The Saved Sect (Arabic الفرقة الناجية,
al-Firqat un-Naajiyah), formerly and more
generally known as The Saviour Sect, is a Muslim organization that operated in the United Kingdom
from its formation in November 2005 until the
British government banned it on 17 July
2006. It is widely believed, along with
Al Ghurabaa, to be the reformed
Al-Muhajiroun which
Omar Bakri Muhammad disbanded in 2004.
It is believed that Omar Bakri today still heads this
organisation.
Overview
The Saved Sect sees the majority of Muslims living in the
Western world are forgetting their roots, and
sees its primary purpose as being to remind the
Ummah of the true
Islamic
values.
[153659].
The name of the group is derived from a hadith (or tradition)
ascribed to the prophet
Muhammad:
- My nation will be divided into 73 sects, all of them will
be in the Fire except for one (the saved sect)...
On
17 July 2006 the group was banned under
new legislation in Britain. Home Secretary
John Reid laid an order in Parliament
which made it a criminal offence for a person to belong to or
encourage support for the group, to arrange meetings in its
support, or to wear clothes or carry articles in public indicating
support or membership.
Although the organization's website claims to represent the views
of the Saviour Sect in Islam, they do not claim that they
themselves are the Saviour Sect, as this apparently would be
ascribing purity to themselves and would also indicate that they
have knowledge of al-Ghayb (the unseen), which Muslims believe only
Allah knows about.
They claim to be followers of
Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah
(People of the Sunnah and the Community) and that their teachings
are of as-Salaf us-Saalih (the Pious Predecessors). However, many
Sunnis firmly refute this.
In November 2005,
Al Ghurabaa and the
Saved Sect were re-established under the name
Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah. This
organization operates mainly through an invitation-only Internet
forum, of which Anjem Choudary is a prominent contributor, using
the
username "Abou Luqman". A reporter
visiting the site found recordings of
Osama Bin Laden,
Ayman al-Zawahiri, and
Omar Bakri Mohammed, as well as calls
for holy war.
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