Assalamu alaykum,
There are a lot of fatawa , tapes and writing about the various movements out there. But, one thing that is clear, is that the only true success is not from any new faction or group, that creates its own missions and slogans, but that which is one purely based upon Qur'aan and Sunnah, which places Tawheed at its base.. and does not move even one inch from this base. Does not compromise, on this, whether it is from making alliances with disbelievers or with those who call themselves the helpers of Muslims, i.e the Iranians who have a history of allying with whoever they wish in order to further their own political goals.. or the Syrians, and so forth.
First of all Al-Qa'eeda is an ideology, it is not really a group as such, although, Allahu A'lam some people claim to be part of it. It promotes extremist khariji ideas of revolution. Those who study the works of the Ulema' of the past, and understand who the Khawarij were, and their reasoning will understand how AlQaeda is very wrong.. in its unjust shedding of blood and its causing of fitnah around the worlth. A lot of this is not rooted in anything, except modern extremist interpretations of the Qur'aan, which were not even made by Scholars, but by various thinkers and philosophers.
Hamas is the goverment of the Palestinians, it is legitimately the controller of the West Bank too, although right now it is only in control of Gaza. They are incharge of all the schooling and infrastructure in Gaza.
I think people, aught not to concentrate on the organsation as a whole. Some people, make the mistake of siding with an organisation, which has its own philosophies, a lot of which are against Islamic principles. Whether that is their legitimising democracy through to their allying with different groups and people, ignoring their mistakes in creed (even ignoring those who actually call to disbelief such as the raafidah), ignoring even the Muslims who suffer in places like Chechnya. ( as various Islamic Chechen groups were saddened with the allying with Russia that took place). There are many issues, which all point to the problems that are with the Ikhwan Muslimoon movement.
This is something that the Ulema' need to sit with them to discuss and deal with. It is also for Muslims to actually, put aside "political motivations", and actually want to benefit each other for sole purpose of pleasing Allaah Subhana wa ta'ala.. and for establishing His Deen. This is only done by us uniting upon the pure Qur'aan and Sunnah with understanding of the pious predecessors.
The Other important point is that, not everyone who actually is part of these groups actually knows the finer details of their ideas and policies. Allaah help them and aid our dear brothers and sisters. They are really good and sincere Muslims.
We give our support to them because they are Muslims! and because they are faced by our enemies, the Zionist Jews.
For all Muslims are our brothers in Islaam, as well as them having many good people, who, if they were given da'wah correctly, would listen. As of such, there are a few brothers who are working to help Palestinians to understand Islam in the best way, inshaAllaah.
It is also an obligation to give them support. Those who say something else, are living in another world, and are unaware of the Fatawa of the scholars and understanding that everything is based upon situation and maslaha of the Muslims. - If they are incharge of the Muslims, and they are the ones who are protecting them, then we are to do the correct action of giving them support, by whatever halal means..
I think, that it is important to know the truth about the groups, we also need take a balanced approach with how we talk about them and deal with them. Those who can talk about Palestine, Chechnya and so forth, also aught to be doing something positive for them. They should also be doing something to highlight the disbelief and evilness of their enemies. Remember, that we are an Ummah that is being attacked, left right and centre.
I think that the khutbah of Shaykh Hussain aal Shaykh, the Imam and Khateeb of Masjid al Nabawi, in Madinah, was a very good one.
Important Advice to the Muslim Ummah Concerning Palestine
Infact, that advice is going to aid us in every conflict and problem we have. So, we need to concentrate on helping ourselves be strong Muslims, so that we can help the future of this Ummah. So, we can give da'wah in best way to all those around, and be supporters of the true way of Islaam, inshaAllah ta'ala.
assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh