Homepage of The Association of Islamic Charitable Projects (AICP), also known as the al-Ahbash/Habashis  "The AICP is a voice of moderation, striving to rid the Muslim community of the vile innovations and prevailing deviations - the proponents of which call for terrorism and violence."

A Sufi Response to Political Islamism: Al-Ahbash of Lebanon - International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1996   "The Ahbash.. is unique and one of the most controversial Muslim associations in the contemporary spectrum of Islamic groups. The controversy surrounding this movement involves its peculiar origins and eclectic theological roots, which define the society's separate identity and determine its program of religious and political action."

A radical Islamist group assassinated
Shaykh Nizar Halabiyya, a leader of Al-Ahbash, in 1995

"The Ahbash are the devout followers of Shaykh Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Hirari al-Shibi al- Abdari, also known as al-Habashi, signifying his Ethiopian origins-hence the appellations given to his movement: al-Ahbash and al Habashiyyin. While his detractors call him "a mysterious person" of Jewish origins, the shaykh's official biography states that he was born in al-Hirara, near Somalia, in 1920, where he studied Shafi'i jurisprudence and became a mufti in the Oromo tribal region. In 1947, Shaykh Habashi came to the Hijaz after he was expelled from Ethiopia, because his teachings were seen as a threat by Emperor Haile Selassie. He settled in Beirut in 1950..."

"...the Ahbash have emerged as important political actors in Lebanon and within the Islamic orbit. They present a clear alternative to the powerful Islamist trend and, as such, are likely to attract a considerable following among those Sunni Muslims who are searching for a middle way out of the bloody conflict between the Arab regimes and the Islamist societies."

The Habashies Weighted On The Scale Of Shara' - Islam.Org, 1994   "A new group has recently emerged with ambitious thoughts, and a variety of rulings. They are called Ahbash or Habashies (Ethiopians, or Abyssinians), not because they come from that land, but because their leader Abdullah AlHabashy hales from Harare in Somalia. Since they first appeared the Ahbash have entered into many confrontations and disputes, and numerous debates with many of the scholars, students, and people in general. They continued in this fashion until their nefarious scheme was discovered, and their intentions became clear to every sane person, or anyone who hears or bears witness to their blasphemies."

Al-Habash - Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, 2001   "In reality, the group is largely a propaganda tool used by Syria's secular, Alawite-dominated regime to combat Islamic fundamentalism, manipulate the Lebanese Sunni Muslim community, and gain acceptance for the Alawite sect within Islamic religious circles."

The Habashi Heresy - antihabashis website   "Thus it should be known that this group brings political projects, and these projects are not Islamic. Their project is to innovate, call others apart from Allah, tricking Allah, humiliating the scholars, charging them in blasphemy, and cursing many companions They are swerved from straight path as Sheikh Ibn Baz and other scholars declared, for they were founded to provoke discord and violation, and to cause more scattering, deviation and disturbance in this Ummah."