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The Taliban criticise Daesh and say they're not islamic


http://jihadology.net/2015/06/29/gu...phate-is-not-islamic-but-is-anyone-listening/
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This is the problem. No Muslim anywhere has a clue about what Islam is supposed to be - it's an utter confusion of dissent and bickering.

Anyone deemed not Muslim enough can be branded "apostates" and it's fair game to kill them, according to scripture.

The whole thing is a clusterfuck. So much time on energy is being wasted on this idiotic self-defeating drivel.
 
Aaron Zelin has a paper out examining IS media strategy.

http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/445/876
Introduction
Ever since the Islamic State (IS) took over a third of Iraq and declared a caliphate in the summer of 2014,
the world has been fascinated with the IS media operation. Many have looked to the group’s propaganda
for answers to the question why it has not only gained substantial local support, but also attracted scores
of foreign fighters. Yet the literature still lacks an exhaustive study of the full media output of the self-
styled state. This is not only due to the language barrier (the vast majority of official media releases are in
Arabic), but also to a singular fascination by the media and some researchers with IS’ most grotesque acts
or messaging targeted toward a Western audience. As a result, the breadth of IS’s messaging strategy is
insufficiently understood.
This article aims to start filling this lacuna by examining the totality of IS media productions during a sample
week; from April 18 to April 24, 2015. Considering IS’s full propaganda output – as opposed to a selection
of the most spectacular productions – reveals a very different picture from that conveyed in mainstream
Western media. We will see that IS attempts to use media as a force multiplierto make it appear it is active in
many locations even though the vast majority of its activities are in Iraq and Syria. Even among those two,
there is a difference, with far more military operations taking place in Iraq than in Syria. IS’s media apparatus
is decentralized through its provincial-level media offices, and 88% of its releases are visual. All of IS’s media
is released in Arabic, and only a small proportion is translated into other languages. In the media releases
themselves, IS portrays itself as winners, competent, and pious, while it portrays its enemies as unjust and
unbelievers.
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Theres another paper on same site arguing that

Beliefs about the long-run economic prospects of Daesh, often known as the Islamic State or ISIL, inform international decisions over how to counteract the group. We analyze Daesh as an economic entity, demonstrating first that the amount of productive activity in areas it controls is small and second that its institutions are inimical to sustained growth. Unless one believes that the group’s ideology will enable it to manage an extractive autocratic economy with historically unprecedented efficiency, then its long-run prospects are poor. This observation has a number of policy implications at both operational and strategic levels.
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http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/450
 
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http://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/jtr/article/view/828/707
WOMEN, GENDER AND THE EVOLVING TACTICS OF BOKO HARAM
This article addresses an under-researched aspect of Boko Haram’s activities: gender-based violence (GBV) and its targeting of women. It argues that 2013 marked a significant evolution in Boko Haram’s tactics, with a series of kidnappings, in which one of the main features was the instrumental use of women. This was in response to corresponding tactics by the Nigerian security forces. Additionally the analysis provides evidence of a shift by Boko Haram to include women in its operations, in response to increased pressure on male operatives. It also considers the gendered rationale for instrumentalizing women within the framework of Boko Haram’s ideology and culture, arguing for a greater appreciation of how gender factors in the group’s violence.
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This paper is well worth a read, but quite grim. Boko haram really are cunts.
 
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https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivi...ms_pro_free_syrian_army_activist_page_claims/

The comments on this page :(


Not true. I have family members there and last we heard from them is that many are trying to escape the village. Many Christians have been imprisoned already and the town is unreachable at the moment.

We tried to call the police station and I shit you not an ISIS member answered the phone claiming that the town is now under ISIS control.
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Tens of thousands of Christians living there.
 
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/...amic-states-burgeoning-capital-in-sirte-libya

How ISIS has expanded in Libya and taken advantage of existing jihadi networks to do so.

ISL's operations in Sirte have grown more sophisticated since June, surpassing even its original efforts in Darnah -- a situation abetted by its current lack of competition. Prior to June, the vast majority of its activities were limited to dawaand hisba: distributing literature, conducting forums, converting Christians, implementing tazir and hudoud(punishments for crimes against God that are based on the Quran and hadith, such as flogging, stoning, amputation, and execution), and demolishing shrines, among other activities described above.

After ISL's Darnah defeat and Sirte expansion, many members went west to help consolidate the group's control and governance efforts there. Although it still engages in dawa and hisba, ISL is now in the state-building stage -- it aims to show residents that life is continuing and that its presence has brought normalcy and stability. Similar efforts were seen last fall in Iraq and Syria, where ISIS members ostentatiously placed the group's black flag on lamp posts, erecteddawa billboards throughout towns, conducted tours of different industries, highlighted the group's public works projects, and publicized photos showing the beauty and peacefulness of life in the so-called "Caliphate." Likewise, ISL members in Sirte have shown off the city's landscapes, port, bustling markets, and fully stocked grocery stores. They have also decorated the entrance to the city with ISL flags, installed numerous dawa billboards, cleaned and decorated streets, provided zakat to the needy, visited Ibn Sina hospital, and toured local brick, aluminum, marble, and milk factories.

In another parallel to Iraq and Syria, ISL members have called on individuals to join the group's ranks via video messages issued under the aegis of "Wilayat Tarabulus," the so-called ISIS "province" encompassing northwestern Libya. In late January, Abu Umar al-Tawrigi called on his fellow Tuaregs to join the group and pledge baya to Baghdadi. In late April, Abu Muhammad al-Ansari stated, "Come to Libya. Our hearts and homes are open to you." In early June, Abu Dujana al-Sudani urged potential recruits to make hijra (emigrate) to ISL. And last month, Abu Hamza al-Masri reiterated these entreaties, asking legal scholars in particular to come help the group implement sharia.
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Sisi's regime is a gift to the Islamic State

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/06/sisi-is-the-best-gift-the-islamic-state-ever-got/

Please read these two pieces, especially the Sisi one - they are really good
 
Just read the FP article. I think a fair few of us here could honestly say 'I told you so'

And so we have what was in high probability a CIA-backed and therefore State Department sanctioned coup adding fuel to the flames. You could not make it up. :facepalm::(
 
There's some testimony given to the White House on how US company Cloudflare is profiting from security given to Daesh web forums:

http://t.co/iOWkkvWKYM

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Daesh are now apparently asking people to guess how they killed him :(

Fucking bastards.

Theres no confirmation of it in the media, hopefully thats good news :(
 
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http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-ff-indonesia-isis-20150808-story.html#page=1

Rahmat and Afrian talk about Islamic State, their eyes widen, their speech slows, and their expressions soften into smiles.

The two friends, both 33, say they plan to join the Islamist militant group in Syria, 4,500 miles away from their middle-class homes in Medan, Indonesia's fourth-largest city, as soon as they can save enough money to fund the trip.

"The Islamic State is like a dream come true for me and all Muslim people," said Rahmat, a perfume trader wearing a Quicksilver T-shirt and a G-Shock watch, who, like many Indonesians, goes by one name. "Now is the time to return to Islamic glory, like we experienced in the old days."
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"One verse in the holy Koran says we have to deter our enemy," Afrian said. "The Islamic State is a state. It has territory, government, citizens, and laws. If you don't want to get in trouble with the Islamic State, don't go there."
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:facepalm: :facepalm:

Meanwhile:

http://news.yahoo.com/activists-hundreds-syrian-christians-flee-islamic-state-135206997.html

:(
 
Deeply worrying report from indonesia - daesh openly recruiting and authorities unable/unwilling to do anything


http://www.smh.com.au/world/allard-is-contagion-growing-in-indon--seo-20150804-gir4vk.html
It's not the only time IS recruiters have attended the mosque. Radical cleric and IS devotee Syamsuddin Uba has been a regular visitor, leading marches of jihadists carrying the IS flag through Jakarta. He would have been preaching there this week, if not for his arrest last week in eastern Indonesia.

The administrator of the mosque, Farihin, tells Fairfax Media he does not support IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

Even so, he admits a pro-IS banner was hung outside the mosque until authorities forced them to take it down about a month ago, and that IS supporters are allowed to lead religious classes there.
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http://focusnews.com/opinion/isis-a-terrorist-movement-transforming-into-resistance/94480/

The ISIS has been harnessing this resentment against the coalition successfully in keeping its hold on a vast territory and over 10 million people. But now it’s trying to pitch itself as an Islamic resistance movement fighting the western powers and their allies on their behalf. It has been attracting youth in thousands from all around the world to join the Jehad against the decadent west. Apart from replacing Palestine and al Qaeda as sole representatives of the Islamic resistance, it’s also trying to occupy the ideological space left open by the decline of all alternatives to the free market capitalism.
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perhaps if we hadn't been such ardent supporters of 'pak' suharto in his war to murder anyone who was even just a trade unionist then allow his country to be opened up for hyper exploitative child labour, let the supervisor fuck you or starve special economic zones, the people wearing the trinkets of capitalism might not be so inclined to hold some credence to the slick vice-video propaganda of IS.

I don't excuse actions of individuals but in indonesia, we helped to discredit the very idea of democracy and so no wonder people turn to the old ways, as they see them. Expressed by IS. I suspect them lads would not think much of life under the caliphate but its an alternative offered and indonesia is the largest muslim populated state in the world (I don't mean we as in us, we as in the western and US powers).
 
DotCommunist yup

These are the middle classes (the mosque is by the US embassy in an exclusive neighbourhood) i suspect some (not all) have led lives of unimaginable privilege compared to most people in the west let alone indonesia, and a well developed sense of entitlement, i suspect it could be that, that combined with the factors you describe, and the fear of losing their status thats led to them going to join daesh
 
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