Pin this one on colonialism and the West, if you can. The online magazine of ISIS, Dabiq (I didn’t know there was such a thing!) has published an article calling for the murder of 21 Western Muslim leaders (click on the gruesome screenshot below and go to page 8, “Kill the Imams of Kufr in the West”:
I don’t really want to read it (and I’d hate to be one of those 21, who are now in effect living under a fatwa), but the Daily Caller has a summary, which includes this:
Dabiq describes the genesis of apostasy in the West as a function of liberalism and democracy infecting the hearts and minds of Muslims who immigrated to “mushrik-majority” countries.
“As a result of their negligence towards their obligations and their exposure to Western kufr, their identity was altered,” the article states. “Their children learned the values and beliefs of their new homelands. The kufr of liberalism and democracy was instilled and a new breed of “scholars” was born, becoming a major part of the West’s very own imāms of kufr.”
The worst offender, according to ISIS, is American Muslim Hamza Yusuf, who is apparently guilty of “filling heads with opinions based on half-truths and false interpretations and using semantic oratory more akin to sorcery through wordy “eloquence” than actual traditional education.”
The second, also from the U.S., is Suhaib Webb, who “has spent his career making a name for and a fool of himself as the all-American imām. Adopting a Southern inner-city accent sprinkled with thug life vocabulary and the latest pop culture references when addressing young crowds, he is quick to switch to an ordinary voice when speaking to CNN and other media outlets. A clown in most senses of the word, he has surprisingly gathered a following and is seen by many crusader supporters as an important tool for taming Muslim youth in the West.”
So seriously, do people think the terrorists have won when we ban headscarves in the West? That’s apparently not their own conception of “winning.”
Yes, Dabiq is the Islamic State’s online propaganda magazine, named after the small northern Syrian town in which Armageddon will soon be fought between the Muslim forces and the “Romans.” The victorious army (actually, one third of it) will then proceed to supernaturally defeat Constantinople. This is why the Islamic States’s Turkish language magazine is called Konstantiniyye, which translates as Constantinople!
I wonder how the current Italian government feels about that.
Hm, so ISIS’ magazine is available in English? Interesting …
Yes, and it is quite terrifying. You can find PDF copies online, such as at .
A few minutes reading this stuff and you’ll wonder how anyone but a fool or a liar would claim Islamic State isn’t “Islamic”.
Two issues ago there were two articles about how women should behave, and how children should be brought up. They were both horrifying. The last issue was mostly about martyrs to the cause but included an article about how the widows of fighters should act, and the rules for them as per the Qur’an.
The online magazine of Al-Qaeda, Inspire is similar.
They’re easy to find and quite professionally produced, and you’d be surprised by some of the stuff they write about. There used to be regular articles giving advice on preparing yourself for joining IS, what to take with you etc. They even advised people to join with a friend so they had someone to talk to, and not to worry about getting their laundry done as there were people who did that for you.
Inspire has articles on things like climate change too, which were mostly accurate, and every issue has extremely detailed instructions, that go on for several pages on how to build things like pipe bombs. E.g. ‘How to build a bomb from ingredients you can find in your Mom’s kitchen’ (iirc) was the title of one article. There were often two descriptions about the different way to build the same (e.g. car) bomb if you wanted to be a “martyr bomber.”
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I don’t think this should be filed under “Mormons Behaving Badly”
“Morons behaving badly”?
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Should be “Muslims behaving badly”. I’ve fixed it.
A particularly vicious way to “reach out and touch someone”. These people need to be belled
so we’ll know when they’re coming. Or prevented from leaving home at all.
The language they use to describe their enemies is truly odd — it sounds more like an amazon 1 star review than a death warrant. “A clown in most senses of the word” etc. Where’s the hatred or vitriol? How oddly disengaged from reality the writer must be, while also in a position to bend reality to their orders.
I’m personally acquainted with their chief nemesis, Hamza Yusuf. He gave a very literate talk on the wide range of religious responses to industrialism and capitalism in Berkeley about 5 years ago.
As wary (phobic?) as I am of Islam, he strikes me as one of the best things to come out of the religion in many years (Sam Harris awarded that accolade to Malala- I’m happy to share it with her).
You underline the grounds for the death warrant then.
The rantings and ravings of Dabiq could pass for parody were they not so appalling.
My opinion: if Kerry doesn’t interfere, Damascus will put an end to this foolishness in the near future. [Not that I like Assad, but Damascus seems preferable to ISIS.]
Accepting one very bad choice over another because it is a bit worse, seems like a losing strategy. After half the people of a country are either killed or have left the country we would now say, okay, maybe not so bad. Assad is just another kind of cancer on the people of Syria and he deserves his final breath of air as much as the leaders of ISIS. When it gets this bad, there really is no preference.
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I love that line about “liberalism and democracy infecting the hearts and minds of Muslims”. So democracy is an infection, huh? Would it be a bacterium or a virus?
It’s the guys who write this stuff who are sick.
It’s like the comment a Maduro supporter in Venezuela made about the “Chavistas”: “What they say YOU are, THEY are; what they say YOU are doing, is what THEY are doing.”
No, DON’T click on the ISIS site link. A writer friend of mine did some research on Islamic terrorists while writing his military adventure novel and wound up on the No Fly List.
Is he still there?
I suppose the only way to check is to try to get on an airplane, and he hasn’t had occasion to travel that way in recent years.
I seriously doubt you could call up the TSA and ask, “Am I still on your list?”
Can’t beat a bit of light reading, Christ !
Will there bloody insanity never end ?
Their not there, numptie.
I can only hope that the ISIS author is right about the West altering the identity of Muslims and infecting them with liberalism and democracy.
That’s why they call it, “Terrorism”, and this is how it works: ISIS knows that just to kill one “apostate” doesn’t silence just them; it produces the effect of silencing, through fear of a similar fate, many other potential “apostates”, thus strengthening the grip of their world view. Unfortunately, European countries have now been “infiltrated” by such large numbers of Muslims that it’s virtually guaranteed that there will be a few that will be motivated by this enough to take action on it.