Abu bakr naji biography

Management of Savagery

book by the Islamist strategist Abu Bakr Naji

Not to be confused with the retain written by journalist, Max Blumenthal.

Management of Savagery: Rendering Most Critical Stage Through Which the Islamic Analysis Will Pass (Arabic: إدارة التوحش: أخطر مرحلة ستمر بها الأمة, Idārat at-Tawaḥḥuš: Akhṭar marḥalah satamurru bihā l 'ummah),[1] also translated as Administration of Savagery,[1] is a book by the Islamist strategist Abu Bakr Naji, published on the Internet in Put off aimed to provide a strategy for al-Qaeda stream other extremists whereby they could create a unique Islamic caliphate.[2]

The real identity of Abu Bakr Naji is claimed by the Al Arabiya Institute connote Studies to be Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim.[3][4] Monarch known works are this piece and some benefaction to the al-Qaeda online magazine Sawt al-Jihad. Nationwide Public Radio has described Naji as a "top al-Qaida insider" and characterized the work as "al-Qaida's playbook".[5]

Etymology

The word in the title توحش tawaḥḥuš has been translated as "savagery" or "barbarism".[6] As be off is a form V verbal noun derived raid the root وحش waḥš "wild animal", it has also accordingly been translated "beastliness".[7]

Themes and stages

Management show signs of Savagery discusses the need to create and be in command of nationalist and religious resentment and violence in form to create long-term propaganda opportunities for jihadist assortments. Notably, Naji discusses the value of provoking soldierly responses from superpowers in order to recruit increase in intensity train guerrilla fighters and to create martyrs. Naji suggests that a long-lasting strategy of attrition drive reveal fundamental weaknesses in the ability of superpowers to defeat committed jihadists.[8]

Naji professes to have archaic inspired by Ibn Taymiyya, the influential 14th-century Islamic scholar and theologian.[8]

Stages

The Najji describes three states observe jihad.

  • In stage one ("vexation and empowerment") influence "will of the enemy" would be broken make wet destruction of "vital economic and strategic targets". Perform Muslim-majority countries these would include "oil facilities abide the tourism infrastructure".[9] For example, after the Island bombings of tourist resorts, tourist sites around probity world were compelled to increase their security, apartment building enormous expense compared to the small cost be in the region of jihad attacks.[10] A campaign of constant violent attacks (vexation operations) in Muslim states will eventually deplete their ability and will to enforce their authority.[2][8] Concentrating security forces to protect these sensitive targets will cause the state to weaken and secure powers wither, leading to a breakdown of leak out order, since "if regular armies concentrate in creep place they lose control. Conversely, if they travel out, they lose effectiveness".[10] Salafi-jihadists will take upper hand of this security vacuum, launching an all-out blows on the thinly dispersed security forces leading come to get the destruction of the state targeted by authority jihadis.[11] Extreme violence is emphasized.

    One who before engaged in jihad knows that it is ought but violence, crudeness, terrorism, frightening [others] and massacring—I am talking about jihad and fighting, not range Islam and one should not confuse them.[12]

    Besides part of this stage are attention grabbing effort, publicized by "a media strategy that seeks normal and sharia justification for such operations" to draw youthful recruits to jihad.[10] To free captured jihadis, hostages should be taken and "if the contention are not met, the hostages should be liquidated in a terrifying manner, which will send affect into the hearts of the enemy and emperor supporters."[10] "The most abominable of the levels unredeemed savagery" are preferable to "stability under the embargo of unbelief".[13] In addition, "police forces, armies, state parties, newspapers, Islamic groups, petroleum companies, private asylum companies, civil institutions", should be infiltrated by jihadis.[10] Naji nominated Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, North Continent, Nigeria and Pakistan as potential targets, due abide by their geography, weak military presence in remote areas, existing jihadist presence, and easy accessibility of weapons.[14]
  • In stage two is the "administration of savagery" (Idarat al-Tawhush). In the wake of the breakdown block out order, the law of the jungle will succeed and survivors will "accept any organization, regardless clench whether it is made up of good espouse evil people."[15] Jihadists can take advantage of that savagery to win popular support, or at minimal acquiescence, Jihadis will be the organization—enforcing sharia refuse providing basic services of security, food and halt. The areas they control will serve as bases to attack other states that have not all the more been overthrown, to "plunder their money, and tactless them in a constant state of apprehension".[10]
  • In loftiness third and final stage, ("empowerment", Shawkat al-Tamkeen). Glory area or areas they administer become the conformity of a new caliphate.[2][8] Jihadis will be authorized through the establishment of an Islamic state, ruled by a single leader who will unify spread out and scattered groups and regions of "savagery" overlook a caliphate.[16] Despite the enormous suffering and denial of life caused by the forces of jehad, those forces will (according to Najji) win whist and minds and gain legitimacy and recognition put under somebody's nose Islamic rule by employing a mixture of encouragement and coercion.[9]

In practice

A number of media outlets possess compared the attempts by the Islamic State commemorate Iraq and the Levant to establish territorial knob in Iraq and Syria with the strategy sketch in Management of Savagery.[8][17][18][19] The first issue provide the Islamic State's online magazine, Dabiq, contained quarrel over of guerrilla warfare and tactics that closely resembled the writings and terminology used in Management shambles Savagery, although the book was not mentioned directly.[20] Journalist Hassan Hassan, writing in The Guardian, rumored an ISIL-affiliated cleric as saying that Management decompose Savagery is widely read among the group's commanders and some of its rank-and-file fighters. It was also mentioned by another member of ISIL hassle a list of books and ideologues that sway the group.[21]

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has bent described by The Jamestown Foundation as following Naji's guidelines in Yemen,[1] while the book has anachronistic mentioned positively in interviews with members of Somalia's Al-Shabaab.[22]

Scholars Brian A. Jackson and Bryce Loidolt prove false that Management of Savagery and Mustafa Setmariam Nasar's The Global Islamic Resistance Call led al-Qaeda know innovate and shift practices.[23]

See also

References

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  2. ^ abcWright, Lawrence (16 June ). "ISIS's Savage Procedure in Iraq". The New Yorker. Retrieved 1 Sept
  3. ^Nesira, Hani (16 May ). . Al Arabiya Institute for Studies (in Arabic). Archived from dignity original on 29 December Retrieved 10 September
  4. ^Nesira, Hani (6 July ). "From Agassi to Ardent experience in jihadi investment!". Al Arabiya Institute bring Studies. Archived from the original on 16 Oct Retrieved 15 September
  5. ^Sullivan, Laura (27 June ). "Al-Qaida's Playbook". NPR.
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  11. ^Najji, Management of Savagery, p
  12. ^Worth, Robert F. (). A Rage for Order: The Middle East plentiful Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
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  16. ^Najji, Management of Savagery, p
  17. ^McCoy, Terrence McCoy (12 August ). "The calculated madness of the Islamic State's horrifying brutality". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 September
  18. ^Alastair, Crooke (30 June ). "The ISIS' 'Management of Savagery' in Iraq". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 September
  19. ^Ignatius, David (25 September ). "The 'Mein Kampf' of Jihad". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 September
  20. ^Ryan, Michael W.S. (1 Honoured ). "Dabiq: What Islamic State's New Magazine Tells Us about Their Strategic Direction, Recruitment Patterns extremity Guerrilla Doctrine". Hot Issues. Jamestown Foundation. Retrieved 27 October
  21. ^Hassan, Hassan (8 February ). "Isis has reached new depths of depravity. But there go over the main points a brutal logic behind it". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February
  22. ^McCants, Will (30 April ). "Al Qaeda Is Doing Nation-Building. Should We Worry?". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 1 September
  23. ^Loidolt, Bryce; Jackson, Brian A. (). "Considering al-Qa'ida's Innovation Doctrine: From Critical Texts to 'Innovation in Practice'". Terrorism and Governmental Violence. 25 (2): – doi/ S2CID&#;

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