[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 […]
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 […]