Birth of an Idea

The al-Qaida had developed from a lot more than just an overnight ideology and method of fighting the enemies of the Islamic world, but came a long way from recruiting Palestinians from refugee camps or people who thought had no better future than going for the great cause-Jihad in the path of God-.

The ideology itself of killing yourself in the path of god had not taken place until after the Gulf War. Although, most analyst might disagree to a certain extent and argue that the suicide bombers were happening in the 80s as well the 90s.

Committing suicide in the path of god was not a feasible way in the 80s at all. Arabs during the great cash flow of the 80s believed that a suicide mission was a means used by communists and ultra socialist groups that had existed during the development and or saturation of the PLO and other minor Palestinian Organisations at the time. Imams were against 2 major events during the 80s, the first was the Iraqi Iranian War, and the second was the Lebanese civil war.

Amongst Muslim fighters and future fighters the idea of killing a Muslim by a Muslim was an absolute forbidden and Harram, according to the text of all conventional Muslims. The big question was the Iraq Iran war and the people that were dying in vane at the time. The second most common means of fight that was also rejected was a suicide bombing in the path of God. This ideology had to wait for a major event to push the Muslim youth to accept blowing themselves in hostile grounds or land of jihad.

The fatwa at the time of the wars was obvious, no killing other Muslims and there is no Takfir –deciding or calling another believer a non-believer or kafir- so what went wrong?

The question is what went right for Al-Qaida and toppled the entire world against our freedom was simple. The wars stopped, Iraq and Iran stopped fighting and Lebanon had stopped after the Syrians took over the Militias in Beirut, Lebanon. Now the question was to assess the situation.

During the 80s there was another war going at the time of the Lebanese and the Iraqi, and that was the Afghani war. The Mujahidin in Afghanistan had all the thumbs up from the entire world to defend their land. Religious teachers were giving their support to the Afghani Mujahidin and all the students were getting all the belief to follow in their footsteps. So the idea was getting saturated but the action was yet to come?

A Muslim growing up in Jordan, Egypt Syria and the Gulf states was bombarded by ideas and no action until the 1990s.

It was a can of worm or a simple disaster waiting to happen??