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Muslim cleric killed fighting for the Islamic State

Jan 2, 2015 9:36 pm By Robert Spencer

ISIL-1How did a Muslim cleric get the idea that he should fight with the Islamic State? Doesn’t he know that what they do has nothing to do with Islam? Did he miss the Qur’an’s peaceful and tolerant passages?

“Saudi IS cleric killed in northern Syria,” Associated Press, January 2, 2015:

BEIRUT (AP) — A Saudi cleric with the Islamic state group has been killed in the northern Syrian town of Kobani that has been witnessing intense clashes for months between jihadis and Kurdish gunmen, activists said Friday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Othman al-Nazeh al-Assiri was killed Thursday while battling Kurdish fighters in Kobani.

Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, including the Raqqa Media Center, which operates in areas under IS control, said al-Assiri was killed in an airstrike on Kobani by the U.S.-led coalition.

Kurdish Democratic Union Party spokesman Nawaf Khalil said he has no confirmation that al-Assiri was killed while battling the members of the local Kurdish militia known as the People’s Protection Units or YPG.

Al-Assiri was known Sharia official with the Islamic State group and used to lead sermons at a mosque in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa….

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  1. Salah says

    Jan 2, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    “Othman al-Nazeh al-Assiri was killed Thursday while battling Kurdish fighters in Kobani.”

    I doubt he was killed while “battling.” Clerics, imams, mullahs, muftis, ayatollah, etc do not battle, they send their gullible followers to the death while they themselves, just like the coward Muhammad, “hide behind the army unit.” (Bukhari 4.52.54)

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/03/muhammad-coward.html

    • Mirren10 says

      Jan 3, 2015 at 9:00 pm

      ”I doubt he was killed while “battling.”

      I’ll bet you’re right there, Salah. Most likely he was ranting a kutbah, thinking he was safe behind the lines, then, boom ! 🙂 I love a feel good story.

  2. pumbar says

    Jan 3, 2015 at 1:23 am

    The miserable, craven, shattered entity formerly known as France stumbles, dhimmified, towards its own demise, cowardly appeasing the muslim threat it has so spinelessly subjected itself to as it falls to its knees and eventual ruin;

    http://Pamelageller.com/2015/01/Muslims-­Torch-940-Cars-Across-France-On-New-Year­s-Eve.html/

    • Charli Main says

      Jan 3, 2015 at 2:10 am

      Off Topic Plumbar.
      Another ship load ( literally !!!!!!!) of “poor Muslims refugees” has just been towed into an Italian port. Some 700 of these ” refugees” appear to have been abandoned at sea by people traffickers in the full knowledge that they would be picked up and brought to Europe by the stupid Kaffirs. The second time in a week. Its no longer a ” flood” its now a tsunami of ” poor Muslim refugees”.
      Ever wonder why all these ” poor Muslim refugees” never head for North Africa and join their Muslim brothers in those Islamic paradises.????????

      • pumbar says

        Jan 3, 2015 at 3:06 am

        Hmm, let me think. I wonder why… No, I’m sure our wise leaders have it all under control.

        • particolor says

          Jan 3, 2015 at 4:20 am

          I’ve heard the Welfare System is not real Flash there in North Africa ?? This may be a reason ??

        • pumbar says

          Jan 4, 2015 at 9:05 am

          “I’ve heard the Welfare System is not real Flash there in North Africa ?? This may be a reason ??”

          Yep, I bet that ticks one of the boxes near the top mate.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jan 3, 2015 at 5:54 am

        Uncritically receiving these shiploads of invaders is indeed “stupid”, but it is not the choice of the ordinary kaffir people of Europe, whose views are not listened to. It is the tainted, traitorous policy of the unelected EU leaders, to bring about nation-breaking. Browbeating the member peoples with “Core Values” and dishonestly touted “economic benefit,” the EU is forcing Europe to receive destructive numbers of culturally unassimilable aliens, and provide them with housing and benefits: anyone who complains is criminalised.
        The PEGIDA protests are a better barometer of the kaffirs.

        • particolor says

          Jan 3, 2015 at 6:07 am

          Yep !! They are sending them by the 5H1T Load now !! And Ill bet they are all Jihadi Warriors !! I heard it on the Radio last night and the Media is calling them “IMMIGRANTS” ??? I wonder when they will Change that to “INVITED GUESTS” ???

      • Mirren10 says

        Jan 3, 2015 at 8:56 pm

        ”Ever wonder why all these ” poor Muslim refugees” never head for North Africa and join their Muslim brothers in those Islamic paradises.????????”

        And why does no-one point out that 99% of these ‘refugees’ are **male** ? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I have yet to see photographs of these ‘refugees’ which include *women and children*.

        They are all young, healthy, *males*. Says a lot for mohammedan bravery/chivalry ! sarc/off.

    • BC says

      Jan 3, 2015 at 5:35 am

      Connection of France to this article?

      • particolor says

        Jan 3, 2015 at 5:46 am

        The clip wont work but I saw it on another Site !! What took 3 days for it to appear ?? ..
        Did someone have to Reluctantly Clear it ??

      • particolor says

        Jan 3, 2015 at 5:54 am

        Its working now ! But You have to click on “News” when You get there OK ?

  3. Know Thy Enemy says

    Jan 3, 2015 at 3:14 am

    I’ll be honest…. there have been times when I have had evil thoughts….. Thoughts such as “If I ever do become a Muslim, what kind of Muslim would I like to be?” And the answer has always been a no-brainer, and always the same: A Mullah (or Mufti or cleric) of course! Those are the guys who command the most respect, influence, and power in their communities, and that is an understatement.

    And I believe, even now, that a heavy majority of mullahs out there believe in Islam only because of the power that this position commands. They don’t actually take the sh!t seriously. Otherwise let’s face it, if really dying in jihad gets one straight to jannat for eternity with zero risk of ending up in Hell, there would have been no mullahs in the world! All mullahs would have been ‘martyrs’.

    So is it a good idea for me to sell my soul to the devil…. for power? This story gives me (and everyone else who has had similar thoughts) the answer: No it is not! I might succeed in becoming a mullah and fool everyone into believing that I am their trustworthy leader and wali, and enjoy the power, but my future generations might end up actually believing the Q’rap even if they themselves become mullahs.

    Conclusion: Do not become a Muslim, even if you are guaranteed a caliphate to rule as a mufti!

  4. BC says

    Jan 3, 2015 at 5:38 am

    , if really dying in jihad gets one straight to jannat for eternity with zero risk of ending up in Hell, there would have been no mullahs in the world! All mullahs would have been ‘martyrs’.
    Ah but they are nobly denying themselves so they can persuade others to do it

    • Know Thy Enemy says

      Jan 3, 2015 at 6:19 am

      Nobly denying themselves?? Yeah right…. As if anyone will take even a slightest chance of losing out on jannat! I am sure you are being sarcastic.

  5. Angemon says

    Jan 3, 2015 at 6:16 am

  6. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 3, 2015 at 6:17 am

    There is a subtle dishonesty in AP’s referring to “the Islamic state group”, thus refraining from using “Islamic State”, the name the self-declared Islamic State calls itself. It is similar to Obama’s dishonesty in persisting to use the superseded “ISIL” because it enables him to refrain from articulating the word “Islamic”.

    The use of the word “group” enables the writer to be slightly disparaging without being inaccurate. Islamic State is indeed a “group”, a very formidable, well-funded, well-equipped group which has killed thousands, and displaced thousands, and now controls by force a very considerable territory. Cameron disparages it as a “so-called Islamic State”. He is wrong. Its claimed statehood is not “so-called”: it is self-declared, as was that of the United States of America.

    These dishonesties are for the purpose of dissociating Islam from Islamic State, thereby relieving Islam of blame. It will not wash. We do not buy it any more.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 3, 2015 at 10:18 am

      This particular ‘dishonesty’ (as you call it) has a name: the NO TRUE SCOTSMAN Fallacy.

      “No true Muslim will fight for ISIS”, (we are told). However, this is begging the question (another fallacy). The Leftards who avoid calling Islam violent have not proved that TRUE ISLAM isn’t violent. They ‘beg’ us to believe that it isn’t violent and then continue AS IF they have proved Islam ‘peaceful’.

      ‘Islam is peace’ is another fallacy called the ‘Etymological Fallacy’. The ‘original root word’ s-l-m within Islam meant peace, but Islam means either submission, appeasement or pacification, none of which exactly mean peace and all of which imply the use of force and inferiority.

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