Recently, I met a Syrian Salafist while speaking to
Leaders of Democracy Fellows about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Islam and human rights violations in Syria. The individual who lives in Syria, and who seems to
sympathize with Jubhat Al- Nusrah (Al-Nusrah Front), drew several distinctions
between Islamic objectives of the global Jihad movement, the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant, and Jubhat Al-Nusrah.
The argument was that these powerful movements in Syria
and beyond attempt to create an Islamic state anchored in Shari’a law, the
teachings of Islam, Muhammad, and Allah. But the difference between Jubhat
Al-Nusrah and ISIL, according to the person, was that the mission of the Jubhat
Al-Nusrah aims at only establishing Islamic social order and an Islamic state
in Syria. Whether this mission spreads to other countries is not a part of
their objectives, though other countries can adopt this political Islamic
platform if they desire……… Regarding these Islamic movements, my
major question is on where human rights stand for them, regardless of the minor
or significant differences between these Islamist oppositional groups. Recently, a seven-year-old boy died because
fighters believed him to be an apostate. According to the Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights, a 15-year-old Syrian boy was also killed in the northern city
of Aleppo in front of his parents because the Islamist groups believed what the
boy said was heretical…..To Read More…..
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