• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Jihadists kill their own relatives in Iraq but shove “Islamophobia” down our throats

Jun 19, 2016 11:08 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Westerners who have bought into the victimology subterfuge of the “Islamophobia” narrative seem to have a mental block about how far-reaching jihadist violence is and the magnitude of the devastation experienced by its real victims. Jihadist victimization includes terrorism against the West, threats to the State of Israel, persecution of Christians, severe abuse of women and girls (Muslim and non-Muslim), and Muslim-on-Muslim violence, the latter of which includes relatives warring against relatives in Iraq.

The article below points out: “When Iraqi Sunnis talk about fighting the Islamic State, it is not a discussion of some shadowy and unknowable force. It is about sons and brothers, nephews and neighbors.”

This dark force of Islamic jihad is expansive, and knows no boundaries….

death-muslims

“A War of Brothers in Iraq: ‘I Will Kill Him With My Own Hands,’” by Tim Arango and Filih Hassan, The New York Times, June 18, 2016:

FALLUJA, Iraq — In the days leading up to the storming of Falluja by Iraqi forces, Brig. Gen. Hadi Razaij, the leading Sunni police commander in the campaign, sat on a cot in an abandoned house near the front line. He described the resistance that lay ahead: a determined force of hundreds of jihadists that had months to prepare.

General Razaij’s presence on the battlefield shows that local Sunnis, and not just the Shiite forces that now dominate Iraqi politics, are fighting to liberate their own communities, and has helped tamp down fears that the battle for Falluja would heighten sectarian tensions.

He was dispassionate as he described the challenges, but for him the fight was personal, too. General Razaij’s brother stands accused of being a member of the Islamic State and is in a prison cell after being arrested at a checkpoint with a car full of explosives.

In northern Iraq, Nofal Hammadi, the governor-in-exile of Mosul, is working with the United States to plan for that city’s liberation from the Islamic State. He, too, has family in the fight: Mr. Hammadi’s brother is an Islamic State official, having appeared in a video pledging his allegiance to the terror group and disowning his brother.

Even as the central question of Iraq remains unanswered — whether the country’s Sunni minority and Shiite majority can ever peacefully coexist in a unified state — the experiences of General Razaij, Mr. Hammadi and others add a troubling corollary: It is not clear that Iraq’s divided Sunnis will ever be able to find peace among themselves after a conflict that in many ways is playing out as a war within families.

After all, when Iraqi Sunnis talk about fighting the Islamic State, it is not a discussion of some shadowy and unknowable force. It is about sons and brothers, nephews and neighbors.

“Today we don’t necessarily need reconciliation between Sunnis and Shiites,” General Razaij said. “We need reconciliation among one sect.”

(General Razaij has given conflicting statements about his jailed brother, telling the local news media that he had disowned him. But in an interview with The New York Times, he said he believed his brother was innocent.)

General Razaij was asked how many of his men were fighting against brothers or other close relatives who had joined the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. “It’s so many,” he said.

One of General Razaij’s men, Salih Ibrahim Sharmoot, is a policeman from Falluja who has been fighting along the city’s southern edge — a battle in which government forces made quick and surprising gains on Friday, capturing the main government compound.

He said his brother Muwafaq joined ISIS in 2013. Antigovernment fervor was running strong in Falluja, in opposition to the sectarian policies of Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the prime minister at the time, who had ordered the mass arrests of Sunni men on often unsubstantiated terrorism charges.

“If I catch him during the battles, I will kill him with my own hands because he is a criminal,” Mr. Sharmoot said about his brother.

For Iraq ever to be at peace with itself after the end of the Islamic State, it will require reconciliation on a number of levels, especially within the Sunni community. That minority fell from power after the United States-led invasion in 2003 and has witnessed its own decimation, with millions of its followers now displaced from their homes as fighting between government forces and ISIS rages across Sunni-dominated areas.

The last time this happened, in 2006 and 2007, it took American money and influence to pacify Sunni areas then in the grip of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner of the Islamic State. With the so-called Sunni Awakening, former insurgents were paid to switch sides and ally with the government. That required a measure of reconciliation, if not forgiveness, within the Sunni community.

This time, most everyone agrees, will be different. Without the United States as a mediator, or its money to buy loyalty, score-settling and revenge are likely to rule the day….

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Featured, Iraq, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Sunni-Shi'ite Jihad Tagged With: Fallujah, Hadi Razaij, Mosul, Nofal Hammadi


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. mortimer says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 11:38 am

    65% of Muslims believe it is their duty to impose Sharia law and a caliphate…just like ISIS. The other 35% of Muslims are non-practicing dropouts.

    In other words, 100% of practicing Muslims want what ISIS wants.

    We should understand what 100% of practicing Muslims understand.

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 11:54 am

    Western Leftards have sold out their countries in a plan of immigration for votes. They are trying to convince Western citizens that large numbers of Muslim immigrants will improve their nations, in spite of evidence that shows Muslims are less productive, violence-prone and crime-prone and refuse to assimilate or integrate, creating parallel, exclusive, alternative societies so that they may in fact create Islamic supremacism within Western states.

    Western Leftards use every means of manipulation to convince us that their program (intended merely to grab votes) will not end Western civilization, though large-scale Islamic immigration has destroyed the cultures of every country where Islam has invaded in addition to persecuting and annihilating the host peoples of those countries.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 12:54 pm

      The Left’s plot will come unstuck when the muslim communities establish their own Sharia-friendly political parties and the votes vanish.

      • Polk1970 says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 9:08 pm

        The Left/Jihadi Plot ends when Trump is Elected

  3. mortimer says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 11:55 am

    The ‘Islamophobia’ campaign is merely a way to restrict freedom of expression so no one may resist the Libtarded vote-grabbing immigration plan.

  4. Christianblood says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    (…Jihadists kill their own relatives in Iraq but shove “Islamophobia” down our throat…)

    Without the faithful political support they are getting from their traitorous enablers such as Obama, Clinton, Paul Ryan and millions of other Western, US political elites Jihadists could never have been successful in their evil jihadist tactics and their jihadist propaganda. .

    • Angemon says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 12:53 pm

      Hi CB. Treason is a cross-wind-rose phenomenon. Please watch this video where Putin tags with Erdogan and Mahmoud Abbas to open one of the largest mosques in Europe, in Moscow:

      • Richard Paulsen says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 1:14 pm

        Can afford such buildings, Still claiming money to stop poverty and islamic terrorism continuing the same politics destroying the world. Such hypocrisy.

      • Christianblood says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 2:24 pm

        Angemon

        President Putin’s attendance of a mosque opening ceremony in Russia
        is irrelevant to my comment or to the subject matter of this thread.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 20, 2016 at 6:54 pm

          Nah, it’s absolutely on-point.

      • SBJ says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 4:59 pm

        Russia doesn’t adhere to the PC that we do in the west.

        • Christianblood says

          Jun 19, 2016 at 5:35 pm

          SBJ posted

          (Russia doesn’t adhere to the PC that we do in the west).

          You are right and the West hates Russia for not being another PC,
          moral relativist nation!

        • Angemon says

          Jun 20, 2016 at 6:57 pm

          Hilarious, considering the amount of time, money and effort Russia spent spreading PC and moral relativism in the West.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 20, 2016 at 6:55 pm

          SBJ posted:

          “Russia doesn’t adhere to the PC that we do in the west.”

          How’s that working out for de-facto sharia Chechnya?

  5. Richard Paulsen says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    Disneyland in China nowadays seems more secure place for families to visit than Disneylands in the U.S.A. and Europe.

  6. Alexander the Grape says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 1:29 pm

    Angemon,

    That’s going to make a nice church in a time not too far distant.

    • Angemon says

      Jun 20, 2016 at 6:54 pm

      Don’t ever stop daydreaming 😉

  7. KrazyKafir says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 2:32 pm

    Cox and Forkum had some great anti-Jihad cartoons early on, which I suspect they regret now.

  8. linnte says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 3:06 pm

    Aren’t they ALL related to each other in one marriage of cousins to another? It’s disgusting how none of them have any loyalty to anyone or thing except Muhammad. Can’t we just leave them alone to kill each other off!?

  9. Polk1970 says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    They think he’s in Brazil,where the Olympics are about to be held.

    NOT GOOD!

  10. Plutarchus says

    Jun 20, 2016 at 9:40 am

    AMERICA IS BOTH A SUPREMLY ISLAMOPHOBIC

    and white supremacist country. Proof is that it has made a black man with Moslem family roots and a Middle Eastern name the most powerful man on earth for eight years.

    http://www.apollospeaks.com

    • Plutarchus says

      Jun 20, 2016 at 9:41 am

      CORRECTION: SUPREMELY

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Mojdeh on Audio: Robert Spencer on Muslim Brotherhood influence in a Biden/Harris administration
  • Henry Mansfield on Audio: Robert Spencer on Muslim Brotherhood influence in a Biden/Harris administration
  • Crusades Were Right on New study reveals that Muslim religiosity strongly linked to hatred towards the West
  • Naildriver on Uighur leader: ‘We’re actually quite worried’ about what Biden might let China get away with
  • Crusades Were Right on Canadian Mental Health Association studies Muslim women’s mental health due to ‘discrimination’ and ‘hate crimes’

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.