Jaish Al-Islam (Palestine)

Army of Islam

Last modified: 2024-01-06 by ian macdonald
Keywords: palestine | sunni | hamas | shahada | text: arabic (white) |
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image by Eugene Ipavec, 07 Jul 2007

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• Political Parties (Palestine)
• Palestine

The Palestinian militant group which recently gained notoriety by kidnapping BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. Their logo incorporates a black flag with the Shahada, a common design among Salafist and Al-Quaida-affiliated groups.

Eugene Ipavec, 07 July 2007

Variant

image located by William Garrison, 13 December 2023

A variation of the flag of "Jaysh al-Ummah" c. Dec. 2023; here using the name: "Jaysh al-Ummah al-Salafi fi Bayt al-Maqdis" ('The Salafi Army of the Ummah in Bayt al-Maqdis"). The top line is the Muslim "Declaration of Fatih": "There is no god but Allah...his messenger is Mohammad". Sadly, the bottom line in partially hidden -- the only visible letter is "n". Jerusalem is also referred to as: Bait al-Maqdis, Bayt al-Maqdis, or Bayt al-Muqaddas. Maqdisi (Arabic: مقدسي) is an Arabic nisba referring to a Jerusalemite. It is derived from Bayt al-Maqdis, an Arabic name for Jerusalem, by way of the Hebrew Beit HaMikdash, the Temple in Jerusalem. Today, the common Arabic name of Jerusalem is al-Quds.
Source: https://www.meforum.org
William Garrison, 13 December 2023