Al-Maqdisi vs. His Disciple Al-Zarqawi
/ MEMRI, 11 Sep 2005
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA23905
Y.Yehoshua
"In the past two years a religious dispute has developed between Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and his spiritual mentor Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi.(1) It has focused on the question of the legitimacy of certain Jihad operations in Iraq, and in particular on the question of the religious legitimacy of attacking Muslims, of attacking Shiites, and of attacking non-combatant non-Muslims.
The dispute began with Al-Maqdisi criticizing certain methods of Jihad in Iraq. In a July 2004 epistle to the Jihad fighters in Iraq, issued from his Jordanian prison cell, Al-Maqdisi criticized the harm being done to Muslim civilians in Iraq, which, he asserted, was not justified by Shari'a law."
