Hamas Charter
The Hamas Founding Charter is the founding charter of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas . It was first published on August 18, 1988 and contains the ideology of this organization as formulated by its founders, mainly Ahmad Yasin .
content
The founding charter comprises 36 articles.
Article 3 described the members of Hamas as those who " fear Allah and raise the flag of jihad against the tyrants". Article 8 contains the Hamas slogan: "Allah is their goal, the Prophet their example, the Koran their constitution, Jihad their way and death to God their greatest wish."
A hadith was quoted in Article 7 : The hour will come when the Muslims will fight and kill the Jews until the Jews hide behind stones and trees. But the trees and stones will say: “Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, here is a Jew who is hiding behind me. Come and kill him! ”Only the Gharkad tree will not do this, for it is a tree of the Jews. This quotation serves to explain what is meant by the “promise of God” mentioned earlier in the article, which Hamas wants to keep.
The attitude towards the State of Israel is uncompromising and fixed for all time. Palestine has been described as part of Dār al-Islām since the conquest by the caliph Omar ibn al-Chattab in the 7th century. "Palestine is given to the generations of Muslims until Judgment Day ."
On May 1, 2017, Hamas published a policy and position paper, the nature of which as a replacement for the 1988 Charter or merely a supplement to it is controversial.
reception
In contrast to the PLO , the historian and terrorism expert Walter Laqueur describes Hamas as "deeply religious". Her charter also has eschatological features.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement August 18, 1988
- ^ The charter of the "Islamic Resistance Movement" (HAMAS) - website of the Israeli embassy
- ↑ Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in the Hamas Charter A case study on hostility towards Jews in the Islamist discourse Armin Pfahl-Traughber . November 2011.
- ↑ According to the note on the German version of the Charter: Probably Lycium shawii , a kind of wolfberry, or Nitraria retusa. At least a shrubby desert plant.
- ↑ The only source given in the charter is “according to the hadith collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim”. It is Sahai al-Buchari , Book 41, No. 6985 .
- ^ The goals and significance of Hamas's new political document. (PDF) terrorism-info.org.il, May 8, 2017, accessed on October 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Marc Frings in conversation with Tobias Armbrüster: New Hamas paper - "We don't know whether it will really replace the Charter". May 2, 2017, accessed on October 16, 2019 (German).
- ↑ End-time visions as a source of Islamist violence? Reinhard Möller, in: Federal Agency for Political Education
literature
- Charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement Ḥamās, in Andreas Meier, Ed .: Political currents in modern Islam. Sources and Comments. Federal Agency for Civic Education , BpB, Bonn 1995 ISBN 3-89331-239-0 , pp. 126-133.