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Jordan: Muslim group pledges allegiance to Islamic State’s caliphate

Jul 25, 2014 4:58 pm By Robert Spencer

IslamicState3Qasim Rashid hardest hit. This group is named Sons of the Call for Tawhid and Jihad. Tawhid is Islam’s absolute monotheism. So here again we see a group totally dedicated to Islam misunderstanding and misinterpreting it — at least in the view of mainstream Western scholars and political officials. Why is this misunderstanding so widespread? To that they have no answer.

“Local Jordanian Salafi group pledges allegiance to Islamic State,” by Ariel Ben Solomon, Reuters, July 24, 2014 (thanks to Maxwell):

A local Jordanian Salafi group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State on Wednesday, while denouncing al-Qaida leaders as illegitimate.

The Jordan Times reported that the Sons of the Call for Tawhid and Jihad, a youth movement, criticized Salafi leader Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi – who has come out against ISIS but supports al-Qaida – and Abu Qatada, a radical cleric who was extradited from Britain last year, for refusing to recognize the Islamic caliphate of the Islamic State.

The group demanded that Maqdisi “return to righteousness.”

The influential Jordanian cleric warned earlier this month that the Islamic State’s declaration of a caliphate in Iraq and Syria would deepen already bloody infighting among jihadists.

“Will this caliphate be a sanctuary for every oppressed one and a refuge for every Muslim?” Maqdisi asked in a posting on his website. “Or will this creation take up a sword against Muslims who oppose it, and with it sweep away all the emirates that came before … and nullify all the groups that do jihad in the cause of Allah in the different battlefields before them?”

The Islamic State, led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has urged jihadist factions worldwide to pledge their allegiance to it, in a direct challenge to regional leaders and to the central leadership of al Qaida, which has disowned it.

Last month, a Jordanian court acquitted Qatada, who was extradited from Britain last year, of charges of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism.

The Sons of the Call for Tawhid and Jihad coalition represents over 70 percent of Jordan’s 6,000-strong Jihadi Salafist movement, noted the report.

Last month, David Schenker, the director of the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former official dealing with the Middle East for the Pentagon, told The Jerusalem Post that Jordan is playing a dangerous game, trying to play Islamist groups against each other in an effort “to divide and conquer.”

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  1. Jovial Joe says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 5:10 pm

    It’s the beginning of the global intifada.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 5:38 pm

      Islamic societies are fissuring, and al-Baghdadi is exploiting their internal weaknesses to achieve his ends.

    • Richie says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 7:18 pm

      and the west is letting it happen. The west could squash these Muslims like the bugs they are, but are letting Muslims commit mayhem and murder.

      Muslims are cowards and bullies. If you dont stand up to them, it emboldens them. if you knock them down and kick the crap out of them, they will run away screaming, That is what western nations need to do to these savage muslim nations

  2. joeb says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    Well, we’ve been waiting for Jordan to come in play, haven’t we? This could be the humble beginning…

  3. Davegreybeard says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 6:28 pm

    Now we see the forces of evil, coming out into the half-light, declaring themselves – coalescing with one another.

    See them plotting, planning with evil treachery just WHEN they will strike at our throats.

    Gun up fellow Infidels, it may be later than you think.

    Deus Vult!

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