Brilliantly, sadly observed
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Nov 29 19:04:13 CST 2015
The group is known in Arabic as ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq
wa-sh-Shām, leading to the acronym Da'ish or Daesh(داعش, Arabic
pronunciation: [ˈdaːʕiʃ]),[36][37] the Arabic equivalent of "ISIL". On
29 June 2014, the group proclaimed itself to be an Islamic state and
worldwide caliphate, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being named its caliph,
and renamed itself ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah (الدولة الإسلامية, "Islamic
State" (IS). As a caliphate, it claims religious, political and
military authority over all Muslims worldwide, and that "the legality
of all emirates, groups, states, and organisations, becomes null by
the expansion of the khilāfah's [caliphate's] authority and arrival of
its troops to their areas".[28][38][39][40] The United Nations has
held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and war crimes, and
Amnesty International has reported ethnic cleansing by the group on a
"historic scale". The group has been designated a terrorist
organisation by the United Nations, the European Union and member
states, the United States, India, Indonesia, Israel, Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Syria, Iran and other countries. Over 60 countries are
directly or indirectly waging war against ISIL.
The group originated as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which
pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2004. The group participated in the
Iraqi insurgency that followed the March 2003 invasion of Iraq by
Western forces. In January 2006, it joined other Sunni insurgent
groups to form the Mujahideen Shura Council, which proclaimed the
formation of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in October 2006. After
the Syrian Civil War began in March 2011, the ISI, under the
leadership of al-Baghdadi, sent delegates into Syria in August 2011.
These fighters named themselves Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahli
ash-Shām—al-Nusra Front—and established a large presence in
Sunni-majority areas of Syria, within the governorates of Ar-Raqqah,
Idlib, Deir ez-Zor, and Aleppo. In April 2013, al-Baghdadi announced
the merger of the ISI with al-Nusra Front and that the name of the
reunited group was now the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL). However, Abu Mohammad al-Julani and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the
leaders of al-Nusra and al-Qaeda respectively, rejected the merger.
After an eight-month power struggle, al-Qaeda cut all ties with ISIL
on 3 February 2014, citing its failure to consult and "notorious
intransigence".
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 7:33 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> ISIS did not exist pre-Iraq invasion. Don't conflate instances of jihadism.
> Wahhabism was directly responsible for 9-11, and we still fund its principle
> sponsor, Saudi Arabia, the devil we know which still fucking loves the devil
> we hate.
>
> We (US) must REALLY fear the fall of the Saudi House.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sunday, November 29, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I suggest, on drilling down, that ISIS, which already existed, would still
>> exist. How big had we not invaded Iraq I have little clue. I suggest there
>> was NO WAY to " manage" Iraq post-saddam and keep ISIS from growing.
>>
>> I think mainstream doesn't get this.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2015, at 5:12 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mainstream says ISIS was the result of US idiotic mismanagement of
>> post-Sadham Iraq. "Midwife" seems apt.
>>
>> What is your thesis, Ish?
>>
>>
>> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-origins-of-isis-finding-the-birthplace-of-jihad/
>>
>>
>> http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1780-we-built-their-death-squads-isiss-bizarre-origin-story.html
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