“Jihad is now a
duty!”
By Florian Flade






German salafists have now a favorite issue:
Syria. They collect donations and curse the dictator Assad as "enemy
of Allah". The security forces are alarmed: Syria could become a
new travel destination for jihadists.
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The bloodbath in Syria
has no end. The president Bashar al Assad has allegedly committed a
number of massacres against the civil population. The pictures and
accounts of the eyewitnesses about executions of women and children
spread around the globe and cause horror. While the international
community increases the political pressure on the syrian regime,
german islamists see the arrival of the time for "holy war"
against the dictator Assad. Radical preachers call on through video
messages to jihad.




The german security
forces are alarmed. They are afraid that islamists from the federal
republic could see the conflict in Syria as an occasion to take part
in the fight against the Assad Regime. According to security reports,
radical islamists have still not been registered leaving for Syria.
But this could change soon. "Syria could turn into a destination
for jihadists from abroad", the investigator said to the
newspaper "Die Welt", "The country could possibly turn
into an attractive destination for german islamists in order to
engage in armed jihad."



German islamists were in
the last years traveling in successive waves to Irak, to the border
region between Afghanistan and Pakistan (Waziristan), and to Somalia
in order to undertake trainings in terrorist camps. Syria was up to
this date no attractive destination for belligerent extremists. Since
the country sank in a bloody uprising of the opposition against the
dictator from Damascus, Syria has turned into a hot bed for islamic
fighters. Meanwhile there's a growing number of reports about
jihadists from Irak, the Gulf States, North Africa and Pakistan,
which join the groups of fighters from the opposition.




Meanwhile, the security forces of Germany
register apart from calls from the german salafist circles to support
the brothers in faith of Syria with donations and other material
help, also straightforward calls for jihad. Just like in 1990 and
subsequent years in Bosnia, now they are recruiting voluntary
islamists for jihad. The austrian islamist Mohammed M. AKA “Abu
Usama al-Gharib”, for example, called his followers in a recent
preaching unashamedly on to an armed struggle against Assad.




"Jihad is now a duty!", M. says in
the preaching, which "Welt Online" made available, "Whoever
can go to Syria to wage jihad, he is under obligation to do it! (...)
If you have no money, get it! If you know no path, get informed! Move
with your brothers and sisters and fight for these oppressed ones.
Let's fight for them!" According to the islamist M., whoever
wants to go to Jihad in Syria, needs neither the permission of the
parents nor the legal opinion of an islamic scholar. And he also
says: "It's a duty for everyone, just like the prayer!"




M. left Germany in May after the interior
ministry of Hesse announced that it would deport the preacher after
he had been making callings for jihad. M. lives now with his german
wife in Egypt, from where he continues to distribute audio and video
preachings, which he specifically addresses to his followers in
Germany and Austria.





Besides Mohamed M. The Ex-Rapper Denis C.
(ex Deso Dogg) from Berlin has, according to the informations from
"Welt Online", also made public this weekend an islamic war
song,or Nasheed, in which he calls on for the Jihad in Syria. "Where
do we want to go? Where do we have to go? We want to go to Jihad on
the path of Allah!", C. sings in the music video, which was made
public on the internet. According to C., Assad, the ruler of Syria,
must be annihilated, and the syrian people must be liberated.



Meanwhile, The salafist circles have
organized a new help campaign in order to collect donations to
provide relief for Syria - without calling for jihad. The project
"An-Nusrah" should serve to deliver humanitarian aid for
Syria. Up to this day more than 21.000 euros have supposedly been
collected.




Original source: http://ojihad.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/jetzt-ist-dschihad-pflicht/