Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah (organisation)

Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah (Arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة‎; English: Adherents to the Sunnah and the community or Followers of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah; alternately transliterated: Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma; ASWJ) is a Sunni Islamic sect of Islam.

For other uses, see Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah.

Today the sect claim to be the chosen sect however do not have the same beliefs, instead each adopt their own set of beliefs - choose to justify through religious texts usually done by institutions.

History

Founded in November 2005 in north London, its head is "Simon" Sulayman Keeler. Also attending the organization's launch were Anjem Choudary, the former head of al-Muhajiroun, Abu Yahya, Abu Izzadeen and Abu Uzair. The group claims up to 1000 members, many of them members of the now-banned groups Al Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect.[1]

ASWJ operates mainly through an invitation-only Internet forum set up in 2006 by Mizanur Rahman called "Followers of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama'aah Muntada",[2] of which Anjem Choudary is a prominent contributor, under the screen name "Abou Luqman". The forum currently has 700 members.[2] A reporter visiting the site found calls for holy war, and recordings of Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and, notably, Omar Bakri Mohammed, the founder of al-Muhajiroun.[3]

In February 2006 ASWJ helped organize the Islamist demonstration outside Danish Embassy in London in 2006.[4]

In November 2006 the BBC programmes File on 4 and Newsnight, in an investigation into the radicalisation of young British Muslims reported that Omar Bakri is regularly broadcasting hate messages against the UK government and non-Muslim people via the Internet, using a range of pseudonyms. His voice was reportedly confirmed by speech analysis experts to be that of Bakri. The BBC penetrated the broadcasts using undercover investigators from the group Vigil.[5]

In December 2006, ASWJ issued a call on one of its websites for Muslims to fight the Ethiopian attack against the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia "financially, physically and verbally".[6] This call was reiterated by Anjem Choudary in early January 2007.[2]

In March 2009 members of the group took part in a protest in Luton at the homecoming parade of British troops returning from Afghanistan.[7]

See also

References
  1. "New group replaces al-Muhajiroun". BBC News Online. BBC Online. BBC. 29 October 2006. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  2. Taher, Abul (14 January 2007). "UK preacher in secret web call for jihad". The Times. Times Newspapers Ltd. Archived from the original on 10 May 2007. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  3. Taher, Abul (29 October 2006). "Veil teacher was obeying a fatwa". The Sunday Times. Times Newspapers Ltd. Archived from the original on 31 October 2006. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  4. Preatoni, Roberto (5 January 2007). "Digital propaganda calling to Jihad". Zone-h. Archived from the original on 8 January 2007. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  5. "Covert preaching of banned cleric". BBC News Online. BBC Online. BBC. 14 November 2006. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  6. Lappin, Yaakov (28 December 2006). "UK website: Join Somalia jihad". Ynetnews. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  7. "Luton parade protesters 'were members of extremist group'". Telegraph Online. Telegraph Media Group Limited. 12 March 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2019.

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