

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And as for Barqawi: we disavow him and his manhaj, he is not of us and we are not of him and we are not on his way. And we distinguish between his innovative manhaj in Tawheed and the manhaj of Tawheed that we have received from the people of 'Ilm previously and in succession, and it is what we teach thanks be to God- relying on God alone and drawing on the books of our just predecessors (may God be pleased with them). 

So we disavow to God the manhaj of Barqawi and his way, and we deem Tawheed and the manhaj of Tawheed and the manhaj of truth and the religion of God to be far above being as Barqawi displays it.

General Shari'i Council Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham Saturday 23 Safr 1442 AH

(translated by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi)

Parole dure che intervengono dopo una serie di attacchi da parte di Al Maqdisi orientati a smascherare la collaborazione tra Hayat Tahrir, MIT e coalizione. Si tratta di accuse gravi arrivate in un momento in cui HTS sta portando a termine operazioni importanti contro Daesh e Hurras al Deen caratterizzate anche da arresti di foreign fighters di peso.

L'elemento interessante di questa ennesima schermaglia tra Al Maqdisi e il consiglio shariatico di Hayat Tahrir, è che i toni forti vengono in soccorso di una guerra che non è più tra fazioni jihadiste o grosse personalità. E' uno scontro tra agenzie d'intelligence e governi.

La Giordania rischia di rimanere schiacciata da difficoltà rese ancora più evidenti dall'emergenza Covid.

Al Maqdisi, passato dallo status di "più grande ideologo vivente" attribuitogli da esperti e commentatori occidentali, a guru dei circoli jihadisti social, ha allargato il tiro rispetto al passato.

L'intelligence giordana se ne serve solitamente per raddrizzare equilibri pericolosi per il riverbero che questi possono avere sul panorama casalingo e anche per assecondare le richieste degli alleati.

Le ultime uscite sembrano avere un input emiratino-israeliano.