Abu Sayyaf groups have no ties to the religion of Islam and its values. They resemble a gang –an organised crime group, kind of a mafia that relies on kidnapping foreigners to demand ransoms, former Abu Sayyaf hostage Baker Atyani said in a January 9th Al Arabiya interview. They lacked the basic understanding of Islamic values, which idealise humanity and humility. The issue of being Muslim or not is not very important here, what is important is that they found a source of money, he said. The sad thing is that the people who follow them believe that this is Islam, and this is how people deal with each other in Islam. Atyanis comments echoed earlier statements by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), who in July accused Abu Sayyaf of using Islam to advance their false cause. The groups perversion of the religion, he said, was due in part to its complete isolation from society. Some of them did not come out of the jungle for 20 years. One of them was shocked and asked me if we are in 2007, he said. The people are not living in this world, they live in a jungle and without knowing what is happening in the world. ======
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 06:52:44 +0000
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