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New Islamic State leader is Islamic scholar with degree in Sharia from University of Mosul

Jan 22, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

What? An Islamic scholar with a degree in Sharia heading up ISIS? But…but…doesn’t Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi know that ISIS has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam? Doesn’t he realize that Pope Francis tells us that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence”? Surely Pope Francis is searching for Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi right now, so as to explain to him how he is misunderstanding his peaceful religion? Isn’t he?

“Isis founding member confirmed by spies as group’s new leader,” by Martin Chulov and Mohammed Rasool, Guardian, January 20, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The new leader of Islamic State has been confirmed as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, according to officials from two intelligence services. He is one of the terror group’s founding members and has led the enslavement of Iraq’s Yazidi minority and has overseen operations around the globe.

The Guardian has learned that Salbi was named leader hours after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October. The name that the group gave for Baghdadi’s replacement at the time, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, was a nom de guerre not recognised by other senior leaders or intelligence agencies.

In the three months since the raid that killed Baghdadi, a fuller picture of Salbi has been pieced together by regional and western spies, placing him at the centre of Isis decision-making – and that of its forerunners – and portraying him as a hardened veteran in the same vein as Baghdadi, unflinching in his loyalty to the extremist group.

Salbi is considered to be one of the most influential ideologues among the now depleted ranks of Isis. Born into an Iraqi Turkmen family in the town of Tal Afar, he is one of the few non-Arabs among the leadership.

He is also known by the nom de guerre Haji Abdullah, and in some circles as Abdullah Qardash – although Iraqi officials suggest the latter was a separate Isis figure who died two years ago.

Salbi, as intelligence officials now know him, rose through the ranks helped by his background as an Islamic scholar and gave religious rulings that underwrote the genocide against Yazidis and the emptying of the Nieveh Plains in northern Iraq during the height of the Isis rampage. Salbi holds a degree in sharia law from the University of Mosul. In 2004 he was detained by US forces in Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq where he met Baghdadi. He is believed to have at least one son….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Muslim clerics Tagged With: Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi


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  1. Buraq says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 3:12 pm

    There’s a Beatles song “Hello, Goodbye”. I wonder if this clown has ever heard it? He probably won’t hear the drone hovering overhead with a Soleimani rocket being launched from it either! Then there’s Queen, “Another one bites the dust.” Nah, not that one either, inshallah!

    • Alkimos says

      Jan 22, 2020 at 5:31 pm

      They will have to write his name on the rocket in real small letters..It reads like bad novel..or use a bigger rocket..now there’s a plan.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 23, 2020 at 7:18 pm

        Hilarious!

  2. Westman says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 3:13 pm

    Another well-defined drone target takes the stage for a whirling dervish. As the outlaw says while shooting at the tenderfoot’s toes, “keep dancin’!”

  3. Mischief Maker in the Land says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 3:19 pm

    Does he like dogs?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2020 at 4:44 pm

      He probably likes hurting them…

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 3:25 pm

    That brutal ,cruel and murderous jihad organization that is known as the Islamic “state “ is, as described and explain above , based in Sharia law

    Therefore it should be made clear that the actual origin of Sharia law is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.

    There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started.

    Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.

    In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam. Therefore Islam is a hoax.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2020 at 4:45 pm

      It also shows how barbaric Islam is. Who else uses such savage laws? No one.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 3:30 pm

    As for those brutal, cruel and vile ISIS jihadist /Muslims kidnapping Yazidi girls and women and using them as sex slaves. This actually started with the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad, who all Muslims look to as an example of how to behave. It’s revealed in the book JESUS AND THE JIHADIS: CONFRONTING THE RAGE OF ISIS by the Christian authors Graig A. Evans and Jeremiah J. Johnson For on page 124 it informs the reader “Muhammad endorsed enslavement of all types…he endorsed sex-slavers as a gift form Allah , and enjoyed offering sex-slaves as gifts…” Further page 125 informs the reader that “Islam has enslaved more people than any other culture.”

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 3:38 pm

    This new jihadist chief of ISIS, Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, as al-Baghdadi was, a figurehead and a puppet rulers of ISIS.

    .For the actual and real head and chief of that heinous and dangerous jihad organization is someone else. Who that “someone else” has been exposed in the book entitled THE ISIS CRISIS by Charles Dyer. For on page 166 the author explains that “The ultimate commander of ISIS remains unseen by most of his followers, but he is not unknown. This commander is Satan himself… Satan moves across the earth ‘like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.’ [First Peter 5:8.]

    Therefore, the vicious jihadist thugs who compose ISIS are, in realty, vicious, malicious and deluded fools who are being use by Satan, as his stooges and tools, to inflict demonic murderous harm on humankind. So must so that those violent wicked and insanely deluded jihad savages who make up ISIS are like those callous characters described in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. That 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.”

    In addition, those malice-filled fiendish jihadists of ISIS are so very bloodthirstily, ruinous dangerous and murderous that they are similar to, in character, the hideous villains described in the Bible. Which reads “Their feet are swift to shed blood: ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” Romans 3:15-17. [N.I.V.]

  7. mortimer says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 3:51 pm

    Salbi has chosen to be the most-hunted man on earth. His fanaticism is no doubt unimaginable. If only someone could convince him that the Koran is of human origin, he would be forced to abandon his career of savage cruelty.

    If a man with a degree in Islamic studies does not understand Islam, then who does?

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 22, 2020 at 4:08 pm

      mortimer says,

      “If only someone could convince him that the Koran is of human origin, he would be forced to abandon his career of savage cruelty”.

      You have overlooked the possibility that perhaps Salbi actually would ENJOY a career of savage cruelty – regardless of knowledge regarding the human origin of the Koran.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 22, 2020 at 4:52 pm

        Spot on, James. Power, inspiring fear, holding slaves and sex slaves–something that would appeal to most Muslims.

        • Or Else! says

          Jan 23, 2020 at 9:08 am

          And there’s always the allure of the “promised” hedonism that awaits the murderer/martyr.

          What a system.

          You don’t want to kill unbelievers and risk killing yourself? Too bad. You’ll likely be in hell, missing out 72 of the hottest babes, the best wine, the greatest food, boys like hidden pearls….

          Corrupt from the word GO.

  8. mortimer says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 3:57 pm

    The atrocities of ISIS under al-Baghdadi caused a lot of Muslims to re-examine Islam and many abandoned it when they discovered that ISIS taught pure, original Islam. Perhaps when Salbi begins directing savage atrocities, even more Muslims will have to admit that Islam is actually more like the version of Salbi and al-Baghdadi than the white-washed fantasy version of Islam taught by Pope Francis.

    Pope Francis is simply spreading spontaneous BS about Islam, because he hasn’t done the reading required to know Islamic teachings about Al Walaa wal Baraa and jihad … the motivation and the method of Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm

      Mortimer–with all respect–do you have any data to back up the claim that lots of Muslims have left Islam because of ISIS? Instead, it seems that Muslims have either denied that ISIS has anything to do with Islam, or–much worse–flocked to the Islamic State precisely *because* they knew that these horrors were Islam in action.

      • elee says

        Jan 22, 2020 at 8:53 pm

        I much admire the depth of mortimers acquaintance with Islam. I challenge his optimism from tie to time. Wouldnt it be a wonderful thing if he turns out to be right? And he could plausibly have a point there, since its pretty clear that most doubts and apostasies in Islam remain private events.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 22, 2020 at 9:22 pm

          Like you, elee, I have the greatest respect for Mortimer’s knowledge about Islam. and I *do* wish that Mortimer were right about “deprogramming” and about hordes of Muslims spontaneously leaving Islam–but I see little evidence for this being so.

          I also think that if we all assume that Islam is going to shortly cease being a danger all by itself in the near future, that this might be almost as dangerous as our assuming that Islam is not a threat to begin with.

          This is one case where I would *love* to be proven wrong, though.

  9. FYI says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 3:58 pm

    “islamic scholars”

    I’m not sure islamic “scholarship” can be taken seriously:they have been at it for 1,400 years

    According to the koran,Mary is in the Trinity k5:116.
    Mary is not in the Trinity:that is theologically wrong.

    1,400 years of islamic “scholarship” and they MISSED it?

    Also alalh says the Bible is True k3:3.At the time the koran was written down any Bible in existence would have to be true.

    In the Bible:the Golden rule,the Exodus 20 commandments etc,the Theology of the Trinity,That Jesus is a Jew,the Holy Spirit of God’s Wisdom

    What’s MISSING in the koran:the Golden Rule,the Exodus 20 commandments etc,a correct understanding of the Trinity….Jesus is muslim and allh doesn’t know what the Holy Spirit is{he can’t since alalh thinks MARY is in the Trinity:mary,jesus and allah,so no Holy Spirit is in the koran}

    allah even tells muslims to consult the Bible koran 10:94 if in doubt

    If allah confirms the Bible as TRUE k3;3 and the koran teaches the contrary isn’t it obvious the koran is in ERROR?

    1,400 years of islamic “scholarship”………!

  10. Wellington says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 4:19 pm

    Well, I think Joe Biden should definitely have a talk with him and, let’s not forget, when Ayaan Hirsi Ali raised the “matter” of Islam being possessed of endemic problems, Biden replied, “Let me tell you a few things about Islam.”

    Oh yeah, we need Joe Biden to come to the rescue again to set things straight about Mo’s creed. Who can doubt this?

    N.B., Biden actually, really, verily, etc., still has a shot at the Democratic Party’s choice for President in this year’s election. Sobering, no? And just as sobering, if not more so, is that EVERY other Democratic Party candidate for President in 2020 essentially and effectively thinks as Biden does about Islam. To put things mildly, we are in deep shit if ANY Democratic candidate in 2020 for POTUS is elected. Yeah, this bad and then some. And one knows this or should know this. Sadly, tens of millions of American voters do not—heaps of Democrats, wishy-washy moderates (for the record, I know of no great moment in “moderate history”) and we have to throw many RINOs into this mix too.

    Definitely time for a beer. Who can doubt this?

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 22, 2020 at 4:33 pm

      Wellington says,

      “To put things mildly, we are in deep shit if ANY Democratic candidate in 2020 for POTUS is elected.”

      Absolutely 100% true. Pres. Trump, who is doing a great job – under great duress, is still trying to clean up the mess left for him by Pres. Obama.

      Keep America Great !!!

      TRUMP 2020 !!!

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2020 at 4:57 pm

      Biden is a silly fool at best. Him mouthing off to Ayaan Hirsi Ali like this is grimly laughable.

      The even more alarming thing is that he is probably by default the least worst individual among the frontrunning Dems when it comes to Islam–and a lot of other things.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 4:47 pm

    New Islamic State leader is Islamic scholar with degree in Sharia from University of Mosul
    ………………………

    Gee–a scholar of Islam, just like Al-Baghdadi. One might almost think that the Islamic State has something to do with Islam…

  12. tim gallagher says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 4:50 pm

    “An Islamic scholar with a degree in Sharia”. So this barbaric character has spent his time learning all about the totally barbaric rules that Sharia law demands be applied to all the unfortunate people who inhabit a Muslim country. I can’t see such people as scholars of any kind. It just seems to me that being a scholar requires studying something more worthwhile than garbage such as barbaric Sharia law. But that’s Islam for you. As other commenters said up above, hopefully a drone will take this evil creature out fairly quickly. To be the leader of evil ISIS, you would have to be an extraordinarily evil human being. It is reaching the top of the pile of evil people.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2020 at 4:59 pm

      How could we ever have hoped to civilize the Iraqis when universities there offer degrees in Sharia?

  13. tim gallagher says

    Jan 22, 2020 at 5:09 pm

    Yes, gravenimage, degrees in Sharia and calling some creature studying such garbage a “scholar”!! My reaction was, what an unbelievably sick joke. But that’s Islam, the last bastion of everything barbaric and backward that still exists in the modern world. Looking at Islam truly is like looking back in time or looking at some bizarre parallel universe. A degree in Sharia, now that’s a mighty intellectual endeavour.

  14. Or Else! says

    Jan 23, 2020 at 9:46 am

    Here’s a correct outline of/response to Islamic scholarship, from a former Muslim. An excellent piece by Ibn Warraq from 2018. A call to the Muslims of the world.

    https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/a-call-to-the-muslims-of-the-world/

    • Or Else! says

      Jan 23, 2020 at 9:48 am

      Above article originally published in 2004.

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