Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement

EIJM

12/12/2006

The Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement, as one might expect, is composed of Islamic terrorists who are financed, trained, and armed by the fundamentalist Islamic government in neighboring Sudan. Also known as the Islamic Reform Movement and the Islamic Salvation Group (Harakat al Khalas al Islami), the terrorist club seeks to depose the current secular government in Eritrea and replace it with an Islamic theocracy based upon Sharia Law.

Led by Sheikh Khalil Muhammad Amer, the EIJM claims to represent the religious and political aspirations of Eritrea's Muslim population (now at 50% and growing). They are however, based in Khartoum, Sudan and they commence most of their terrorist raids from Sudanese soil. And that's not good since the Sudan was home to the most ruthless Islamic regime in the world - a Muslim government which had sponsored the genocide of 2.7 million Africans.

The People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), the ruling party in Eritrea, confirmed the close ties between the Erithrean Islamic Jihad Movement and the Islamic Sudanese government by showing how the Sudan provided the EIJM with weapons, training sites, and a safe haven. The secular Eritrean government cited the use of weapons of Sudanese origin such as Kalashnikov assault rifles and RPG-7 grenade launchers, as proof of foreign involvement in its internal affairs.

The EIJM is a product of many alliances, and it includes members of the Munezemet Arrewad al Muslimin al Eritrea (Eritrean Pioneer Muslim Organization), the Jebhat Tahrir al Eritrea al Islamiya Wataniya (Eritrean National Islamic Liberation Front), the Lejnet al Difae al Islami (Islamic Defense Committee), the Harekat al Mustedafeen al Eritrea (Movement of Oppressed Eritreans), and al Intifada Islamiya (Islamic Uprising). Due to this amalgamation of Islamic terrorist clubs, the EIJM includes political dissidents and fundamentalist Islamists.