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Nov 04, 2024
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Turkish Pro-ISIS Preacher Osman Akın, Following His Release From Prison: Allah Commands Us To Wage Jihad; The Disbelievers Attack Muslims Again And Again, We Do Not Accept This

#11604 | 01:43
Source: Online Platforms - "the Ahlak ve Sünnet Magazine on YouTube"

On November 4, 2024, the Ahlak ve Sünnet Magazine YouTube channel uploaded a video of a sermon delivered by pro-ISIS Turkish preacher Osman Akın, also known as Mamoste Osman El-Kurdi. Akın had been arrested in May 2023 during an anti-ISIS crackdown by Turkish authorities, and he was released from prison in May 2024. During his sermon, Akın said that Allah has commanded the Muslims to wage Jihad, he condemned the disbelievers for attacking Muslim societies, and he condemned Muslims who work alongside these disbelievers.

Osman Akın: "We remain today at the same point we were at when this [criminal] case [against me] began. Whatever our creed was, our thought, our ideas, our method... Whatever we said yesterday, we today repeat those same things, and we say them clearly.

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"The Prophet [Muhammad] said: 'I am commanding you five things that Allah commands of you: one, to hear; two, to obey; three, to be a congregation; four, to make hijra; and five, to wage jihad.'

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"We have gone through a difficult process. The disbelievers have struck us again, and again, and again. We cannot accept this. We cannot accept, simultaneously and parallel with the disbelievers, the striking of Muslims. When the disbeliever are attacking the Muslims this much, and you consider yourself a Muslim and say 'I am a Muslim' – how is it that you are [working] in parallel with the disbeliever? Why are you, along with the disbelievers, trying to strike a Muslim society?

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"We do not think with good intentions about those who strike Muslims alongside the disbelievers. Nor do we see good intentions there."

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