This year's Eid al-Adha, Islam's festival of sacrifice, will be celebrated amid a escalating war of words fought on the Internet between al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. On the eve of what is considered one of Islam's holiest days, which coincides with the end of the annual Haj pilgrimage, two prominent al-Qaeda leaders have both assailed the Brotherhood for what they say is it's betrayal of Islamist principles.
Al-Qaeda Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, fired the first verbal salvo when on a video message broadcast by Qatar-based TV network Aljazeera on 6 January, he accused the Egyptian chapter of the Brotherhood of serving Washington's interests. "They (the Brotherhood) said they won 30 seats, now they say they have won 80 and in five years time they will say 100. And so goes
strategy to conceed them some space," he said, referring to the Brotherhood's decision to take part in the Egyptian polls.
The Brotherhood spokesman added that his organisation believed in the use of jihad, or holy war, but only in contexts "like Iraq and Palestine" of self-defence against external attacks.
Just days later, in an audio message posted on the Internet, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq also raged against what he saw as the Brotherhood's treachery. "How can anyone choose any other path but that of Jihad? They (the Brotherhood) have chosen to enter parliament and accept the constitution. Well, they are deviants," he said.
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Does anyone know what the hell is this Muslim Brotherhood?