Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): A ministerial decree 14/2007 came out declaring "National Adala [Justice] Movement" on 25 April 2007. Prior to that it had worked as unlicensed movement. The movement's mosaic membership includes some leftists like lawyer Abdulla Hashem. The movement has focused since its inception on defending those who were charged of terrorism and detained in Guantanamo.

When we study carefully the biographies of the founders of the movement, their organisational background, ideologies, literature, and their ways of handling issues, we obviously find their adoption of "Salafist Jihadism" which is different to salafist Asala Society, extremist inclination that is close to Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden thinking, and enmity towards USA.

Salafist Jihadism

Al-Ayam newspaper edition of 8 March 2006 confirmed that when Adala movement declared its launch in its founding seminar. It quoted a salafist close to Asala Society: "The most prominent salafist political figures that attended the seminar considered signing the National Action Charter and the participation in the municipal and parliamentary elections as infidelity, since they are experiences imported from the West."

Those tendencies came into pubic for the first time when Adala organised a sit-in in Jufair to protest the Bahraini government's decision to re-open its embassy inIraq. The protesters held pictures of Ben Laden and Al-Qaeda flags. Others played slaughtering an American soldier effigy. A number of ex-Guantanamo detainees took part in that protest and some of them were members of the movement.
The then-movement secretary general Abdulla Hashem defended raising Osama Ben Laden's pictures and chopping off the head of the American soldier effigy: "Osama Ben Laden is one of the Islamic resistance leaders in the world."
He revealed to Al-Ayam newspaper: "The movement is proud that Afghan war veterans have joined it." He commended the dozens who were affiliated to religious streams and worked under the "National Adala" in a reference to Mohiuddin Khan, the member of the Executive Committee. Khan was a member of a "terrorist" cell that the ministry of interior announced it had arrested on 15 February 2003.

Hostility towards America

In its activity for those charged of "terrorism", Adala made a team to defend and demand the release of Bahraini detainees in Guantanamo and Gulf countries. It exhibited hostility towards USA and stressed extremist stands towards it in its dealing with salafist jihadists.

On 7 June 2008, Hashem told Al-Wasat newspaper: "The U.S. decision to freeze the assets of three Gulf-based militants, arguing that they gave financial and material support for Al-Qaeda, among those two Bahraini nationals Adel Abdul-Khaliq Abdul-Rahman Mohammed,that deicion is very reckless."

That inclination of the movement was confirmed by the chief of its central committee after his resignation. He told "Sout Al-Bahrain" website: "What we see is an exploitation of the youth's card especially those charged of terrorism for personal interests." He added: "It's good to support the oppressed, and it's one of the movement's objectives, however, what makes me wary is the consistent use of that card for personal interests of particular people, among them the secretary general."

On 20 August 2011 the Saudi authorities arrested the head of the Freedoms Committee in the movement Mohammed Janahi after he had been detained 24 days pending investigation. He had extremist salafist inclination. On 21 April 2013 the Yemeni authorities denied the National Adala movement secretary general Mohiuddin Khan from entering its territories and left on the same plane that had brought him from Bahrain.

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