Recently a number of Arabic language websites posted the following picture which is attributed to the official Twitter account of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Caliph Ibrahim of the Islamic State. The Arabic writing reads: “It is permissible for the mujahid [jihadi] to enjoy young boys in the absence of women.” The purported fatwa then justifies […]
Islamic State caliph: “Islam is the religion of war”
Yeah, well, John Kerry and Joe Biden and David Cameron and Pope Francis and Bishop McManus and all the rest of them, they all know so much more about Islam than the caliph Ibrahim. This “caliph” is just a Misunderstander of Islam. Everyone knows that. The fact that his message is resonating with ever-increasing numbers […]
Islamic State releases audio message purportedly from the caliph
The Iraqi government says that the caliph was seriously injured in an airstrike. The Pentagon says he wasn’t. “ISIS releases audio message purportedly from leader,” CBS News, May 14, 2015: BEIRUT — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released an audio message purportedly from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has not […]
UK’s Guardian: Islamic State’s caliph still alive, but paralyzed from spinal injury in airstrike Pentagon denies hit him
No one really knows what is going on. The Iranians are saying he is dead. “ISIS leader Baghdadi is reportedly ‘unable to move’ after a spinal injury,” by Pamela Engel, Business Insider, April 27, 2015: The head of the Islamic State is reportedly injured so badly he can barely move, Kareem Shaheen at The Guardian […]
Radio Iran: Islamic State’s caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead of injuries from airstrike Pentagon denies hit him
Now al-Baghdadi is supposed to have been killed in the airstrike that the Pentagon denies even injured him. This is very strange: it would be a major success for the airstrikes if al-Baghdadi were wounded or killed in one, so why the denial if it happened? And if it didn’t happen, where are these stories […]
Pentagon denies that Islamic State’s caliph has been wounded
So the claim that he has been wounded turns out to be yet another false report from the mainstream media — doubtless a projection of their wishful thinking, since the Islamic State is so very inconvenient to them, posing a daily challenge to their narrative that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been […]
Islamic State’s caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, again reported seriously wounded
UPDATE: Yet another false alarm. —— We have heard this before: Iraqi Isis Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘Severely Injured and Flees to Syria’ International Business Times, July 5, 2014 ISIS terror chief ‘believed dead’: Iraqi military confirm warlord WAS injured in US-led airstrike as speculation grows feared jihadist perished in attack,” Daily Mail, November 9, […]