ABDULLAH YUSUF AZZAM
(Abdullah Yusuf Azam)
Some Muslims claim that Jihad really means a struggle that does not necessarily involve weapons, killing, and may be directed at mastery of self and social improvements in a society. However, the majority of Muslims in the world seem to accept the description given be Assam. In 1989 Assam was fomenting his extremist view of Islam in Pakistan where he had his headquarters when a bomb blew up killing Azzam and his two sons. It is not known whether it was an accident with the explosives they were storing for terrorist activities or they were killed by another Islam faction. Sunni and Shiite are often at each other’s throats.
Just like Spain and Persia, the Arabs by fighting lost not only more land, but also lost the respect of most of the non-Muslim War. The conscious decision to choose an irrational strategy that would cause loss of life, land and respect has none-the-less repeatedly been chosen by the Arab culture. much to its detriment. Azzam is one of the few Arabs to admit this to the non-Islamic World.
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam also known as the Father of Global Jihad was a Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian and founding member of al-Qaeda. Azzam preached both defensive and offensive jihad by Muslims to help the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet invaders.
