The Islamic State has already won the loyalty of Boko Haram in Nigeria and many other jihad groups worldwide. Its claim to be the caliphate is validated every day, in the eyes of those who accept that claim, by the fact that none of those who have vowed to destroy the Islamic State have yet managed to do so.
“Al-Shabaab Faction Pledges Loyalty to ISIS After Killing 150 Christian Students,” by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post (thanks to Pamela Geller):
A senior spiritual leader of the al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia, which earlier this year massacred close to 150 Christian students, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria.
“We, the mujahideen of Somalia, declare allegiance to the caliph as Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim al-Awad al-Qurashi,” Abdiqadir Mumin, an al-Shabaab commander in the Puntland region of Somalia, said in an audio tape, according to Reuters.
CNN pointed out that move further fractures al-Shabaab, as most of its remaining leaders are loyal to al Qaeda.
“The al-Shabaab-linked source told CNN that members of the group now fear for their lives as other political leaders systematically try to root out possible IS supporters within their ranks,” the report stated.
Al-Qaeda and IS remain in a rivalry for power, despite their shared opposition to the Western world. A great point of contention has been IS’ attacks and conquest of several cities in Syria, which went against al Qaeda’s wishes.
IS has recruited several other known terror groups, including Nigerian militants Boko Haram. Other groups from across the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Africa have all rallied under the jihadist banner as well.
Al-Shabaab made international news headlines in April when it murdered 152 people, mostly Christian students, in an attack on Garissa University College in Kenya. The mas shooting was carried out by four al-Shabaab gunmen, who purposeful separated Christian from Muslim students, before murdering the Christians.
The massacre sparked the #147notjustanumber social media campaign, named after the original death toll, which hoped to remind the world that the victims were real people with real lives that were taken away.
The Somali terror group has continued clashing with regional and African Union troops throughout the year, and during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan made pledges to murder “non-believers.”
“We are planning to give Kenyan non-believers a true taste of Jihad [the holy war] in the next few days and weeks,” a senior al-Shabaab commander said back in June.
CNN noted that only about 100 al-Shabaab fighters are expected to defect to IS, with mostly younger jihadists being drawn to IS, as the group is also known….

Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I wonder if Caliph Ibrahim will reject Sheick Shekau’s pledge of allegiance. True, his guys mass murdered that row of Coptics on the beach in Libya, and dipped those Infidels into the water to drown, and are now blowing up Palmyra with non-Moslems strapped to the ancient columns… but is mass murdering 150 school children too much for the Islamic Way? I mean, yeah, there was the Beslan mass murder, but that job was done by white guy Mujahidin, so it was messed up.
Here is my bold call out to the New Caliph: where is the lowest point of the bar beneath which your Mujahidin will not be allowed do the Limbo? Show us the bottom rung so we can better decide whether to submit!
gravenimage says
I’m doubt there *is* a moral point below which these pious Muslims will not go, APF.
richie says
Meanwhile the Pope is more concerned with climate change
Jay Boo says
NPR is in lock step sympathy with those who killed the 150 students
While they are all to quick to say nothing to do with Islam, they don’t mind spreading a wild conspiracy theory against Kenyan security forces in the disappearance of Muslim instigators.
NPR’s (Someone Said Journalism)
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/31/436377450/some-suspect-kenyan-anti-terror-forces-in-disappearance-of-somali-muslims
mortimer says
Religious, pious Muslims are flocking to join ISIS. Why do Western politicians believe they understand Islam better than PhD Caliph al Baghdadi or the tens of millions of Muslims who desire what the Caliph is delivering? Strict Sharia law under a caliphate?
Who is telling Western politicians like Obama and Cameron that they are well-informed about Islam?
Angemon says
CNN’s usual damage control.
mortimer says
“mostly younger jihadists being drawn to IS”
That is the problem. RADICAL ISLAMIC CHIC is prevalent among Muslim youth worldwide.
Walter Sieruk says
Those jihadists Al Shabaab who murdered such a large number of Christians is further proof that Islam is really a death cult. These murderous jihadist Muslims are acting out the violent destruction and killing that is part of the doctrines of the Koran..As seen in the Koran 47:4. Furthermore these Al Shabaab Muslims as well as the ISIS Muslims violent ,destructive and murdering that they ,in character , are similar to the heinous villains described in the Bible. Which reads “Their feet are swift to shed blood; Destruction and misery are their ways, and the way of peace they have not known.” Romans 3:15-17. [K.J.V.]
Westman says
More “JV” team players in the Jihad Bowl. The JV team analogy is is a poor fit because the “JV” team players are all on the field at the same time and growing in numbers as fast as they are eliminated. Then there is the problem of switching sides.
Mirren10 says
But, caliph ibrahim is an **imam**, and therefore, according to the Lyon court,( aka the new Vichy government) must not be *stigmatised* !!
What are you, APF, some kind of greasy islamophobe ?
gravenimage says
All too true, Mirren:
“France: Policeman suspended for two years for criticizing the Islamic State’s caliph”
“I am accused of having created an anonymous Facebook page in September 2014, showing several “provocative” images and commentaries, ‘discriminatory and injurious’, of a ‘xenophobic or anti-Muslim’ nature. As an example, there was that portrait of the Calif al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State, with a visor on his forehead. This publication was exhibited during my appearance before the discipline committee with the following accusation: ‘Are you not ashamed of stigmatizing an imam in this way?’”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/france-policeman-suspended-for-two-years-for-criticizing-the-islamic-states-caliph
Utter madness…
Walter Sieruk says
The cruel and murderous members of Al Shabaab may well have joined their forces together in some kind of an alliance with the other vicious and murdering jihadists thugs how compose ISIS. Nevertheless such a join of forces will in the long run do them no good .For they will get what they deserve in the end. As the Bible teaches in Proverbs 11:21. “Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
As the those violent and deadly al Shabaab jihadists who murdered all those Christians. Those Muslims of Al Shabaab where action out according to the instructing of the doctrine of violence and killing that is part of the teachings of the Holy book’ of Islam ,the Koran, As seen in for example 9:5,111. 47:4. Nevertheless there are still some who might understandably ask “Just how can those members of al Shabaab and ISIS , being so very religious, also be so malicious ,vicious malice-filled and murderous ?” The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches that there are some people who are so callous, unfeeling,heartless and dangerous because that have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [N.K.J.V.] The”hot iron” in this case is Islam.
Joseph says
“The al-Shabaab-linked source told CNN that members of the group now fear for their lives …”
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It is really a sad day when terror groups do not fear the free world but only fear other terror organizations.
MY MY, how far the West has fallen into the pit of the “sins of omission”. Jesus is going to be upset (very) for the inaction of the West while His children are dying.
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Maybe Sec. of State John “potato-head” Kerry can help al-Shabaab feel safe again (sarc/off)
ballotcode says
I’m wondering if 150 was a big enough SACRIFICE to appease their god?
This whole thing is about spilling blood, taking lives, death, and destruction.
Is there some “spiritual being” that is known for this sort of behavior and has the same goals as these Mohamedans?
Mo says
@ ballotcode
“Is there some “spiritual being” that is known for this sort of behavior and has the same goals as these Mohamedans?
Of course – Satan, who comes only to steal, kill and destroy.
Matthieu Baudin says
If all these moron groups cluster tightly together then we won’t have to discriminate too much about how we deal with them.
gravenimage says
A senior spiritual leader of the al-Shabaab militant group in Somalia, which earlier this year massacred close to 150 Christian students, has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria.
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This is the sort of murderous thug that passes for a “spiritual leader” in Islam…
kay says
This page has now been shared out to the Google+ group
“Kafir and Proud”.
https://plus.google.com/b/105484973338472780925/communities/110180878554154697741
This reaches over nine hundred subscribers.