Anjem Choudary, London’s most notorious defender of the Islamic State, says crucifixion and beheading are sacred requirements.

Članak stvarno vrijedi pročitati: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

The Islamic State has attached great importance to the Syrian city of Dabiq, near Aleppo. It named its propaganda magazine after the town, and celebrated madly when (at great cost) it conquered Dabiq’s strategically unimportant plains. It is here, the Prophet reportedly said, that the armies of Rome will set up their camp. The armies of Islam will meet them, and Dabiq will be Rome’s Waterloo or its Antietam.

“Dabiq is basically all farmland,” one Islamic State supporter recently tweeted. “You could imagine large battles taking place there.” The Islamic State’s propagandists drool with anticipation of this event, and constantly imply that it will come soon. The state’s magazine quotes Zarqawi as saying, “The spark has been lit here in Iraq, and its heat will continue to intensify … until it burns the crusader armies in Dabiq.” A recent propaganda video shows clips from Hollywood war movies set in medieval times—perhaps because many of the prophecies specify that the armies will be on horseback or carrying ancient weapons.

Now that it has taken Dabiq, the Islamic State awaits the arrival of an enemy army there, whose defeat will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse. Western media frequently miss references to Dabiq in the Islamic State’s videos, and focus instead on lurid scenes of beheading. “Here we are, burying the first American crusader in Dabiq, eagerly waiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive,” said a masked executioner in a November video, showing the severed head of Peter (Abdul Rahman) Kassig, the aid worker who’d been held captive for more than a year. During fighting in Iraq in December, after mujahideen (perhaps inaccurately) reported having seen American soldiers in battle, Islamic State Twitter accounts erupted in spasms of pleasure, like overenthusiastic hosts or hostesses upon the arrival of the first guests at a party.

The Prophetic narration that foretells the Dabiq battle refers to the enemy as Rome. Who “Rome” is, now that the pope has no army, remains a matter of debate. But Cerantonio makes a case that Rome meant the Eastern Roman empire, which had its capital in what is now Istanbul. We should think of Rome as the Republic of Turkey—the same republic that ended the last self-identified caliphate, 90 years ago. Other Islamic State sources suggest that Rome might mean any infidel army, and the Americans will do nicely.

After its battle in Dabiq, Cerantonio said, the caliphate will expand and sack Istanbul. Some believe it will then cover the entire Earth, but Cerantonio suggested its tide may never reach beyond the Bosporus. An anti-Messiah, known in Muslim apocalyptic literature as Dajjal, will come from the Khorasan region of eastern Iran and kill a vast number of the caliphate’s fighters, until just 5,000 remain, cornered in Jerusalem. Just as Dajjal prepares to finish them off, Jesus—the second-most-revered prophet in Islam—will return to Earth, spear Dajjal, and lead the Muslims to victory.

“Only God knows” whether the Islamic State’s armies are the ones foretold, Cerantonio said. But he is hopeful. “The Prophet said that one sign of the imminent arrival of the End of Days is that people will for a long while stop talking about the End of Days,” he said. “If you go to the mosques now, you’ll find the preachers are silent about this subject.” On this theory, even setbacks dealt to the Islamic State mean nothing, since God has preordained the near-destruction of his people anyway. The Islamic State has its best and worst days ahead of it.

Ja već vidim Žižeka, Srećka Horvata i Mimu Simić sa redenikom metaka ko Rambo kako iskorijenjuju ISIL.

Rising Dem star committed ‘mortal sin’ by ripping Obama on Islamic State

Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a twice-deployed Army veteran, is taking heat from liberals in the media for criticizing President Obama’s strategy to defeat Islamic State militants and the administration’s refusal to identify radical Islam as the enemy.

“Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don’t know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him,” Ms. Gabbard said, Fox News reported Saturday. “Our leaders must clearly identify the enemy as Islamist extremists, understand the ideology that is motivating them and attracting new recruits, and focus on defeating that enemy both militarily and ideologically.”

Ms. Gabbard, who is a member of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees, told Fox that the administration’s fear of associating radical terrorist groups with the Islamic faith were “unfounded.”

“I think recognizing and being very accurate and very specific and understanding this must be a core part of our strategy, to defeat those who seek to do harm to the American people is exactly how we must be looking at this issue and remain very focused on it,” Ms. Gabbard said, Fox reported.

But political experts in her home state have criticized the rising Democratic star for challenging a president from her own party, and worry she has jeopardized her prospects for re-election in one of the bluest states.

“While Gabbard is correct in her ‘emperor has no clothes’ moment, she may have lost her future seat on Hawaii’s political bench,” said Michael W. Perry, of Hawaii’s “Perry & Price” KSSK radio show.

Mr. Perry said Ms. Gabbard had committed a “mortal sin” by challenging the president and “now the knives are coming out,” Fox reported.

Bob Jones, a columnist for the Oahu-based Midweek, wrote that Ms. Gabbard’s comments were out of line.

“I take serious issue when somebody who’s done a little non-fighting in Iraq, and is not a Middle East or Islamic scholar, claims to know better than our President and Secretary of State how to fathom the motivations of terrorists, or how to refer to them beyond the term that best describes them — terrorists,” Mr. Jones said.

But others in the military community have stepped forward to defend Ms. Gabbard, saying her remarks are courageous and correct.

“[Gabbard] has taken a very courageous stand in a party that just refuses to face reality,” said Retired U.S. army Lt. Gen. Michal Flynn, who directed the Defense Intelligence Agency, Fox reported.

Former intelligence officer and noted specialist on Islamic law, Stephen Coughlin told Fox, “Rep. Gabbard is correct as a matter of history, she is correct as a matter of current events, and she is correct of published Islamic law.”

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Ben Yussuf: The Prophet has commanded us to rule the world. Where in all your land of Spain is the glory of Allah? When men speak of you they speak of poets, musicmakers, doctors, scientists. Where are your warriors? You dare to call youselves sons of the Prophet? You have become women! Burn your books! Make warriors of your poets! Let you doctors invent new poisons for our arrows. Let you scientists invent new war machines! And then, kill! Burn! Infidels live on your frontiers. Encourage them to kill each other. And when they are weak and torn, I will sweep up from Africa, and the empire of the One God, the true God, Allah, will spread, first across Spain, then across Europe, then the whole world!

And then, kill! Burn!

Allah is merciful...

Znači službeno razlike između islama prije tisuću godina i islama danas u obličju Islamske države nema.

ŠOK U FRANCUSKOJ Učenici prepoznali kolegu, dječaka koji ubija taoca



Dijete koje je prikazano kako ubija zatvorenika na video-snimci što ju je u utorak emitirala Islamska država (IS), prepoznali su kolege iz razreda u Toulouseu, na jugozapadu Francuske, izjavio je dužnosnik nacionalnog obrazovanja.

Učenici “su prepoznali jednog od svojih kolega ali treba biti oprezan”, kazao je na konferenciji za novinare inspektor Jacques Caillaut, prenose agencije.

Nije potvrdio informacije iz izvora bliskih tom predmetu prema kojima je dijete od dvanaestak godina, snimljeno kako ubija pištoljem izraelskog Arapa, predstavljen kao špijun, zaista bratić Sabrija Esida, rođaka Muhameda Meraha, ubojice iz Toulousea.

Merah je posijao užas u Francuskoj usmrtivši između 11. i 19. ožujka 2012. tri vojnika, troje djece i nastavnika u židovskoj školi.

Video-snimku su u srijedu vidjela djeca te je “već od četvrtka osigurana psihološka pomoć” za učenike jer su “djeca šokirana”, kazao je Caillaut.

Obitelj Sabrija Esida (31) osumnjičena je da je napustila četvrtak Mirail u Toulouseu i otišla u Siriju u proljeće 2014.

Sydney Boys High students are stopped at airport on way to join Islamic State

When he was just 13, he was so conscious of the perils of being a teenager that he helped set up a website offering support to disaffected teens.

Four years later, authorities believe the high-achieving Sydney Boys High student had himself grown increasingly disaffected.

The 17-year-old, who Fairfax Media has chosen not to name, and his brother, 16, were stopped at Sydney Airport on March 6, believed to be on their way to the Middle East, via Kuala Lumpur, to join Islamic State.

In a concerning development for counter-terrorism authorities, it appears the pair were the antithesis of the typical teenager being lured to Syria and Iraq by the Islamic State.

They did not appear to be marginalised, lonely, unhappy or bored.

Fairfax Media can reveal that authorities are looking into the three months the older brother spent in Germany over the summer holidays, examining whether he came into contact with any extremists who may have prompted his sudden and rapid radicalisation.

He was one of two students to win a scholarship to live with a German family for 10 weeks, departing in November 2014.

Less than a fortnight after he returned home, he was allegedly intercepted at Sydney Airport with a return ticket to Turkey.

The star Year 11 pupil at the prestigious GPS school was a regular academic prize winner, a member of the debate team, a state-level football player and recently voted in as vice president of the Student Representative Council by his peers.

Among the topics covered at inter-school debates one year was whether the West "should undertake surgical air strikes against Assad's regime in Syria".

In 2011, he urged his friends to get behind an internal school website providing help for "getting through adolescence".

"This site is extremely beneficial to the problems that young adolescents could be having out there. Let's try harder to make the site better," he posted.

Just weeks ago, he won a prize for his outstanding score in an Australian Mathematics Trust competition.

His younger brother was also an avid sportsman, excelling at basketball, long jump and football.

"If they were switched on to questions of global injustice and seeking answers, not just angry young men or alienated young men but passionate idealists, then they can just as easily be targets of the predatory recruitment by Islamic State," said terrorism expert Greg Barton, from Monash University's Global Terrorism Research Centre.

"It is deliberate, targeted, predatory recruitment."

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the boys' parents, who live in south-west Sydney, had no idea of the boys' attempt to travel to "a potentially very dangerous situation".

The younger boy, a Year 10 student, wore a yellow 'Australia' t-shirt to the airport and the pair had allegedly deleted electronic files with tips on how to convince Customs officials they were tourists.

"As a result of this interception, a Sydney family remains together," Mr Dutton said on March 8.

The Australian Federal Police released the boys into the care of their parents without being charged. A spokesman said an investigation is ongoing.

The younger child had watched a video recently by Sheikh Feiz Mohammed, a reclusive, firebrand who has been blamed for radicalising Sydney men including wanted terrorist Mohamed Elomar.

The eldest brother had recently attended some seminars by a University of New South Wales Islamic group.

Sydney Boys High principal, Dr Kim Jaggar, would not comment on the case.

A spokesman for the Department of Education said they assist investigative agencies in such matters and always place the highest priority on student wellbeing and welfare.

Kako uopće možeš vjerovati da je neki lik prije 1.000 i nešto godina imao nekakvu objavu, direktan dodir s nekakvim "Bogom". Zar ti nije lakše zamisliti da bi takav lik danas (Isus ili Muhamed) završio u ludnici, pa po istim aršinima suditi i njihova sabrana djela?