Somehow the Sudanese Muslim group Al-Attasam belKetab wa al-Sunna didn’t get the memo that the Islamic State’s caliphate is nothing like the true, peaceful and tolerant model. Why do so many groups dedicated to understanding Islam properly and implementing it in its fullness end up misunderstanding the Religion of Peace — and why do they all misunderstand it in exactly the same way? It’s a mystery that mainstream analysts have never managed to explain.
“Sudanese Salafi group endorses Islamic State’s new caliphate,” Reuters, July 24, 2014 (thanks to Maxwell):
CAIRO (Reuters) – A Sudanese Salafi group in a statement on Thursday endorsed the Islamic State militant group that declared a caliphate after it swept through northern Iraq last month.
“Our Brothers in the Islamic State … announcing an inclusive caliphate is a good job,” said Sudan’s Al-Attasam belKetab wa al-Sunna, which broke from Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood in 1991 to establish a stricter Islamist movement.
“We announce our support to this blessed step,” added the Salafi group, which had called for a boycott of 2010 presidential and parliamentary elections because they were based on a secular constitution.
Sudan has been led for 25 years by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who came to power by a coup orchestrated by senior Muslim Brotherhood members. They later abandoned him and called for more reforms and freedoms.
More than half a million Iraqis have been displaced across the country since June 10, when the north’s biggest city, Mosul, fell to Sunni insurgents who have harried Iraq’s majority Shi’ite, Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities that have co-existed for hundreds of years.
John C. Barile says
Former FBI director Mueller thinks that there’s an increased outpouring of enthusiasm for the jihadist enterprise, especially now with this latest Gaza crisis, all pouring out from South Asia through the Middle East, North Africa, and sweeping the Muslim diaspora in Europe and the US. Now that these Salafist Sudanese are joining the Khalifah camp, this pan-Islamic thing is gaining some ground. I begin to wonder if I have enough dirhams and dinars to meet my jizyah payments–/sarc.
PJG says
“They later abandoned him and called for more reforms and freedoms.”
Sometimes more “reforms” (ie more Islam) and sometimes more freedom.
What a mixed-up mob!
Gail Griffin says
Go boys go!! Join up now so we can kill you all at one address. Oh how I wish.