http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2674736/ISIS-militants-declare-formation-caliphate-Syria-Iraq-demand-Muslims-world-swear-allegiance.html
Posted on 06/30/2014 10:00:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Caliphate ("succession" in Arabic) is an institution first created in the 7th century after the death of the prophet Muhammad. Now revived by the jihadists of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), this old-new political-religious entity has been given its own hashtag, #CaliphateRestored – a potent weapon in a digital propaganda war.
Isis has shown itself to be a slick media operator in addition to its battlefield successes in Syria and Iraq. Other memorable hashtags –#SykesPicotOver and #BringbackmyHumvees – have encapsulated its achievements in erasing "artificial" colonial borders and humiliating both the US and Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's Shia prime minister. Shocking YouTube videos and other images have advertised its intolerance and cruelty.
Sunday's rebranding exercise – presumably timed for maximum impact at the start of the holy month of Ramadan – certainly sounded authoritative: "We clarify to the Muslims that with this declaration of khilafah (caliphate), it is incumbent upon all Muslims to pledge allegiance to the Khalifah Ibrahim and support him (may Allah preserve him)," Isis commanded sternly.
Previous caliphates ruled over large parts of the Muslim world until the last one, the Ottoman caliphate, was abolished in 1924. In modern times Hizb ut-Tahrir has campaigned unsuccessfully for its restoration. So has al-Qaida. The campaign conjures up an idealised past rather than a feasible project in a world of nation states with more power than the Muslim ummah (community)....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Yes, this ‘ISIS’ entity went from unknown to chief boogeyman seemingly overnight.
The problem is....and this must become the conversation is that ISIS believes themselves as not the builders of another Caliphate...
Oh no they believe this is the Final Caliphate that ushers in their Mahdi.
That is their belief and must not be taken lightly.
Good luck to the Muslims on getting all of them to pledge allegiance to
Khalifah
Let us know how that works out for ya all
I would recommend the Wikipedia entry and associated linked topic before the very unobjective Guardian article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate
After 9/11 I began t look at al Qaeda and associated Muslim groups and saw how they want to bring back a caliphate.
The 9/11 date was possibly chosen because it was an anniversary of a post-WWI declaration concerning the middle East by Britain.
Similarly ISIS are talking about Picot-Sykes.
There is a widely held idea that the nation states that exist now were foisted artificially on them by the west/Christians.
The liberal and left media have downplayed the idea of the Caliphate as a goal since 9/11. This Guardian article falls in to that same category.
Uh no it wont be that difficult to obtain....they alreay have quite a few Sunni imans and tribal leaders on board through the ME
It gets even better:
ISIS: We will ruin the Kaaba after capturing Saudi Arabia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3174075/posts
“Caliphate— the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph.”
The Mahdi is here now. It’s the POTUS.
Cali-——a State in the United States
phate——what happens when you give illegals sanctuary
/ti be followed by: #CrusadesRestored
Let ‘em kill each other. That’ll keep their primative religion busy for a while.
I really don’t give a smelly Obama about that area of the world. Should they attack us again as in 9/11, we should then respond in a manner that they will most surely not enjoy.
They won’t stop there.
I would say that at the very least he’s rev’s second beast.....and ISIS the first.
Revelation 13:12 to 14
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon. 12He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.…
He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men. 14And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life.…
I read the entire article and I gotta say, that the author and I suppose the Brit liberal establishment strikes me as being extremely smug and arrogant and dismissive about the chances for this to succeed, especially considering the huge number of hostiles they’ve imported into their own country. This could well blow up in their faces and frankly, that wouldn’t hurt my feelings any considering the ridiculous disregard their crappy government has exhibited toward the interests of their native population, i.e., BRITISH ANGLO-SAXON!
IOW an absolute totalitarian dictator totally on steroids. Henry VIII, Joe Stalin, and Mao, with Hitler coming in a close second, are the modern examples. In every case it’s an absolute, horrific evil made even worse in Islam because it’s grafted onto a “religion” concocted by Mohamed to justify his own total dictatorship.
yes, they have a pretty good foothold already in Britain, France, Benelux, and Scandinavia
also in central Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, RP and obviously Indonesia which is huge
BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner explains the meaning of a caliphate and the impact of ISIS.
Unfortunately, no mention of the diabolically brutal shariah enforcements such a Caliph bears upon it's conquered societies.
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