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Al-Qaeda affiliate tries to sell jihad as a holiday in new video

The video claimed that jihad is the tourism of the 'Ummah'

London: In an attempt to recruit more jihadists, the al-Qaeeda affiliate group al-Shabaab has released an online video that shows their terrorists enjoying a poaching session in Kenya, where they kill a giraffe and hack its body to pieces.

Claiming that jihad is the tourism of the 'Ummah' the video shows the members of the Somalia based terrorist group swimming through swamps and practising targets in a beach, while urging Muslims world over to wage jihad. It also shows the jiahdists hunting down an African buffalo and catching hoards of colourful fishes.

Claiming that there are no charges for hunting these animals in the 'land of Islam,' the video further says ''You eat, drink and hunt for free. Not in Bangkok

or Los Angeles, paying $500 a night at a London hotel. It is an entertaining journey of tourism and hunting. Indeed the tourism of my nation is jihad."

The sightings of many game animals such as lions, giraffes and ostriches in Lower Jubba areas towards the north is considered to be due to poaching by the al-Shahbab fighters.

The idead of jihad as tourism was put forward by Abdullah Azzam, the al-Qaeeda leader who was killed in the1990s.

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( Source : deccan chronicle )
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