Hamid Al Ali

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Jul 19

**DOB:** 1960

**Nationality:** Kuwaiti

**Location:** Kuwait
**Ideology/Affiliation:** Salafi Jihadi

**Type of Leader:** Radical Preacher/ Al Qaeda/ Fundraiser

Biography

Hamid Abdallah Ahmed al-Ali is a Kuwaiti Salafi militant facilitator and inciter, described by the U.S. Treasury Department as "an Al Qaeda facilitator and fundraiser.". Hamid was born in 1960 in Kuwait where he was a primary education teacher of Islamic studies. He earned a Master’s degree in Tafsir and Quran studies in 1988 from the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia. After his Master’s degree, he returned back to Kuwait to work as a professor of Islamic studies at Kuwait University for several years, then as a general secretary of al-Harakat al-Salafiyya fil-Kuwait (The Salafi Movement of Kuwait) from 1991 to 1999.

A while after, al-Ali was not only officially banned from teaching and speaking in any institution but also arrested by the Kuwaiti government after he issued a fatwa describing the Kuwaiti government and other governments as “Kuffar” (disbelievers) and lawful targets for the mujahideen for supporting non-Islamic countries’ aggression against the Muslim world. The arrest has not stopped him from becoming a well-known Islamist in Kuwait and the Arab world, including being one of the leading voices encouraging armed militancy.

A few months prior to September 11 attacks, al-Ali issued a fatwa authorising suicide operations through flying aircrafts into targets, which led some to link his fatwas to Al-Qaeda’s actions. According the UN Security Council, he provided financial support and ideological justification for some affiliated groups of al-Qaeda aiming to commit acts of terrorism in Kuwait, Iraq, and elsewhere along with Jaber Ahmad al-Jalahmah and Mubarak al-Bathali. In addition, the UN Security Council also declared that Al-Ali recruits and provides financial support for radicals in Kuwait for terrorist activity, including for Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Furthermore, he facilitated the transfer of jihadists, funds and weapons to and from Syria to support the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra Front - the former name of Hay’at Tahrir Al Sham - the opposition terrorist group operating today in the Syrian province of Idlib.

Al-Ali also used his website to provide a wide array of technical advice for making explosives, chemical, and biological weapons as well as delivering fatwas endorsing suicide bombing. On suicide operations, Al-Ali states that “the permissiveness, and sometimes necessity, of suicide operations on the condition of crushing the enemy…in modern times, this can be accomplished by bringing down an aeroplane on an important site that causes the enemy great casualties.”.

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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

May 2014: In an article entitled Adequate lessons from the battle of empty committees (الدروس الوافية من معركة اللجان الخاوية), Al-Ali hails the political fight of the Muslim Brotherhood’s members in Egypt against the military regime. He stated that the Brotherhood seeks to save Egypt from the corrupt “military junta” that controls power for decades as part of a Zionsit-Western plan to weaken the Islamic world since the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate.

March 2012: Al-Ali delivered a sermon at the Qatar Grand Mosque in Doha where he publicly praised Al-Nusra Front “great jihad” in Syria.

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In a video on Youtube, the cleric calls the fight against the regime in Syria Jihad. He described the armed struggle by the opposition as a fight to preserve the religion against a group of evil that goes from Tehran to the “ party of evil” ( he means the Shiite Hezbollah group).

Extremist Individuals - Islam