The Global Anti-Aggression Campaign consists of a number of religious leaders, intellectuals, and human rights activists from the Arab World and holds annual conferences to advance their stated objectives and discuss Western and Israeli aggression on Muslim communities.
The founding statement accuses the US and Israeli governments of aggression by attempting to extend their influence over Muslim nations and peoples, plunder their resources, and alter their educational and social systems.
According to the founding statement, the Western-led aggression also attempts to falsify and ridicule the values of Islam, attack the Quran and Muhammad and lead deceitful media campaigns and armed invasions.
[2] In addressing the issues mentioned in the organization’s founding statement, the Global Anti-Aggression Campaign seeks to “combine the efforts of the ummah, remind them of their duty to victory, make them aware of their right to self-defense, and oppose the aggressor in the most legitimate and influential way possible.”[3] The Global Anti-Aggression Campaign claims to be established in compliance with Islamic order to defend the oppressed people and to drive away the oppressors.
[5] Following the 2009 Global Anti-Aggression Campaign conference in Istanbul, Turkey the BBC reported that religious scholars and clerics in attendance “met senior Hamas officials to plot a new jihad centered on Gaza.”[6] Mohammed Nazzal, Hamas spokesman and senior leader based in Damascus, also attended the 2009 Global Anti-Aggression Campaign conference.
The Global Anti-Aggression Campaign expresses the organization’s anti-American sentiments in the founding statement by claiming the American administration:[2]“is working to achieve control over Muslim nations and peoples, stealing their wealth, annihilating their will, and changing their educational curriculums and social orders.
[15] The U.S. Department of Treasury also claims that al-Nuaimi has provided financial support to Osbat al-Ansar, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and individuals associated with East African-based terrorist group al-Shabaab.
[20]( ) The U.S. Department of Treasury also asserted that Haddad had been a member of al-Qaeda’s precursor organization Makhtab al-Khidamat (MAK) that was founded by Usama Bin Laden and Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
[23] In 2014, an article entitled “Between Running Over and Stabbings, a Tale of Revenge and Retaliation” was posted on the Global Anti-Aggression Campaign’s website in support of the wave of terrorist attacks committed with knives and vehicles in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories.