Here again we see Islamic clerics denouncing the Islamic State’s declaration of the caliphate as un-Islamic while making claims that are frankly and openly ahistorical and contrary to the Qur’an — thereby raising the question of whether their opposition to this new caliphate is genuine, or whether it is designed simply to lull non-Muslims into […]
Qaradawi, al-Azhar denounce Islamic State as un-Islamic
The title of caliph, Qaradawi said, “can ‘only be given by the entire Muslim nation’ not by a single group.” Yet that is completely ahistorical. The title of caliph has never in Islamic history been “given by the entire Muslim nation.” Caliphates have always been established by a single group that had the military might […]
Video: Robert Spencer and Michael Coren on the caliphate, Sharia in Britain and more
This is from last Friday on my regular weekly Jihad Watch segment on Michael’s Sun TV show. Video thanks to AlohaSnackbar01, who summarizes the topics: 1) Fourteen centuries of Muslim occupation and oppression of the Copts of Egypt. 2) The caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and the re-imposition of the jizya – the Muslim tax […]
Islamic State’s caliph al-Baghdadi said to be severely injured, flees to Syria
If this turns out to be true, it will be a severe setback for the nascent caliphate — but with the Islamic State’s hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against it, surely not an unexpected one. Succession in the historical caliphates was often a haphazard and violent affair, and almost certainly will be in this […]
Islamic State’s caliph al-Baghdadi orders Muslims to “obey” him
His call has thus far met largely with scoffing outside of his own domains, and perhaps quietly inside them as well. It will only gain traction if he is able to make his state a viable one — a possibility that analysts and Muslim leaders are dismissing today, saying that a state born in terrorism […]
Muslim leaders denounce Islamic State’s caliphate as un-Islamic
“What ISIL is doing is in complete contradiction of the principles of the Islamic caliphate: a righteous caliphate which preserves the rights of all people, and respects all people and the opinions of others who are of different faiths, race, time and place,” said Sheikh Khaldoun Oraymet, secretary-general of Lebanon’s Supreme Islamic Council. Those rights […]
Former Board chairman of Hamas-linked CAIR: new caliphate “silly”
As is typical of mainstream media reports, this report doesn’t mention that Parvez Ahmed is the former national Board chairman of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In any case, it would be refreshing if Beth Reese Cravey had asked Ahmed to explain his statement that the Islamic State’s caliphate is “a silly utopian […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: The Caliphate Restored
In FrontPage today I discuss why the Islamic State’s declaration of a restored caliphate is significant: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has declared itself a caliphate, renamed The Islamic State, and named its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph, and demanded that all Muslims worldwide pledge allegiance to him. Al-Baghdadi has […]
Islamic State caliph calls on Muslims worldwide to move to his new caliphate and wage jihad against Infidels
Here is his full statement. Note yet again the many, many quotes from the Qur’an and the grounding of his whole appeal in Islamic teaching. Will any Western Muslim spokesman explain how he is getting Islam all wrong? None need do so, of course, because the mainstream media will just assume it has been done […]
“With this declaration of khilāfah, it is incumbent upon all Muslims to pledge allegiance to the khalīfah Ibrāhīm and support him”
Will Muslim spokesmen in the West who have derided warnings about the Islamic supremacist aspiration to reestablish the caliphate now explain on Islamic grounds why Muslims worldwide do not need to pledge allegiance to the new caliph? Will they explain why this declaration, which is full of Qur’an citations, is a misunderstanding of Islam? Or […]