Al-Qaida in its own words by Kepel Milelli

If you want to find out what 'the rules' or Al Qaida really means, the. This book is the right choice. As a knowledgeable Muslim with a lot of study of the Islamic history, I found the references and notes section very useful indeed as it furthered by understandings of the latent and searing resentment felt by Sunnis towards their present plight. Basically, it's everyone else's fault that they find their society struggling and decadent. Too much focus on history of a bygone era will naturally result in such a state of mind. What struck me that all the so called Ulema writing fatwas spearheading the Al-Qaida vanguard were iconoclasts, not Islamic academics. Some had had religious education but had severed their ties after going operational like tasting Jihad firsthand, and others who had had no religious education at all like Zarqawai. This text and their fatwas needs to be widely debated in the Islamic world as it has tapping holes and huge inconsistencies which can easily be pointed out by academia and intellectuals, but for some reason the novel task of countering such spurious fatwas has been left to Western academia again. Isn't it time we start filling holes created by our own instead of simply avoiding them? Ironically, this murjia or avoidance is exactly what Al-Qaida theologians seemed to be so pissed off with. I do find myself sympathising with them on murjia though.......