International Journal on Criminology Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 2016 | Page 50

International Journal on Criminology
The soldiers of the Islamic group, the only clear-sighted legal emblem in this
land, with permission from all-mighty God, remain on the path of struggle against
apostates, unbelievers, and impostors, by torturing them, mutilating them, and
mistreating them, by destroying them and decapitating them, to come closer to God
on earth and in the heavens. 42
Didn’t the Prophet blind the eyes and cut off the feet and hands of apostates and
throw them into a chasm until they died? 43
Know that tradition and Sunna will be followed at all costs. The Caliph Abou Bakr
El Sedik addressed a message to Khaled Ibn El Oualid to tell him not to hesitate to
mutilate Taliha and his companions. Khaled Ibn El Oualid, acting to avenge Muslims,
proceeded to put his captives to death: some were burned, others stoned or thrown
from the mountain tops. They then had a human being decapitated and boiled the
head three times on the orders of Khaled Ibn El Oualid. What Ali Ibn Abi Taleb did
with the khaouaridj 44 is the best example. He burned them and did not hesitate to
mutilate them. We are therefore following this Salafist tradition…If we find other
Sunna and other traditions more intense in terror, we will not hesitate to follow them
and revive them to benefit from God’s satisfaction. We are determined to fight and
mutilate; we are on the path of our ancestors.”
Abou El Moundhir 45 said: “We will remain in this tradition, to follow the example
of Khalid and Abu Bakr Sedik and the other companions of the Prophet, who did
not hesitate to kill, mutilate, and burn, but we are not satisfied, because we have not
yet reached the same number of dead as they have. In a single battle, the Battle of
Yamama, against the Beni Hanifa, they killed almost 10,000 people, and some say
the number was 21,000, and that they killed 14,000 in a day. By himself and in one
battle, Ali Ibn Abi Taleb killed almost 400 khaouaridj whom no one could identify
because they had lost their heads.
These heads served as steps in the Great Mosque of Damas! God said in verse 39 of
El Anfal: “Fight them so that there is no sedition and so that the entire religion is not
sedition.” He also said in verse 10 of El Touba: ‘Fight them, God will torture them
using your hands and the malediction will be cast upon them.” 46
42
A verbatim statement of the terrorist Abou El Moundhir, as printed in the magazine El Djamaa,
issue 13.
43
Statements in the review El Djamaa.
44
Those who moved away from the tradition of the Prophet after his death remained Muslim but
according to some conformists, they adopted different practices.
45
A terrorist recruited into the group to act as official mufti.
46
This terrorist reasoning is omnipresent in the GIA groups; it represents the essence of the process
of legitimation of barbaric acts. This chapter was transcribed in full as it appeared in their subversive
magazines and propaganda documents used to indoctrinate the elements of the sect, as reported in the
presentation by Ahmed Zerouk in the Algiers colloquium mentioned above.
49