The leaders of the Egyptian Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya criticized Al-Qa’ida, led by Usama Ben Laden, as “having strange calculations and mixing things up because it declared war on the whole world when it does not have enough power.”
The leaders of Al-Gama’a stressed in their new book that Al-Qa’ida “harmed Islam very badly everywhere and harmed the Palestinian cause because it has been pushed to the back with Afghanistan under occupation…Al-Qa’ida’s bombings on September 11 aided the war and dismantling of Iraq led to the rise of U.S. in the Islamic world.”