Soldiers of Allah

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Soldiers of Allah (Also known as SOA) was a Muslim rap group from Los Angeles, California. USA

SOA Logo, by K4Z.ORG

1 Background
2 Update
3 Criticism
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Background

The last Soldiers of Allah album 1924 was their most successful album.^{[citation needed]} The name of the album refers to the year 1924 when "Islamic state was destroyed" (see Abolishment). The album was recorded before 9/11, but it is supposed that after 9/11 the group became controversial as Islam came further into public awareness in America, see Criticisms.^{[citation needed]}

Soldiers of Allah's views in their raps include unifying the Muslim ummah and setting one strong khilafah (Islamic state). In their songs they often refer to glorious men of Islamic history, like Abdülhamid II, Saladin, Khalid bin Walid and Harun al-Rashid. They stand against corrupted Islamic regimes such that of the governments Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan to name a few, Muslims weak in their beliefs and kuffar disbelievers. They claim that Islam is complete, unlike Christianity and Judaism ("we have system, they have only religion"). Hence, Islam is an Ideology.

SOA (Soldiers of Allah) have been quite popular in the Muslim community in the West,^{[citation needed]} and then gained massive popularity in other parts of the world such as the Middle East, Indonesia and Malaysia.^{[citation needed]} They have gained an extremely wide international audience,^{[citation needed]} past just the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and are believed by many to be the most well-known modern-music Islamic group around, a claim which certainly carries weight, they are spoken well and largely amongst the Muslim Youth.^{[citation needed]}

Due to family reasons, the Soldiers of Allah website has been shut down and the group disbanded, as the members all became married and decided to focus on families.^{[citation needed]} It's hoped that "Soldiers of Allah" will one day regroup and release another album, "SOA 3 - The Return of Islam", and the feature Nasheed will be "By Islam We're Family." The mp3 was released, but the hosting site is now defunct, K77EEL (Hosting site of SOA) have explained it can be found on YouTube.^{[citation needed]}

It had been announced during mid/late 2005 on the Trust Islam messageboard at http://trustislam.com/studiobb (now off-line) , which started out as the homepage of the Soldiers Of Allah group, http://www.muslimstudio.com , that the SOA is working on releasing a new album called SOA 3: The Return of Islam, but after that no news has been released and it is unknown at what stage the album is.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Update

As of January 2007, there is no news of Soldier's Of Allah's new album. According to the MuslimHipHop article, "I know you are all wondering when Soldiers of Allah will come back, well it’s probably not going to happen: “It has been brought up a few times but no action has ever really been taken to think that it would. Brothers have moved into different cities, got married, etc. When you’re young and single, you have much more time." [1] His statements suggest that SOA will most likely not reform.

[edit] Criticism

The Minaret of Freedom Institute has claimed that Soldiers of Allah was a front organization for the ideologist Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir but SOA has claimed they are not affiliated with any group or organization many times.

Soldiers of Allah have also been linked with Baba Ali and the Ummah Films Team (www.ummahfilms.com) even though they continue to deny it, Al-Tassauf reported many underground and hyped links including videos and sound feeds on Youtube.com and CaliphTV.com that showed voice comparison to Baba Ali and SOA songs. Baba Ali still denies affiliation with the group, many argue about the dangers of living in the west post 9/11 and threats members have received