The claim of the Islamic State to constitute the caliphate resonates with so many Muslims worldwide because the caliphate, in Sunni Islamic theology, is the sole government to which all Muslims owe allegiance, transcending all national allegiances and thus turning its adherents into traitors to their homelands.
“Turkish militants in ISIL video call for slaughter in Turkey,” Today’s Zaman, October 13, 2015 (thanks to Joshua):
Turkish-speaking fighters affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a video on Twitter on Monday in which they called on the people of Turkey either to join ISIL or carry out “all-out slaughter” in the regions where they live.
In the video, which lasts almost nine minutes, the militants were seen with long beards and wearing green clothes. One of the 14 militants in the video called on the people of Turkey to “rise up and fight” against infidels, crusaders and “taghuts” — idolaters of false gods — who trick people into becoming the slaves of crusaders. He also called on people to stop committing the sins that had resulted in the people of Turkey being governed by taghuts, referring to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the interim Justice and development Party (AK Party) government.
This is the second video released by the Turkish-speaking fighters within ISIL. However, this time the group in the video was reportedly made up of militants who recently joined the terrorist group.
ISIL released a video for the first time in Turkish on Aug. 18, during which a Turkish-speaking fighter who was later identified as Fatih Acıpayam, a confectioner based in Bursa, called on the Turkish people to start a war against “treacherous” Erdoğan and to conquer İstanbul.
Acıpayam got married in Kahramanmaraş province in 1995 and has four children. According to Cihan, Acıpayam and his family lived in Isparta before moving to Bursa, where he sold cellphones and then confectionary. Acıpayam’s neighbors in Bursa told Cihan that he sold all his property and went to Syria with TL 100,000. Before leaving Bursa, Acıpayam visited his friends in a coffee shop near his house to ask for their blessings, a neighbor said….

Angemon says
Why would Turks swear allegiance to a non-turkish caliph when there’s a long history of Turkish rulers in the Ottoman empire? Me thinks da brainiacs in da islamic state are overplaying their hand…
Still, if such comes to pass, I’d love to see the look on Erdogan’s face upon learning ISIS was behind the insurrection…
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
It could be a Turk versus Arab racism thing, which has existed for a thousand years there. Another weak link in the fabric of the Islam is that the Persians regard their Arab brothers, including the Shia ones, to be racial inferiors best seen and not heard, there to be told what to do. Then there are the Kurds, yet another race group, they closely associated with the Armenian breed of Caucasians.
BC says
The Arabs were delighted to get rid of their Ottoman rulers whom they regarded as foreigners. Remember Lawrence of Arabia?
pongidae rex says
The success with which ISIL has launched a mass invasion of Europe of over 1 million Muslims simply by making their territory uninhabitable is utterly breathtaking. Say what you will about these monsters, their level of long term strategic thinking makes the ‘strategic planners’ we have in the west look like kindergarten children.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
True. Especially artful was their taking of Libya, which in turn enabled them to launch all those “refugees” by boat from Zuwarah.
Custos Custodum says
The Muslims/muharijun did not “take” Libya. Hillary and her point boy Christopher Stevens handed Libya to Muslim forces on a silver platter and apparently arranged the gang rape and murder of Libya’s bizarre but domesticated tyrant Muammar Gaddafi.
Stevens himself was gang-raped and murdered in the Muslim stronghold of Benghazi not long afterward, in a poetic reenactment of Gaddafi’s demise. Stevens had apparently assumed that his grateful Muslim friends would tolerate his kufar existence and his open homosexuality.
Custos Custodum says
Correction & Amplification:
Muhajirun (plural), i.e. those performing hijra (migration) to colonize for Islam. Note the key consonants h-j-r in muhajir and hijra,
BC says
Odd is it not that the ‘refugees’ are supposed to be fleeing IS but the EU and US Muslims are desperately trying to get to join IS. Why are the ‘refugees’ not flocking to join IS?
Obviously the attractions of IS are not as great as the economic benefits EU has to offer.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Caliph Ibrahim needs to tell these jackasses that instability in Turkey may for our ally to stop transshipping all that Mosul oil to market. That would cut off the New Caliphate’s cash flow, which would impede its current rapid expansion of terror operations. No oil sales and they won’t have the dough to buy nuclear material for use in a bomb in Europe or America. Then what do they do? There is no free lunch, and Jihad ain’t free. Sure they have a bloodthirsty hatred for Erdogan, and that’s fine, but they need to be practical here.
Jerry says
Why are the Mosul oilfields and pipeline still working?
Obummer’s bombing of IS/Daesh is just for show.
The Americans originally funded and armed the Taliban
as a surrogate force agains the Russians.
They still fund the Phakistanis who, ostensibly fight
fight the Taliban, but in reality fund it and supply it
and also fund other allied terror groups acting
agains India.
They fund the Erdgan regime which pretends to
be an ally but in turn provide funding, logistical
support,and equipment to IS/Daesh and serve
as a conduit for IS/Daesh oil sales to the rest
of the world.
Sam says
Where can I watch the video? I speak Turkish and I want to find out what they are really saying so I can send it to my liberal, socialist, communist friends in Turkey.
abad says
The whole concept of an Islamic State is every Muslim’s dream, Quran and Hadith endorsed there NO Muslim on this planet should be complaining about ISL.
They wanted it, they need to deal with it.
Bed. Made. Lie.
Gary says
Oh the false religion of peace, once again reveals how bankrupt it truly is……
“If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?” (1 John 4:20)
Muslims can scream Allahu akbar all they want.
Bottom line….
“Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.” (1 John 5:1)
maria says
Chickens coming home to roost.
kay says
Re Robert Spencer: “the caliphate, in Sunni Islamic theology, is the sole government to which all Muslims owe allegiance, transcending all national allegiances and thus turning its adherents into traitors to their homelands.”
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TRUTH.
Here Robert Spencer is giving a free master class in the politics and culture of Islam. This is NOT a personal opinion. Robert Spencer is simply telling it like it is. And understanding this point is crucially important.
Why do we know he’s right? Simple. The jihadis of Islamic State come from NINETY countries. This a big international criminal operation well supported by militant bloodthirsty Muslims from around the world.
Turkey is crucially important for several key reasons: jihadi movement to Islamic State, oil sales, and export of massive amounts of migrants. Erdogan has been and remains a strong supporter of Islamic State, and yet here is the beginning of a bid to replace him. There is no honor among thieves nor Islamists.
Altho Muslims fight non-Muslims, they also frequently fight among themselves. Jihadis will approach a Muslim mosque and start slaughtering the Muslims inside just as easily as they slaughter Christians or Jews or journalists in many lands. And the Syria / Iraq wars are mainly Shia / Sunni Islamic civil war, as is the strife in Yemen.
Islam is war in all directions, and Turkey is being sucked into the violent insanity of the criminal Islamic State, a pure Sunni Islam/ Wahhabi / Salafist Caliphate. The fundamentally transnational and military character of Islam, the so-called “Religion of Peace” is seen here.
These Turkish jihadis are true believers and sociopaths. And Islamic State is expanding in power and influence, in the capacity to do harm and create chaos. There is tremendous international support for Islamic State, so they are extremely dangerous.
gravenimage says
Turkish Muslims in Islamic State video call for jihad slaughter in Turkey
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And this, even though Erdogan has been doing so much to enable the Islamic State. Still–Turkey is not considered Islamic enough, so none of this savagery should surprise. *Ugh*.