1. The Origins of Al Qaeda Perspective

2. Points 1.Started in Afghanistan 2.Driving out the infidel 3. Bin Laden’s mentor 4. Formation of Al Qaeda and a new ideology

3. Answer 1.If a foreign nation enters America, how should the US government respond? 2.If the President of the US asked you to defend the nation would you? 3.If the foreign nation captures 5000 Americans would you help? Should the US government help the 5000? 4.What is your duty as an American?

4. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam 1941-1989 Assassinated in Pakistan Assassination Speculation CIA (US) Mossad (Israel) Other Islamic leaders (Bin Laden) Significance: Fights Soviets in Afghanistan Global Jihad using Qutib’s Pioneering Vanguard Co-Founder of Al Qaeda Writes Defense of Muslim Lands

5. Term Kuffar: Negative qualities of a person. Used by extremists to argue the negative qualities by one is their inability to follow Islamic guidelines for life. Significance: A Kuffar could be one not following Islam or an unbeliever to faith. Thus such forces need to be purged from the person and even society and even the World. Remember it’s about PURIFICATION AND STRICT INTERPRETATION!

6. Kuffar: Negative qualities of a person. Fard Ayn: Individual obligation. Fard Kifays: Communal obligation. If many do it maybe the rest do not have to (possible translation).

7. Chapter 1 (Two Students) Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Goal: How did Azzam use the Quran to justify events in his life, ideology and events occurring in nations with Muslim populations?

8. Quran 40:35 [40:35] “And Joseph did come to you before with clear proofs, but you ceased not to be in doubt concerning that with which he came to you till, when he died, you said: ‘Allah will never raise up a Messenger after him.’ Thus does Allah adjudge as lost those who transgress, and are doubters,

9. Quran 25:78 [25:78] Say to the disbelievers: ‘But for your prayer to Him my Lord would not care for you. You have indeed rejected the truth, and the punishment of your rejection will now cleaveto you.’

10. Quran [5:33] Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,

11. Quran [4:91] You will find others who wish to obtain security from you and [to] obtain security from their people. Every time they are returned to [the influence of] disbelief, they fall back into it. So if they do not withdraw from you or offer you peace or restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you overtake them. And those - We have made for you against them a clear authorization.

12. [40:35] “And Joseph did come to you before with clear proofs, but you ceased not to be in doubt concerning that with which he came to you till, when he died, you said: ‘Allah will never raise up a Messenger after him.’ Thus does Allah adjudge as lost those who transgress, and are doubters. [25:78] Say to the disbelievers: ‘But for your prayer to Him my Lord would not care for you. You have indeed rejected the truth, and the punishment of your rejection will now cleaveto you.’ [5:33] Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment [4:91] You will find others who wish to obtain security from you and [to] obtain security from their people. Every time they are returned to [the influence of] disbelief, they fall back into it. So if they do not withdraw from you or offer you peace or restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you overtake them. And those - We have made for you against them a clear authorization.

13. Quran States [40:35] “And Joseph did come to you before with clear proofs, but you ceased not to be in doubt concerning that with which he came to you till, when he died, you said: ‘Allah will never raise up a Messenger after him.’ Thus does Allah adjudge as lost those who transgress, and are doubters, Azzam Writes

14. Quran States [25:78] Say to the disbelievers: ‘But for your prayer to Him my Lord would not care for you. You have indeed rejected the truth, and the punishment of your rejection will now cleaveto you.’ Azzam Writes

15. Quran States [5:33] Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,

16. Quran States [4:91]You will find others who wish to obtain security from you and [to] obtain security from their people. Every time they are returned to [the influence of] disbelief, they fall back into it. So if they do not withdraw from you or offer you peace or restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you overtake them. And those - We have made for you against them a clear authorization Azzam Writes

17. Born in Jordan 1941 PhD from al-Azhar University, Egypt, in 1973 befriends Qutib family lecturer at Abdulaziz University (1970s), Saudi Arabia, where he influenced possible Wahhab interpreters including Bin Laden Breaks with Palestinian cause because it was more of a secular issue. Soviets invade Afghanistan December of 1979 Writes Declaration of Muslim Lands and calls for a holy war. Establishes MAK (services office) 1989 Soviets defeated (Feb 1989) and the fight goes global. Azzam and Bin Laden Break

18. Possible Azzam Speeches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EarNjgPyN5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlcL_VUaxYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ8hrENwpCY

19. Closure What makes Azzam a strict constructionist? Does this support the slap back thesis?