Ansar al-Sunnah

12/12/2006

The Iraqi Ansar al-Sunnah organization has claimed credit for many assaults on coalition forces in Iraq and on rival Islamic groups. The terrorist organization's name speaks volumes. It means "Helpers, Friends, and Supporters of the Example." The example they support is of course Muhammad's as it is detailed in the Islamic Hadith, the Sira and Ta'rikh.

According to the oldest Sunnah source, the only biography written about Islam's lone prophet within 200 years of his death, Muhammad was a pedophile, incestuous, adulterous, a rapist, a thief, a liar, an assassin, a slave trader, mass murderer, and ruthless terrorist. Virtually nothing redeeming is said about him in his own scriptures - the Sunnah and Qur'an. Muhammad's Sunnah legacy is terror and his Qur'an orders Muslims to fight and kill non-Muslims and peaceful hypocritical apostate Muslims until the entire would submits to Allah and Islam. So all those who are "Friends and Supporters of the Sunnah" are bad people - they are terrorists.

Based upon its name, we should not be surprised that Ansar al-Sunnah is an Iraqi jihadist group dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic state based on Sharia Law in Iraq. Consistent with the Qur'an's message, they believe that jihad is obligatory for Muslims. The group's membership is composed of Ansar al-Islam members, Tawhid and Jihad operatives, and salafi Iraqi Sunnis.

While it is hard to distinguish between the terrorist organizations, Ansar al-Islam and Ansar al-Sunnah claim to have carried out over 300 jihadist attacks since May, 2003, killing more than 1,200 people. They are responsible for the kidnapping of the Nepalese contractors which garnered considerable press, as well as the beheading of an Iraqi military officer, a tape of which was distributed on the internet in November, 2004.