By Alexander Athos.
Jordanian’s Anti-Terrorism Laws came into effect in 2006 after the 2005 Aman hotel bombings by Sajida al-Rishawi, her husband and the Wahhabi Salafi terrorists from Iraq then called Al Qaeda in Iraq.
The laws were amended in 2014 to address radicalization by Wahhabi Salafi fanatics bolstering ISIS and threatening security in Jordan either in financing, activity on the ground or in cyberspace.
The government has come to realize the dangers of the fanatical Salafi’s even though they once used Salafism (then milder than the Wahhabi strain) to counter leftists and nationalists who sought to undermine the monarchy.
Extremist ideas from Jam’iyyah al-Ikhwan al Muslimin (The Society of Muslim Brothers) and its ideologues like the Wahhabi Salafi Muhibb Al-Din Al-Khatib (close associate of Hasan al-Banna) have to be countered throughout the Arab world if ISIS and AL Qaeda are to be defeated.
Saudi Wahhabi influence has taken the pious religiosity of the Salafi’s and turned them into zealous militant monsters of the ISIS ilk. The burning alive of Jordanian First Lieutenant Muadh al-Kasasbeh whose plane was downed in December last year will strengthen the hand of the government against Jihadists and other Salafi extremists in Jordan.
President Obama still dodges the naming of the terrorists as Wahhabi Salafi and so exposes Americans to the danger of a growing Fifth Column of Wahhabi Salafi fanaticsin the US. Instead, “Whatever ideology they’re operating off of, it’s bankrupt,” Obama told reporters.
“Before his death, Kasasbeh was forced to reveal the names and workplaces of many fellow pilots in the Royal Jordanian Air Force. Their photographs appeared at the end of a 23-minute video depicting his death, along with an offer of a bounty of 100 gold dinars (roughly $20,000) for each pilot killed.”
Though typically dismissed by media and governments as being unrepresentative of Islam, it nevertheless is the conservative creed of the ruling family in Saudi Arabia and so has become the world wide de facto standard for new mosques paid for by Saudi petro dollars.
Its virulent radical, puritanical, anti-Western, militant, misogynistic, blood thirsty ideology has been inspiring militant Islamic extremism across the globe including lone wolves, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram.
