ISIS, now known as IS,
has now released Volume 3 of their glossy recruitment/propaganda magazine,
Dabiq. As I posted here, Dabiq is produced by the ISIS-affliliate and media wing,
Al-hayat Media Centre known for producing such videos as this one that shows the story of a Canadian from Timmins, Ontario, Abu Muslim, who converted to Islam and joined the battle for the revival of the Caliphate:
Dabiq is released in several languages including
English so that it can reach a world wide audience.
Dabiq Volume 3 has a
cover that calls its warriors (and potential recruits) to Hijrah, a reference to the migration of
the Prophet Muhammed from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE which marks the beginning
of the Islamic era as you can see on this screen capture:
Volume 3 opens with a
missive about the involvement of the United States in the affairs of the Muslim
Ummah (nation or community) as you can see on this page:
The Foreward notes that
there were countless accounts of American soldiers, both U.S. military forces
and Blackwater contractors, that were responsible for executing families and raping
women in Iraq prior to its withdrawal. The author notes that "...if
a mujahid kills a single man with a knife, it is the barbaric killing of
the "innocent". However, if Americans killed thousands of
Muslim families all over the world by pressing missile fire buttons, it is
merely "collateral damage"...
The author also states
that the Islamic State made demands of the United States for the exchange of
Muslim prisoners held by the U.S. in exchange for James Foley's release but
they were ignored.
This volume has an
interesting look at the IS policy of execution as you can see on these two
pages:
The author, quoting Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, former Jordanian leader of the al-Tawhid wal-Jihan who was
killed by U.S. forces in June 2006, states that
"...So we warn the
tribes, that any tribe or party or assembly whose involvement and collaboration
with the crusaders and their apostate agents are confirmed, then by He who sent
Muhammad with the truth, we will target them just as we tar- get the crusaders,
and we will eradicate and distinguish them, for there are only two camps: the
camp of truth and its followers, and the camp of falsehood and its factions. So
choose to be from one of the two camps...From now on, everyone whose
affiliation with the pagan guards, police, and army is confirmed, or his
collaboration and espionage for the crusaders is verified, then his ruling is
execution, and not only that, his house also will be destroyed and burnt, after
removal of the women and children. This is in retribution for his treachery
towards his religion and ummah, and so that he becomes a manifest lesson and a
deterring example."
This is what IS is using
to justify its execution of "traitors" who resisted the
imposition of their brand of Sharia law by ambushing, torturing (including
amputation) and killing Islamic State soldiers. When the villages
involved would not turn over the "traitors" after 24 hours, the IS
soldiers entered the villages where they found "...the men hateful of the
Shari'ah, drowning in fahishah (unlawful sexual intercourse or
fornication), alcoholism and drugs, some of them married to more than four
wives!".
Here is the IS version of
the occurrences in Northern Iraq in the Province of Nineveh (Ninawa)
where hundreds of thousands of Yezidis (IS refers to them as devil worshipping
Yazidiyyah because the Yezidi religion is based on worship of the
Peacock Angel which Muslims believe is Satan) were forced
to flee and where it appears that at least some executions of men and boys may
have taken place:
Lastly, here is the IS
version of their conquest of Tabaqah Military Air Base in Syria:
Once again, we can see
how the Islamic State is using very western means of recruitment to
entice new followers into their fold. People like Abu Muslim/Andre Poulin from Canada who gave his life for the cause. With this kind of propaganda, they
are joining the western world in promoting their military victories among their
believers and potential recruits.
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"This is what IS is using to justify its execution of "traitors" who resisted the imposition of their brand of Sharia law by ambushing, torturing (including amputation) and killing Islamic State soldiers." Not to get to philosophical or theocratic but the way Sharia law works is that its laid out pretty clearly so there is not a “their” version it is what it is. Its just that most muslims don’t follow it to T they might agree to follow some or most but forget about the annoying parts. What IS and the Taliban do is actually enforce following sharia to the T. So yes there is grey areas that get ironed out locally by the Islamic courts but most the stuff that seems radical and makes no sense to westerns is part of sharia law and is what it is
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