Abdul Majeed al-Zindani

Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani (Other spellings: Abdelmajid al-Zendani, Abdul Majeed Zendani, Abd Al Majid Zandani) ( _ar. id=yeFr5t19aQs|Yemenite Sheik Claims to Have Found the Cure for AIDS] In twenty cases, al-Zandani said that the virus had vanished completely without any side effects and called on the UN, which "spends enormous amounts of money to fight the disease," to send "its senior scientists to review [the university's] findings.” Since the announcement of this cure in 2005, this research has not yet been verified by other scientists.Fact|date=October 2007

Dr. Jamil al-Mughales, the head of the Clinical Immunology Services of King Abdul Aziz University, said that if he were the Minister of Health, he would put al-Zindani in jail. “Me and my friends were totally upset about the way he is dealing with the disease,” he said. “I am one of the people who personally saw the blood test of one of the patients, who was told by al-Zindani to have relations with his wife because he is virus-free, but then when I saw the results, he still had HIV,” he said [http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2006/12/12/who-to-test-zindani’s-aids-herbal-cure/] .

Vice & virtue movement

In July 2008, Abdul-Majid al-Zindani joined a panel of Islamic clerics and prominent tribal chiefs to announce the creation of a new morality authority. The Meeting for Protecting Virtue and Fighting Vice declared its intention to alert Yemen's police force to infringements of Islamic law. The declaration followed reports of vigilante activity by self-appointed 'morality guardians' in Hodeidah, Aden and Sana'a. [http://www.pulitzercenter.org/openitem.cfm?id=1131 - Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting, 11 August 2008]

Jyllands-posten cartoon controversy

In 2006, Zindani pressed charges against 21 newspapers and their editors in Yemen for printing the controversial Muhammad cartoons, originally printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-posten in 2005. On November 25, 2006, the first case against the newspaper Al-Rai Al-A'm closed with al-Zidani winning the case and the newspaper was sentenced to cease printing for 6 months and the editor Kamal al-Olufi was sentenced to one year of prison. Furthermore, al-Olufi was ordered to pay for the sentence to be printed in all major newspapers in the world.Fact|date=October 2007

On February 24 2004, the US Treasury Department added Zindani to its list of "banned entities" as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist". The Department claimed it had credible evidence al-Zindani had a "long history of working with bin Laden, notably serving as one of his spiritual leaders", that he "served as a contact for Ansar al-Islam (Al), a Kurdish-based terrorist organization linked to al-Qaeda", that students of his Al Iman University were suspected of assassinating three American missionaries and "the number two leader for the Yemeni Socialist Party, Jarallah Omar". [http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js1190.htm United States Designates bin Laden Loyalist] ]

His name subsequently appeared on the UN 1267 Committee's list [http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/committees/1267/tablelist.htm UN 1267 Committee banned entity list] ] of individuals belonging to or associated with al-Qaeda. Among the factors offered to Guantanamo captive Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser's Administrative Review Board, justifying his continued extrajudicial detention were: [http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/ARB_Factors_Set_2_1046-1160.pdf#35 Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser "Administrative Review Board" May 18 2005 - page 35]
#"The detainee decided to go to Afghanistan after hearing and speaking with Sheik Al Zindani.
#"Abd Al Majid Zandani was an active supporter of Usama Bin Laden. Zandani was involved in raising funds and recruiting volunteers for the Bin Laden organization. Zandani is also a religious and legal expert for Usama Bin Laden."
#"Executive Order 13224 designates Shaykh Abd Al Majid Al Zindani as a person who commits, threatens to commit, or supports terrorism."x]

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