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ISIS rivals in Syria reject announced Caliphate
Long War Journal ^ | July 1, 2014 | By Thomas Joscelyn

Posted on 07/02/2014 10:41:58 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

Nine leading rebel groups in Syria have rejected the Islamic State's claim that it has established a Caliphate stretching across parts of Iraq and Syria.

In a statement released online, the nine groups say "the announcement by the rejectionists [the Islamic State] of a caliphate is null and void," both "legally and logically." The nine groups, all of which have long been opposed to the Islamic State, say that the announced Caliphate will not change how they deal with the organization.

The signatories warn other jihadist individuals and organizations not to support the Islamic State. They argue that the decision to announce a Caliphate is self-serving and an attempt to "abort the blessed revolutions in Syria and Iraq."

Two of the nine signatories are the Islamic Front, a powerful rebel coalition that includes the al Qaeda-linked Ahrar al Sham, and the Majlis Shura al Mujahideen (MSM) in Deir Izzor. The MSM is an alliance of groups, including the Al Nusrah Front, that is opposed to the Islamic State in eastern Syria. . .

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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: caliphate; iraq; isis; islamicstate; syria
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1 posted on 07/02/2014 10:41:58 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The end of the “caliphate” just as it begins..............Hmmmmmmmmm.


2 posted on 07/02/2014 10:43:20 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Maybe more and more of these freaks will kill more and more of these freaks.


3 posted on 07/02/2014 10:44:06 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

One side announces caliphate. Another side rejects caliphate.

Sounds like a dispute over which twenty or thirty generations of war could be built around.


4 posted on 07/02/2014 10:44:12 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The biggest problem these individuals and others have with this declared Caliphate is the are not the Caliph.


5 posted on 07/02/2014 10:46:49 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Maybe more and more of these freaks will kill more and more of these freaks.

We can only hope.

6 posted on 07/02/2014 10:46:54 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Put it on Pay-per-View.


7 posted on 07/02/2014 10:47:10 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They’s gonna be some feudin’ in them parts.


8 posted on 07/02/2014 10:49:13 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Time for all the Islamic terror factions to declare Jihad on each other.

Breakout the popcorn!


9 posted on 07/02/2014 10:55:12 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo, the Sunni Won-Doer, will not divert $'s from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Think the rabbits are running ... and zer0 plays like Alice.


10 posted on 07/02/2014 10:55:34 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Grampa Dave

Jihad-a-palooza.


11 posted on 07/02/2014 10:57:16 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

QUOTE: “The MSM is an alliance of groups, including the Al Nusrah Front, that is opposed to the Islamic State in eastern Syria.”

The main stream media is in an alliance that includes Al Nusrah Front? That explains a lot.


12 posted on 07/02/2014 10:58:45 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Logic and proportion ... zer0 is busy feeding his head with drugs!
13 posted on 07/02/2014 11:00:01 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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zer0 is saying find me reggie love!


14 posted on 07/02/2014 11:01:14 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Maybe more and more of these freaks will kill more and more of these freaks.

“We can only hope.”

There must be some way we can encourage this. Not under this admin, but generically.


15 posted on 07/02/2014 11:10:04 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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16 posted on 07/02/2014 11:11:34 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
There must be some way we can encourage this.

We'd have to be very subtle ... the only people they hate more than each other are us.

17 posted on 07/02/2014 11:14:27 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: trisham

yes, Trisham! These colors never run away! If you run away, it will be your own fault!


18 posted on 07/02/2014 11:17:56 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: ConservingFreedom

“the only people they hate more than each other are us.”

Do you think that’s really true? Serious question, I don’t know the answer.

We are infidels, but we never said we were Muslims.

Muslims who say they are Muslims but practice Islam in the polluted, corrupted sense whatever that may be depending upon the Sunni/Shia viewpoint and who has the AK-47 in hand, and in the same geographical area, would seem to be the greater, more offensive apostasy.


19 posted on 07/02/2014 11:19:20 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Steely Tom

And yet, they keep finding reasons NOT to support a caliphate.

Some group of Muslims denounces another group of Muslims as being “impure” and “apostate”, and therefore, it is absolutely necessary to behead the entire population of the “impure” ones.

Only, it is never conclusively determined who is “pure” or “impure”.

The greatest danger to any Muslim is another Muslim.


20 posted on 07/02/2014 11:24:16 AM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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