The Islamic State now has a presence not just in Iraq and Syria, but in Libya, Nigeria, the Philippines, Egypt, Yemen, and Afghanistan and Pakistan. Its influence is spreading rapidly among Muslims worldwide while Western leaders wave it away and insist that it has nothing to do with Islam.
“Islamic State’s Af-Pak Group a Cause of Concern for India: RAW Warns PMO,” by Yatish Yadav, New Indian Express, May 1, 2015:
NEW DELHI: The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), country’s premier spy agency, has warned the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that the Islamic State’s (IS) Af-Pak group — Wilayat Khurasan (WK) — and its links to various Pakistani establishments are a matter of concern for the country.
In January, the IS had declared the formation of WK and appointed former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Hafiz Saeed Khan the ‘Wali’ of Khurasan and Abdur Rauf Khadim the Deputy Wali.
Hafiz is said to have been killed while planting an IED in Khyber Agency in Pakistan, but his death is not yet confirmed.
RAW said Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost has been appointed WK’s religious head and a judge and Asmatullah Muawiya is given the charge of military leader.
Muslim Dost, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, was handed over to Pakistan in 2008 and was a key member of a Salafi group of Kunar, the Jamaat Ul Dawa Al Quran (JDQ).
RAW has suggested that the JDQ has links to Hafiz Muhammad Saeed’s terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiyaba in the tribal areas of Af-Pak region.
A Punjabi Taliban leader, formerly linked to TTP and Al Qaeda, Asmatullah Muawiya had made peace with the Pak army last year and had threatened India recently.
RAW, while raising its concerns, told the PMO that they have got inputs suggesting that the IS is operational in the Af-Pak region and it needs to be probed further.
“However, the creation of the WK and its possible exchanges with the the Pak establishment are a matter of concern for India,” the RAW told the PMO….
pongidae rex says
Unfortunately, ISIS is the Islamic ‘reformation’ that the ‘moderate Islam’ crowd has been predicting for some time. Islam is simply not reforming itself as Western magical thinking had hoped. A ‘reformation’ implies a return to pure origins. The origins of Islam are in pure savagery. It is no accident that Muslims all over the world are flocking to ISIS. There is no such thing as moderate Islam. There is only Islam. Moderate Islam is the aberration that the Islam of ISIS is reforming itself from. The leadership of the West still does not comprehend this thing that confronts our survival.
Don McKellar says
That’s right! No such thing as moderate Islam, only moderate moslems who are simply lax in their Islam. This is the core concept which moslems don’t want everybody else to know, and that the deluded left-fascists don’t want to know and refuse to hear about, as they view moslems through a racist lens as some sort of protected minority. And, to be fair, we can also throw in a lot of the guilty Right — whose eyes are focused strictly on the profit for the US Military Industrial Complex and US Big Oil.
Such a simple, obvious truth, and the world in the 21st Century is embattled in a propaganda war to stop it from being recognized! It’s astonishing that we have come to this.
ermin says
Humans the only specious ever that declared war against itself while trying to protect everything else the planet the Eco system Wild life , what an insane creatures are we , people don’t feel anything for each other anymore when a human dies or have it tough in life no body cares but if it was a dog everyone awwwwww
Know Thy Enemy says
people don’t feel anything for each other anymore when a human dies or have it tough in life no body cares….
Well…. this is why humans should get married, make a home, and have children! ….. And keep a dog 🙂
Truth Seeker says
Every Muslim has to a Jihadi. Some are open and many are Stealth. Many may mistake, as ‘Moderate’. According to Walid Shoebat, these so called Moderate are Trojan Horses.
We-Willy says
Sharia-is-sharia-is-SHARIA whether it is preached from the mosques of Mogadishu ,Jalalabad, Islamabad , Mecca …..
The Islamic state’s puritanical sharia will be tolerated , sharia-is-sharia-is-sharia whether it manifests itself in a hijab,niqab or burqa { the whole nine yards of Wahhabi crazy, we have Canadian females fighting for the acceptance of the black-sack ! } .
Muslims will not criticize sharia that would be tantamount to heresy. The Taliban,Boko Haram, Hamas, al-Qaeda ,Hezbollah, al-Shabaab and the Saudi Salafists {keepers of Islam’s holy sites} ect…. all implement nefarious forms of sharia with impunity.
It wasn’t one giant leap for mankind but one small step for a vicious and vindictive flavour of sharia that transformed a relatively modern Afghani society of the 1960’s into one worshipping a malicious totalitarian ideology . A society that valued its beasts of burden more than they valued their woman, a society frightened to death by educated girls , while main-stream Islam { & IT’S ‘LIBERATED’ muslimahs} conveniently looked the other way ……… ….. ignoring their sisters being brutalized ……… from Afghanistan to Zanzibar, vast swatches of humanity are submitted ,in varying degrees, by pernicious divine laws…… sharia-is-sharia-is-sharia ,
“Islam is a “supremacist socio-political system” that “will not coexist in the same place as democracy.” “Islam is a system that Allah revealed to dominate all other religions,”…….. Western political and judicial structures: they must fall. They must give way to Islam. There will be no governance but Islamic governance. This must be the case, because Allah has decreed it so….. this MSM { Main-stream-Mindset } is why Islam will accept ISIS’s pernicious sharia!
Do not expect MSM { Main –Stream-Muslims } to protest and demand a renaissance , demanding for an ideological reformation that would ultimately divests itself of sharia and the jihad to implement it , the pot of gold that comes with the implementation of sharia drives the zealotry .
Dazzle says
Spot on,
Amazingly those who pass for our leaders do not wish to understand. Fear and self preservation are driving factors. If we do nothing maybe it will all just go away?
Unemployment in the EU is at catastrophic levels, especially amongst the under 25’s where hundreds of thousands of young lives are being wasted. These people are not really important though – better that the EU throw billions of Euros in grants and soft loans to Islamic Turkey,
Islamic Turkey’s candidature for EU membership is supported by most EU country leaders.
The sums provided by European taxpayers rise inexorably each and every year. Money is being spent to “build infrastructure”, for example on bridges, trains and track, shopping malls, roads, earthquake protection, water supplies, drains and sewage works….and also to establish institutions and systems that mean Islamic Turkey and its near 80 million population will be able to join the EU.
It is great for international businesses who are located in “special zones”, manpower is cheap and there are stunning tax incentives. So is that why Ford has been busily re-locating investment and jobs to Islamic Turkey? There are hundreds of companies that have done the same.
So the monolithic EU machine exports jobs and investment, destroys the lives of EU citizens who have lost their employment and we pay for it all!
A decidedly autocratic and Islamic Turkish president and prime minister are of course seeking more money. Turkey needs to keep its 1 million strong armed forces well equipped and up to date.
Walter Sieruk says
Wherever they are or wherever they come from the Muslims thugs who compose ISIS will not get away with all the cruel ,brutal and murderous evil. It will all come back on them in the end and come back hard. As they say “What goes around ,comes around.” The reason that this saying is true is because it’s upheld in the Bible. For the Bible teaches “A man reaps as he sows.” Galatians 6:7. Of all the strange and odd things, the ISIS villains might be so thoroughly wicked, warped, sick and deluded , because of their religion, that they might actually think of all the terrible deadly violence they commit as something that is “good.” If this is the case with those callous characters of ISIS that they view their evil as “good” then the Bible teaches about those who have such as wicked, warped, sick and deluded way of thinking as to see evil and “good.” For the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” Isaiah 5:20. Furthermore, the evil and mad mindset of those ISIS fiends may be described in the Bible. Which teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” Ecclesiastes 9:3. Moreover, the ISIS fiends are so awful that they gather together against Christians and then go even further in their extreme wickedness to even murder children. This type of hideous evil is described in the Bible. Which reads “They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.” Psalm 94:21. It may also be said that the terrible violence of the ISIS men is so horrendous that the curse that is found in the Bible might, very well, be on them. For the Bible reads “May disaster hunt down men of violence.” Psalm 140:11. [N.I.V.]
Lia Wissing says
Also check the judgment in the Valley of Jehoshaphat: the yardstick will be our (& our nations’) treatment of Israel.