Hānī talks about al-Qā‘idah sending the trip-wired parcels to the Emmanuel Synagogue in Chicago and the “Sayyidat al-Najāh” church massacre in Iraq. He says that both are a violation of the Islamic Sharī’ah and that these actions pose several questions. If Muslims are agitated by cartoons and short films, what would happen if similar parcels were sent to mosques?

Key Words: al-Qā‘idah - Emanuel Congregation – Iraq – Yemen – Tunisia