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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26 year-old brother of the second Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had a YouTube page where he posted religious videos, including a video of Feiz Mohammad, a fundamentalist Australian Muslim preacher who rails against the evils of Harry Potter. Among those videos is one dedicated to the prophecy of the Black Banners of Khurasan which is embraced by Islamic extremistsparticularly Al Qaeda. The videos posted on what appears to be Tsarnaev's YouTube page may shed light on the motivations for the attack on the Boston Marathon. The prophecy states that an invincible army will come from the region of "Khurasan," a large portion of territory in central Asia.
"This is a major hadith (reported saying of the prophet Muhammad) that jihadis use, it is essentially an end-time prophecy," says Aaron Zelin, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy "This is definitely important in Al Qaeda's ideology." In The Black Banners, former FBI agent Ali Soufan's book about his pursuit of Al Qaeda that is named after this prophecy, Soufan describes the prophecy this way:
Khurasan is a term for a historical region spanning northeastern and eastern Iran and parts of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and northwestern Pakistan. Because of the hadith, jihadists believe that this is the region from which they will inflict a major defeat against their enemiesin the Islamic version of Armageddon.
The older Tsarnaev seems to have posted the video four months ago under the username "muazseyfullah." According to Zelin, "Mu'az is usually a name," and "Sayf Allah means sword of God." Here is the video:
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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/boston-bombing-suspect-posted-video-al-qaeda-prophecy-youtube
cali
(114,904 posts)contemplating the backlash against innocents.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)before these two dumb asses were identified.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Holy Shit. Fundies everywhere intent on whacking each other and everyone else.
"According to the prophecies of prophet Muhammad, a non-stop army will rise from the land of Khorasan holding Black Flags of Islam in the end times. This army will conquer several occupied lands of Muslims till it reaches to Jerusalem. Then it will pledge its allegiance to Imam al Mahdi..." http://blackflags1.blogspot.com
I did my graduate degree on millenarianism which today encompasses more than just Christian eschatology and historically speaking, for obvious reasons, it's a mindset that can lead to a broad spectrum of crazy acts.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)Now where have I seen THAT before?
all american girl
(1,788 posts)Do they all read the same strange book?
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)blm
(112,920 posts)Some delusional forces in both religions take it all way too far.
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)ultra-right-wing fundamentalists within EVERY branch of religion that are responsible for all of the "faith-inspired" violence throughout the world.