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and military installations." (Pakistan, of course, was one of the" governments of the Muslim countries who side with
America".) Shamzai and his fatwa were, according to Zahid, "instrumental in galvanising anti-American protest movements in Pakistan after the 9/11" against the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan in 2001 and in the thousands of Pakistanis who later "joined the Afghan Taliban". In one lecture he preached that "violent jihad was the only solution for numerous problems confronting the Muslim world."
303:. His killing instigated the ransacked of the Jamshed Quarters police station, burning of about "20 vehicles, two bank branches and a petrol station", and shooting and injuring of six people. Some "15,000 paramilitary soldiers and police were deployed" in Karachi to prevent further violence, and specifically to protect
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According to scholar Farhan Zahid, the fatwa meant "that violent jihad" was "obligatory for all
Muslims", and "young able-bodied Muslim men" were required "to wage violent jihad against the US on behalf of Afghanistan and this required the killing of Americans, Jews, as well as attacking businesses
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According to Farhan Zahid, Shamzai's ideological influence over jihadi organisations in
Pakistan and Afghanistan is "unremitting". His ideology and thoughts" It "produced a number of terrorist and extremist organisations. Until his death he "issued fatwas, held messianic and anti-Semitic views,
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Shamzai is described as having had "close relations" with Al Qaeda's founder, Osama Bin Laden, and is thought to have convinced Mullah Umar to reject the
Americans’ demand for the handing over of Osama bin Laden. Representative of his feelings was a fatwa issued in 1998 (at the forum of
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All those governments of the Muslim countries who side with
America in this crusade, and putting on their disposal the land and resources, or sharing intelligence with them, are no more legitimate. It is a duty of every Muslim to bring these governments down, by any means
499:... weaved within conspiracy theories" and is credited with being a major contributor to the growth of anti-Semitism in Pakistan by Zahid. In addition to hating Jews he also despised the anti-jihadi media as expressed in one statement: “
422:, i.e. the mistake committed by too many in the Muslim community (ummah) of not participating in violent jihad in Afghanistan, Kashmir, Chechnya, Burma and elsewhere. Practicing the five pillars of Islam by praying
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