In the name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Praise is to Allah, and peace and blessings of Allah on our Prophet Muhammad and his family ‎‎and companions and those who allied him,‎

To proceed

We followed with bleeding hearts the happenings of the massacre that was committed against ‎our ‎people and brothers in Nigeria in the last few days. That monstrous crime and ugly revenge ‎that ‎was committed against nearly 800 Muslims by demolishing their Masjid and bombing their ‎‎hospital and storming their houses and tampering of the envious Christian Nigerian army with ‎‎their corpses in front of the eyes and ears of the world that boasts about human rights and the ‎values of freedom and false justice.‎

‎“And they did not take vengeance on them for aught except that they believed in Allah, the ‎Mighty, the Praised,” (Al Burooj- Verse 8)‎

And the Christian minority, that is dominating the largely Muslim Nigeria, tried to justify its crime ‎by ‎spreading lies and misrepresenting our Salafi brothers and their allies and supporters from ‎the ‎common people. However, the pictures of the innocent dead Muslims who carried no ‎weapons ‎and the sick, paralyzed and women and children, and the scene of the martyred preacher Shaikh ‎Yusuf (May Allah have mercy on him) with the apparent marks of inhuman torture on his ‎pure ‎body after his arrest, all of it are evidences pointing to the imminent fact that this is an ‎oppressive ‎crusade led by the Christian minority in Nigeria against the majority of nearly 80 million ‎Muslims ‎under the banner of 'Destroy Islam and eradicate its people'‎

But what deadens the heart from regret is that this great slaughter should pass in front of the ‎‎Ummah of Millions from the west to the east, without our witnessing even protests or renounces!‎

In front of this atrocity that has befallen our Muslims brothers in general and our Salafi ‎Mujahideen ‎brothers there specially, at their head the martyred Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf (May ‎Allah have ‎mercy on him), we can not but only declare our condolence and support and our ‎standing beside ‎our brothers as a single hand, and we express our greatest condolence to the ‎families of the ‎martyrs and the injured and we ask Allah the Almighty to support them in their ‎calamity and grant ‎them what's better in lieu of it, and to grant the families of the detained and the ‎martyred with good patience ‎and solace

And we remind them that trial and tribulation is from the Sunnah of Allah in preaching

‎“Alif Lam Mim. (1) Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, We believe, and not be ‎tried? (2) And certainly We tried those before them, so Allah will certainly know those who are ‎true and He will certainly know the liars. (3)” (Al Ankaboot)‎

It must also not escape us to instruct our brothers and beloveds there, to let aside separation ‎and ‎opposition and with the necessity of uniting their ranks and the oneness of their word to ‎stand in a ‎single row in the face of the unbelievers as if they are strong firm holds

And we give them glad tidings that the blood of the martyrs is light and fire, so the blood of the ‎martyred Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf (May Allah have ‎mercy on him) and his martyred brothers will ‎not go waste by the will of Allah, instead it will light the way for the ‎Muslims in Nigeria and it will ‎burn the worshipers of the Cross and it will water the tree of Islam ‎in Nigeria even if the ‎unbelievers hate it

O Allah, grant our brothers patience and solace and aid them and grant them what's better ‎
O Allah grant victory to your Muslim servants in Nigeria against their enemies and be with them ‎‎and not against them
O Allah accept their martyrs and cure their injured and release their prisoners and secure their ‎‎scared
Praise is to Allah and we bear witness that there is no God but He and seek His forgiveness.‎

Al Qaida in the Land of Islamic Maghrib

Monday, 26 Shaban, 1430H corresponding to 17/08/2009‎

Source - Al Fajr Media publications