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Islamic State
"This Khalifah will have no borders, only fronts!"
61:9 It is He Who sent His Messenger forth with the guidance and the religion of truth, to make it triumph over every religion.
Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No-one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels. There is no excuse for any Muslim not to migrate to the Islamic State ... joining is a duty on every Muslim. We are calling on you either to join or carry weapons [fight] wherever you are.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an audio message made public May 14, 2015
2:191 Kill them wherever you find them ...
"Kill everyone; the evildoers are all targets for us. Don't bother looking for a specific target, just kill them."
Dar al-Islam (Land of War) No. 3 (My translation of an exhortation to believers worldwide published in Islamic State's French language signature magazine.)
Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy). " Bukhari 52.220
"Always target areas where crowds gather, like popular tourist spots, shopping centers, synagogues, churches … the goal being to instill fear in their hearts."
Dar al-Islam (Land of War) No. 5
"This is not the beginning, it is the end. It is the culmination of a centuries-long war that has burned and simmered but never been extinguished — that will soon grow to consume everything. It is the apocalypse. And it is coming.
This is the chilling vision set out in the Islamic State magazine called “Dabiq,” published in several European languages including English.
Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, September 16, 2014
A War To Be Won
IRAQ DECLARES WAR WITH ISLAMIC STATE OVER
BBC Dec 9, 2017
A nation where both young and old are racing to die in the name of God will not be defeated.
Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer, spokesman for Islamic State., April 4, 2017
The war in Iraq was a continuation of an old war that is expected to continue until the world is that of bearded men and cloaked females all bowing down before the Almighty Allah. The black flag of death will be with us for a long time, if not forever, unless we defeat the ideal it represents.
Death! Death! Glorious Death!
3:143 You were yearning for death before you actually met it. Now you have seen it and you are beholding it.
The Prophet said, "Nobody who enters Paradise likes to go back to the world even if he got everything on the earth, except a Mujahid who wishes to return to the world so that he may be martyred ten times because of the dignity he receives (from Allah)."
Bukhari 52.72
Breaching the Terms of Their License To Kill
Islamic State: Militants 'kill 300 Yazidi captives' BBC May 2, 2015
Yazidis follow a religion derived from Zoroastrianism. In killing the Yazidi men and enslaving their women holy warriors may be breaching the terms of their license to kill. The Zoroastrians in the Koran are a people of the book, not the Book, but a book, the Avesta, and people of the Book are to be given the choice of paying a yearly tax or converting. Only after refusing both options are they to be summarily executed.
Killing After the Battle Has Been Won
In June, when IS forces moved into the Tikrit area, there was an apparent massacre of some 1500 Shia cadets at a former U.S. base known as Camp Speicher.
Globe and Mail, March 6, 2015
Killing surrendered opponents is a tradition going back to the Prophet. therefore permitted under Sharia law.
Young men getting ready to decapitate 15 Syrian military personnel. Notice the composure of those who are about to kill with their bare hands and a knife a human being they are holding like a sheep ready to cut its throat. They are totally unperturbed, they know how it's done.
The appalling cruelty found throughout the Koran may condition holy warriors to kill without remorse but how holy warriors slaughter their prisoners is probably learnt behavior. Where that method of killing is most often demonstrated is during the Feast of Sacrifice marking the end of the Hajj where Muslim fathers all over the world, in front of their families with a knife will butcher sheep, goats ... in their millions in a manner similar to what Islamic State does with their captives.
The New Barbarians at the Gate
Islamic State militants bulldoze ancient Nimrud city
Reuters, March 6, 2015
Islamic State video shows militants destroying Iraqi antiquities ... dating back to the 7th century BC,
Reuters, Feb 26, 2015
Western Civilization survived the Visigoths and their ilk for many were barbarians in name only; not so for the latest incarnation of brutality and ignorance.
Democracy, Liberty Western Art as Blasphemies
Beheading Your Benefactors
A video has emerged showing the beheadings purportedly of 21 Egyptian Christians who had been kidnapped by Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya. The footage shows a group wearing orange overalls, being forced to the ground and then decapitated.
BBC News, Feb 15, 2015
The Coptic Church and Islam go way back. If it wasn't for the Coptic patriarch Muqawqis, a contemporary and admirer of the Prophet, the Muslim conquest of North Africa and Andalusia might have been stymied at the Nile. Islamic State should be beholden to the Copts, not killing them for alleged crimes against Islam.
Is Torching People Allowed Under the Sharia?
Jordan confirms the death of pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh after a video published online by Islamic State claims to show him being burned alive.
BBC News, Feb 3, 2015
Under Islamic law, the example or a saying of Muhammad is the ultimate precedent if it does not contradict the Koran, and Allah's spokesman did not approve the burning of people unlike his son-in-law, Ali.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle sent us in a mission (i.e. an army-unit) and said, "If you find so-and-so and so-and-so, burn both of them with fire." When we intended to depart, Allah's Apostle said, "I have ordered you to burn so-and-so and so-and-so, and it is none but Allah Who punishes with fire, so, if you find them, kill them."
Bukhari 52.259
Narrated Ikrima:
Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn Abbas, who said, "Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, 'Don't punish (anybody) with Allah's Punishment.'
No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.'"
Bukhari 52.260
The Koran encourages retaliation in kind, therefore the burning of the pilot may have been legal if he dropped incendiary bombs on believers.
2:179 In retaliation there is life for you, O people of understanding, that you may be God-fearing.
Dying To Get Home
Unsubstantiated reports out of Britain (November, December 2015), have ISIS executing at least 118 foreign fighters wanting to leave the killing fields of Syria and go home.
The State of Concubines and Sex Slaves as Booty
80 Yazidi men from the village of Kawju were shot dead by Islamic State holy warriors and their wives and daughters taken, it is speculated, to the city of Tal Afar, a gathering area for foreign fighters.
BBC Aug 16, 2914
“One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar — the infidels — and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, or Islamic law,”
CNN quoting Islamic State, Oct 14, 2014
[Islamic State] terrorists explained in a new publication their justification for taking women and using them as sex slaves, saying simply that it’s a practice that’s as old as Sharia law — and allowed by Islamic beliefs.
Washington Times Oct 13, 2014
Can't get a date, join Islamic State and get rewarded with the wives and daughters of the men you killed to enjoy at your leisure.
Pick a Side
“You’re with them or with us … pick a side" wrote Jihadist Aqsa Mahmood in her blog.
Aqsa Mahmood, in the Islamic variation of Romeo and Juliet, escaped to Syria to marry a jihadist and hopes to be martyred with him or, Allah willing, return home "to raise the black flag of IS over Britain" and perhaps the United States.
"Know this Cameron/Obama" she wrote, "you and your countries will be beneath our feet and your Kufr (infidel) will be destroyed, this is a promise from Allah swt (may he be glorified and exalted) that we have no doubt over. If not you, then your grandchildren or their grandchildren. But worry not, somewhere along the line your blood will be spilled."
The Daily Mail, Sep 12, 2014
History Repeating Itself
How the Prophet conducted the first Islamic war of conquest, that of the Arabian Peninsula, is not unlike the Islamic State. A horde of holy warriors descending on the villages and towns of the Peninsula intent on slaughter, destruction and plunder, with Muhammad announcing to the inhabitants their imminent annihilation, as he does at Khaibar, must have been terrifying, as it must be for cities and towns in Islamic State's path.
The Darkness Putting Out The Lights... One by One
The Dark Ages is generally accepted to be the period in our history between 400 and 1000 AD. Islam is a product of that gloomy dark period, reflected in the flag and attire of those who seek a return to that ominous time. For humanity to have come so far, to see it all be for naught because of a religion born out of superstitions and ignorance; a product of the mind of a mentally damaged man (a severe sunstroke, from which he almost died, heralded Muhammad's calling) who mistook his dreams for a doorway to an alternate reality.
James Foley
Allan Henning
A Difference in Name Only
The Saudis would have you believe that there is a difference between their Wahhabi ideology and the Salafi creed of the leadership of ISIS. Both nearly identical theologies advocate a return, through violence and the threats of violence where necessary, to what we consider the Dark Ages and they the Golden Age of Islam.
The difference is in name only. "Salaf" means "predecessors or ancestors" the first Muslims; the companions of Muhammad for the most part, whose example, after that of Muhammad, Salafists seek to emulate as closely as possible.
Christians at Risk
A jihadist group in Syria has demanded that Christians in the northern city of Raqqa pay a levy in gold and accept curbs on their faith, or face death ... Correspondents say ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is trying to implement an extreme interpretation of Islamic law in areas it controls.
BBC News, Feb 27, 2014
NO! It is not an extreme interpretation, it is the only interpretation. The Koran was written for simpletons from communications received by a purported illiterate who was not into nuances. The verse imposing Allah's right-to-live tax on People of the Book (the Bible) i.e. Christians and Jews is unambiguous. Shades of gray do not exit in the black and white world of Islam. It is a dangerous delusion from which those who are killing Christians in Africa and threatening to kill the Christians of Syria do not suffer.
More from the BBC report on the Christians of Raqqa:
Raqqa, seized by ISIS last year, was the first provincial capital to be completely in the hands of rebels.
The directive from ISIS, citing the Islamic concept of "dhimma", requires Christians in the city to pay tax (the jizya) of around half an ounce (14g) of pure gold in exchange for their safety.
It says Christians must not make renovations to churches, display crosses or other religious symbols outside churches, ring church bells or pray in public. Christians must not carry arms, and must follow other rules imposed by ISIS (also known as ISIL) on their daily lives.
The statement said the group had met Christian representatives and offered them three choices - they could convert to Islam, accept ISIS' conditions, or reject their control and risk being killed.
"If they reject, they are subject to being legitimate targets, and nothing will remain between them and ISIS other than the sword," the [ISIS] statement said.
A group of 20 Christian leaders chose to accept the new set of rules, ISIS said.
Raqqa was once home to about 300,000 people, with less than 1% Christian, according to AFP news agency.
Many Christians fled after ISIS started attacking and burning churches.
Bernard Payeur