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Hizb Tawheed Wal-Qitaaland His Messenger. In other words preparing for those who wagedwar against Allāh and His Messenger.‖ 90And similarly, another attempt to fight Islām internally, throughnon-military means, by causing division and disunity, was thecreation of the Rāfidhah Shī‘ah, as Ibn Taymiyyah, said:―So the first one who innovated the Rafdh (i.e. the Shī‘ahmethodology) was a Munāfiq Zindīq, who was called ‗Abd Allāhbin Saba‘. And he wanted to corrupt the religion of the Muslims, bydoing so, just as Paul – the author of the letters in the hands of theChristians – did. Because he innovated innovations for them bywhich he corrupted their religion, and he was a Jew but he openlydisplayed Christianity through hypocrisy, and intended to corruptit. And likewise, Ibn Saba‘ was a Jew, and (also) intended that,likewise. And he strove in the Fitnah, with the objective ofcorrupting the religion, but he was unable to do so.‖ 91Current forms of Enemy Propaganda:1) “The War of Ideas”:Today this strategy of the disbelievers is to wage an ideologicalcampaign to persuade the Muslim youth that they must renounceall armed resistance against their authority and dominance. Andthey understand that this goal is unlikely to succeed if appliedexternally. Therefore they seek to develop and propagate thisconcept within the Muslim communities themselves. For instance,in a chapter entitled ―Attack the Ideology‖ the multiplecontributing authors of ―Beyond al-Qaeda‖ wrote:―The war on terror at its most fundamental level goes to the war of ideas.The goal here is to delegitimize jihadist ideology and the use of terrorismand to deny extremists the high ground of Islamic politico-religiousdiscourse, which has been adroitly exploited by al-Qaeda to further theappeal of its own radical and absolutist rhetoric. As we have outlined inanother RAND study, prevailing in the war of ideas requires empoweringmoderate Muslims to counter the influence of the radicals.‘ Althoughideology is inherently difficult to attack by outsiders, the ideological90 ―Fat‟h al-Qadîr al-Jâmi‟ Bayna Fannay ar-Riwâyah wad-Dirâyah Min „Ilm at-Tafsîr‖, Vol.2/40391 ―Majmû‟ al-Fatâwa‖, Vol. 35/112, publication of ―Dâr al-Wafâ‘‖; Al-Mansûrah, 3rdEdition, 1426H.The Compilation Of Security And Intelligence Principles Page 131