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Gaza jihad group pledges allegiance to the Islamic State

Sep 11, 2015 9:21 am By Robert Spencer

The appeal of the Islamic State’s claim to reconstitute the caliphate continues to draw Muslims to it from all over the world, while Western leaders wave the Islamic State away with the claim that it is not Islamic, voluntarily forgoing the opportunity to understand the group’s motives and goals and thereby devise ways to counter it more effectively.

Jaish al-Islam = Army of Islam. Not that this has anything to do with…Islam.

jaish-al-islam in Damascus

“Gaza’s Jaish Al-Islam ISIS Allegiance? Jihadi Group Statement Proclaims Devotion To The Islamic State,” by Morgan Winsor, International Business Times, September 11, 2015:

One of Gaza’s oldest and most powerful jihadi groups, Jaish al-Islam, has reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. The short statement attributed to Jaish al-Islam Wednesday has raised fears the militant group also known as ISIS has successfully swelled its official presence in the Gaza Strip. The statement, which was posted to online ISIS forums, proclaimed Jaish al-Islam as an inseparable part of the Sinai Province, an ISIS affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, according to the Jerusalem Post.

“We, the soldiers of Jaish al-Islam in the Gaza Strip and our leader Mumtaz Dughmush, may Allah preserve him, we consider ourselves to be an integral part of Wilayat Sinai [ISIS in the Sinai peninsula],” the online statement said. “We pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurayshi, the Caliph to all Muslims in the House of Islam and each place where Muslims reside.”

The statement continued: “We swear to our brothers that, with might, we will not stop our fight against the Jews and the apostates in Gaza and in the Sinai” until the flag of the Islamic State is raised above them, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Jaish al-Islam Rebel fighters with the Jaish al-Islam, or the Army of Islam, are shown running during a training session in Eastern al-Ghouta, a rebel-held region outside the capital Damascus on Jan. 11, 2015. The group has reportedly pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State militant group. ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images

There are suspicions, however, about the statement’s authenticity because there has been no official confirmation from the Gaza-based militant group’s leader. Some commentators on ISIS forums expressed doubt that the pledge of allegiance was real while others celebrated the statement, according to Vocativ.

If Wednesday’s pledge is in fact authentic, it would signal a strengthening of ISIS’ influence across the turbulent region from Gaza into Egypt along the Mediterranean coast. ISIS has seized sizeable chunks of Iraq and Syria since last summer.

Jaish al-Islam, or the Army of Islam, is widely considered one of the strongest rebel groups currently fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and is perhaps best known for kidnapping BBC reporter Alan Johnston in Gaza in 2006. The group also helped Hamas, which controls Gaza, to kidnap Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. Members of Jaish al-Islam published a video in early July praising ISIS, the Jerusalem Post reported.

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Filed Under: Featured, Gaza, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Palestinian jihad Tagged With: Jaish al-Islam


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  1. John C. Barile says

    Sep 11, 2015 at 10:42 am

    The Islamic State is an aggressive, metastasizing malignancy. Am I not correct to believe that Barack Hussein Obama, through his errors in policy on Iraq, his abominable interventions in Egypt and Libya, his funneling of arms to Syria, and his embrace of Islamism and the MB, has aided and abetted the rise of ISIS?

    • EYESOPEN says

      Sep 12, 2015 at 8:29 pm

      You are absolutely correct John. The Usurper-in-Chief has MUCH blood on his hands.

  2. medaber_emet says

    Sep 11, 2015 at 11:26 am

    i live quite close to Gaza and we dont have snow
    where this picture was taken?
    i am sure that not from Gaza

    • Angemon says

      Sep 11, 2015 at 6:03 pm

      Apparently, Damascus. At least the filename is jaish-al-islam-in-Damascus.jpg

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