Takfir wal-Hijra

Takfir wal-Hijra
Active	1971-1978
Ideology	Takfiri
Leaders	Shukri Mustafa  †
Allies	Al Qaeda
Opponents	governments of Arab countries

Takfir wal-Hijra (Arabic تكفير والهجرة, English "Excommunication and Exodus", alternately "excommunication and emigration" or "anathema and exile"), was the popular name given to a radical Islamist group Jama'at al-Muslimin founded by Shukri Mustafa which emerged in Egypt in the 1960s as an offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood. Although the group was crushed by Egyptian security forces after it murdered an Islamic scholar and former government minister in 1977, it is said to have "left an enduring legacy" taken up by some Islamist radicals in "subsequent years and decades." Today, some believe, Takfir wal-Hijra has members or supporters in several other countries, allied to Al-Qaeda. al-Takfir wal-Hijra alleged members were arrested in Ukraine in 2009. In November 2013, Russian security forces detained 14 radical Islamists suspected of belonging to Takfir wal-Hijra.

Takfir wal-Hijra has been described as

The takfir of the Takfiris refers to the belief (of at least some of the movement such as Ali Ismael, the sheikh of Egypt's Al-Azhar Mosque at the time) that not only were Egyptian President at the time Gamal Abdel Nasser and his government officials apostates, but so was "Egyptian society as a whole" because it was "not fighting the Egyptian government and had thus accepted rule by non-Muslims".

According to Dr. Mamoun Fandy, (an Egyptian-born professor of politics and senior fellow at the Baker Institute of Public Policy), followers are allowed to shave their beards, drink alcohol, visit topless bars and commit crimes against Westerners — all under the cloak of subterfuge. "They are the mothers and fathers of sleeping cells." They believe that the ends justify any means and, that killing other Muslims can be justified in their cause and that Western society is and it is their duty to destroy it.

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