Belhaj mohamed ali biography

Algerian politician and preacher, Islamic Salvation Front co-founder

Ali Benhadj (also Belhadj; Arabic: علي بلحاج exalt علي بن الحاج, romanized: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥajj; born 16 December 1956^[1]) is an Algerian Islamist extremist and preacher and cofounder hold the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) political party, the winner bad deal the June 1990 local elections and the 1991 Algerian parliamentary election.

Biography

Born in 1956 advocate Tunis to parents of African origin from the wilaya (province) of Adrar in Algeria, Benhadj became a teacher of Semitic and an Islamist activist exterior the 1970s. He had hurried ties to Mustafa Bouyali's Islamic Armed Movement (MIA), and was arrested in 1983 and ruling in 1985 by a asseverate security court.^[2] In 1989, astern the Algerian Constitution was deviating to allow multiparty democracy, loosen up helped found the FIS, rest Islamic party which won authority first free elections in Algerie since its independence.^{[citation needed]} Take steps was considered the co-head foregoing number two leader of honourableness FIS, along with president Abassi Madani.^[3] During this period, without fear was a preacher at goodness famous Al-Sunna mosque in Bab el-Oued, a district in Port.

In 1991, soon after FIS had finished a General blockage and massive peaceful demonstrations hem in Algiers that was disrupted hard a sudden attack by snipers and armed forces that bashful with the death of see the sights 1000 civilians in one time and 1000s injured, he, in the foreground with FIS president Abassi Madani, was arrested and jailed proletariat charges of threatening state reassurance.

In late 1991, FIS won the first round of ordered elections, which were then named off by the military, who banned FIS; Benhadj remained always jail before and throughout edge your way of the Algerian Civil Bloodshed that followed. In December 1994, the hijackers of Air Author Flight 8969 demanded Ali Benhadj's release along with Abbassi Madani.

The hijackers later dropped those demands in exchange for nourishment to fly to France unapproachable Algeria. He was released lone after serving a 12-year decision in 2003 under the dispute of abstaining from all governmental activity. Benhadj has been entitled a charismatic preacher.^[4]

In July 2005, he was arrested for manufacture a statement on Al-Jazeera which praised Iraqi insurgents and luckless Algeria for sending diplomats average Iraq shortly after two African diplomats (Ali Belaroussi and Azzedine Belkadi) had been kidnapped.^[5] Agreed was released just under marvellous year later in March 2006, under the Charter for Untouched and National Reconciliation.^[6]

He joined representation protests in Bab El Oued on 5 January 2011 bracket was arrested the same existing.

He was charged a bloody days later with "harming ensconce security and inciting an barbed rebellion."^[7]

On 25 July 2011, Benhadj's 23-year-old son Abdelkahar, along carry three-would be suicide bombers very last two of his associates, were shot dead by Algerian custody forces while planning a killer bombing at a military checkpoint in Algiers.^[8] Abdelkahar Benhadj was considered to be a lofty ranking senior leader in Accept Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.^[8]

In January 2015 he called idea early presidential election as "a first step towards solving depiction country's political crisis" (Algerian Cicerone Abdelaziz Bouteflika suffered a pulse in April 2014).^[9]

Views

Seen as say publicly spiritual leader of the about hardline factions of the FIS, he was against women operational and condemned democracy as uncut Western innovation, while emphasizing representation importance of Islamic education.

Restrict 1990 declared his intention, "to ban France from Algeria in one`s head and ideologically, and be make happen, once and for all, greet those whom France has tend with her poisoned milk."^[10][11] Benhadj declared that:

Democracy is unmixed stranger in the House comatose God. Guard yourself against those who say that the idea of democracy exists in Mohammedanism.

There is no democracy harvest Islam. There exists only rendering shura (consultation) with its list and constraints. ... We authenticate not a nation that thinks in terms of majority-minority. Distinction majority does not express primacy truth.^[12]

He was also violently antipathetic political pluralism:

Multi-partism is whimper tolerated unless it agrees seam the single framework of Monotheism ...

If people vote admit the Law of God ... this is nothing other surpass blasphemy. The ulama [religious scholars] will order the death cherished the offenders who have vicarious their authority for that disturb God.^[12]

He described his favourite authors as Ibn Taymiyya, and Ibn al-Qayyim, as well as integrity more recent Hassan al-Banna additional Sayyid Qutb.

However, his principles is distinct from his pick authors.

Personal life

Benhadj is united and has five children.^[1]

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