“Kikn it in the Khilafah.” How many Muslims in Australia will heed their call for donations? Are they being tracked? “Wives of slain Melbourne jihadists beg for donations to Islamic State,” by Armando Cordoba and James Dowling, Herald Sun, March 24, 2015 (thanks to Jack): THE wives of two slain Melbourne foreign fighters are calling […]
Get ready for Erdoğan’s caliphate, Turkey’s ruling party official says
Fuat Özgür Çalapkulu has come under some fire for saying this, but in reality, many (both for and against) have remarked upon Erdoğan’s desire to restore the Ottoman caliphate. That desire also explains why Erdoğan has been slow to move against the Islamic State in any really effective way, despite cajoling from John Kerry and others: […]
Over 20,000 Muslims from outside Syria have joined the jihad there
“To underpin the dimensions of the phenomenon, the intelligence expert explains that ‘the number of direct foreign fighters in Syria is unprecedented’ and ‘exceeds’ that of those who have gone to ‘Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia or other areas in the last 20 years.’” And “foreign fighters prefer to enlist among the militias of […]
Islamic State caliph undead, calls for “volcanoes of jihad”
Reports of al-Baghdadi’s death were apparently greatly exaggerated. “ISIS chief said to call for ‘volcanoes of jihad,’ after reports he was hurt in US strike,” Reuters, November 13, 2014: Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called for attacks in Saudi Arabia, said his Caliphate was expanding across the Arab world and called for “volcanoes of […]
Georgetown University panel shows how Islamic State’s caliphate has justification in Islamic history and appeal for modern Muslims
Georgetown University panel shows how Islamic State’s caliphate has justification in Islamic history and appeal for modern Muslims by Andrew Harrod The caliphate “is not something bad . . . for the majority of Muslims,” concluded visiting professor Emad Shahin during a recent briefing titled “Boko Haram, ISIS, and the Caliphate Today” at Georgetown University’s […]
Friday sermon by Israel-based Islamic supremacist Raed Salah: Jerusalem will be capital of global caliphate
How very odd: the Islamic State, as all our leaders assure us, has nothing to do with Islam. And yet its central claim is that it has reestablished the caliphate, and somehow other Muslims outside the Islamic State seem to have the same aspiration. Why so many misunderstanders of Islam? Is John Kerry working on […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Exposed: Decade-Old Plan to Create Islamic State—and Obama Helped
[Via FrontPage Magazine] Although the birth of the Islamic state and the herald of the caliphate are often regarded as some of 2014’s “big shockers,” they were foretold in striking detail and with an accurate timeline by an al-Qaeda insider nearly one decade ago. On August 12, 2005, Spiegel Online International published an article titled […]
1,000 Muslims streaming into Syria every month to join the Islamic State
They’re coming from Europe, the U.S., and all over — with Tunisia leading the world in the number of jihadists it has sent to the Islamic State. “U.S. officials have attributed the flows to a range of factors, including the sophisticated recruiting campaigns orchestrated by groups in Syria such as the Islamic State and the […]
Two-thirds of Muslims in Egypt, Morocco, Indonesia and Pakistan support unifying all Muslim countries in caliphate
The Islamic State has proven to be much more appealing to young Muslims in Western countries than al-Qaeda or other jihad terror groups ever were. As I have pointed out many times, this is because of the attraction of the idea of the caliphate, the supranational unity of the Muslims in a single state. Now […]
Muslim leader in Israel: “Entire earth” will be “subordinate” to caliphate
Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad himself once said: “Have no doubt… Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world.” Sheik Ali Al-Faqir, former Jordanian minister of religious endowment, said this on Al-Aqsa TV on May 2, 2008: “We proclaim that we will conquer Rome, like Constantinople was […]
Tariq Ramadan: Islamic State “is not Islamic”
“They have nothing to do with [Islamic] principles because our principles are clear: that the one who is leading should be chosen by people who are followers or citizens.” When was this ever the case, in the history of the caliphates? Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman were chosen over furious opposition from the party of […]
Boko Haram top dog: “We follow the Koran…in the land of Allah”
Now wait a minute. Has John Kerry been told about this? Doesn’t Abubakar Shekau realize that what he is doing is “extremism” that has nothing to do with the Qur’an or Allah? Where are the moderate Western Muslims who are traveling to Nigeria to set Shekau straight about Islam? I am sure they will arrive […]
Soldiers of the Caliphate in Algeria “punish France…to defend our beloved Islamic State”
Herve Gourdel was beheaded just after the Islamic State called for attacks “especially” against the “spiteful and filthy French.” The Soldiers of the Caliphate in Nigeria unaccountably misunderstand Islam in the same way as the Islamic State does, and sympathize with it. “Beheading of Frenchman in Algeria won’t deter France, Hollande says,” by Kim Willsher, […]
Philippines: Islamic jihad group Abu Sayyaf pledges allegiance to the Islamic State
All the rush by Western leaders to condemn the Islamic State and pronounce it un-Islamic overlooks the very real appeal that it has for many Muslims worldwide, because of its claim to reconstitute the caliphate. Restoring the caliphate is a primary goal of every jihad group in the world. Glibly dismissing the Islamic State as […]
Islamic State releases map of 5-year plan to spread from Spain to China
The Islamic State will not succeed in advancing this far, of course. But they will murder many people as they try. “The Structure of the Islamic State (ISIS),” by Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 8, 2014 (thanks to Victor): Much has been written and said about the Islamic State […]
Guardian: Don’t look to the Qur’an to understand the Islamic State – look to the French revolution and European Christianity
The anxiousness of Western non-Muslims to establish that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam continues, with ever more farfetched explanations of how they came about. Kevin McDonald, a professor of sociology and head of the department of criminology and sociology at Middlesex University, is not the first to ascribe the evils of […]
UK prof: Islamic State has “reverted to a model that has been the reality in parts of the Islamic world for most of its history,” but “what they are perpetrating is not Islam”
The Rev. Professor David Thomas is a professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. Here he writes a very strange article. Most of it is a brief and reasonably accurate history of the caliphate, in which he notes that in declaring a caliphate, the Islamic State has “reverted to a model that […]
Hostage’s mother appeals to caliph, lectures him on Islam
Shirley Sotloff is a grieving mother, and so whatever she says can be excused under that rubric. Nonetheless, her video is fascinating in numerous ways. She tells the caliph that her son was over there to chronicle the suffering of Muslims — i.e., look, Abu Bakr, this guy could be useful to you alive. She […]
Nigeria: Boko Haram top dog says seized town “part of Islamic caliphate”
The Islamic State’s caliphate? He didn’t say, although he has previously expressed support for that one. He may be establishing his own. This kind of infighting may be the last hope for Infidels at the mercy of clueless and compromised leaders. “Nigerian town seized by Boko Haram ‘part of Islamic caliphate’: leader,” by Aminu Abubakar, […]
Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti denounces Islamic State as “enemy number one of Islam”
“Although senior Wahhabi clerics endorse execution by beheading for offences that include apostasy, adultery and sorcery, oppose women driving or working and describe Shi’ites as heretics, they differ from al Qaeda and Islamic State militants in opposing violent revolt.” That is the closest this report gets to what this is really about. The Grand Mufti […]