ISIS and True Islam

ISIS broadcasts to the world why it kills.

Joseph Klein  74

ISIS is taking umbrage at critics who challenge its claim to represent true Islam. In the latest issue of its magazine Dabiq, published on July 31, the author of an editorial entitled “Why We Hate You and Why We Fight You” repudiated “the Islam-is-a-peaceful-religion crowd.” That crowd would include President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis and other world leaders, politicians and opinion makers who have pushed the narrative that ISIS is a deviant cult made up of violent extremists whose acts of terrorism have nothing to do with Islam. To the contrary, claimed the author of the Dabiq piece, “jihad and the laws of the Shari’ah   – as well as everything else deemed taboo by the Islam-is-a-peaceful-religion crowd – are in fact completely Islamic.”

In another article by an unnamed American convert living in ISIS territory, from which the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) quoted, the author addressed other converts living in the United States as to the true meaning of Islam:

"Now that you have found the truth of your Lord and abandoned the misguided paths of Satan, beware of the widespread disease of riddah (apostasy). Would you so quickly be ungrateful of Allah's guidance by retreating to deviance, even if under the mere guise of Islam?... Remember that Allah did not order you to adhere to any group except that of the single Muslim nation, and... forbade you to divide by making and join­ing other groups... [and] That one nation is the group following the Quran and the Sunnah, with allegiance to one leader, the Caliph of the Muslims...

 

"Do you not see the many so-called 'imams' and 'scholars' calling to alliances against Islam with the disbelievers, to maintaining the Muslim nation's separation by imaginary borders, and to rejecting the re­establishment of the Caliphate, which many of the earlier scholars called 'the most important of obliga­tions?!' Are these imams not 'of our skin and our language,' yet call to what would inevitably lead to our doom? Indeed, they are callers to the gates of Hell, so beware and do not be fooled by them. So reject these calls to disunity and come together. Live the life of Islam, for which you have already left the path of falsehood, and do not die the death of Jahiliyyah [the pre-Islamic period], a time in which there was no united Muslim nation having pledged allegiance to a single imam and thus having no obedience to a rightful authority."

 

The ISIS author called upon the converts he was addressing to either “make hijra to Islamic State territory” or at least pledge allegiance to “the Caliph” Al-Baghdadi and “attack the disbelievers back home.” He urged those planning an attack in the West against the “Crusader nations and their citizens in their homelands” to “cause the most damage and panic, bringing death and injury to the enemy of Allah, the disbelievers.”

The author proceeded to quote from the Koran to support his case: "And make no mistake, for 'verily the disbelievers are a clear enemy to you' [Koran 4:101]......To Read More....