The Islamic state

[LDC]

As a fucked up and very lonely teenager i adopted some very extreme viewpoints and was talking online to people i should never have been talking to. i'm just glad that isis wasn't there back then tbh elbows LynnDoyleCooper

Yeah, likewise frogwoman. I don't think it's such a massive stretch to see how it has some appeal to super-alienated and angry teenagers at all. I'm with you, I'm really glad it wasn't around then. Likewise the internet too, I managed enough trouble without that.

 

[Crispy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34022583

Ex Iraqi army colonel and high-ranking ISIS official killed by US airstrike on Tuesday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Muslim_al-Turkmani

Looks like they've got one fewer capable commanders now.

 

[not-bono-ever]

THis one slipped out today mostly unnoticed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34019158

"A schoolgirl was "radicalised" when her family exposed her to propaganda by the Islamic State group and must be removed from their home, the High Court says.

The 16-year-old's "deceitful" parents showed her images of beheadings, and material on bomb-making and how jihadists could hide their identity.

The family's passports have been passed to the Metropolitan Police.

The judge compared the damage done to the girl from east London to that experienced in sex abuse cases.

He said she was one of a number of cases involving young girls from the same area "captured and seduced" by the belief that becoming "jihadi brides [in Syria] is a somewhat radical and honourable path for them and their families".

'Sophisticated dishonesty'
The court heard how the schoolgirl - who can only be referred to as B - was removed from a flight to Turkey last December and made a ward of court.

Her parents promised to stop her and her siblings accessing online terror-related propaganda but the judge said a police search of the family home last June revealed "a plethora of electronic devices".

The girl asked to remain in the family home, even if that meant being tagged.

However, the judge said of B: "I can see no way in which her psychological, emotional and intellectual integrity can be protected by her remaining in this household.

"The farrago of sophisticated dishonesty of the parents makes this entirely unsustainable."

How fuckin sad is it when a family urge their child to fuck off to a shithole warzone for marriage to a likely rapist*
The more I read about the active involvement( or lack of involvement in some cases) by families in this whole awful scenario is twisted and bizzarre

* A bit Daily Mail , but you get the gist

 

[rekil]

A heavily armed gunman opened fire on a high-speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, injuring two people before being overpowered by two American soldiers who were on board.

The shooting happened just before 6pm in the last carriage of the TGV train which was carrying a total of 554 passengers. The man had several weapons in his luggage, including a Kalashnikov, an automatic pistol, and razor blades.

Motive unconfirmed but dunno where else to put it. This could've been very bad.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/21/amsterdam-paris-train-gunman-france

 

[J Ed]

Motive unconfirmed but dunno where else to put it. This could've been very bad.?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/21/amsterdam-paris-train-gunman-france

Thank goodness the marines were there, what are the odds for that?

 

[not-bono-ever]

boxcutter used. now theres an interesting reference point

 

[Crispy]

He was at one end of the train and had a bag full of ammunition. I guess the plan was to murder his way up the train. A very lucky escape.

 

[phildwyer]

Thank goodness the marines were there, what are the odds for that?

Pretty good, given the USA's hyper-active imperialism. Certainly the world's airports are full of American soldiers at the moment. They're often invited to board first.

 

[Greebo]

<snip> at least the Turkish people are willing to accept millions of refugees without complaint. To hear the Brits whinge on about a few thousand of their victims inconveniencing their holiday plans by blocking the Chunnel is frankly disgusting.

Stay away from Facebook and the rightwing media then. Granted, there's a lot of anti refugee rubbish being spread, it doesn't mean that the majority of people here agrees with it.

 

[Greebo]

<snip>The apathy of British people in the face of the atrocities their government has committed in the Middle East will forever damn them as ignorant hypocrites in the annals of history.

Apathy? For somebody so well educated and well travelled, you haven't even got 3/4 of a clue to rub together. I wonder how actively you'd take to the streets in the UK, with the current lack of media coverage and heavy handed policing of protest. That, by the way, is assuming that you even had the time and energy to do so; not something to take for granted when zero hours contracts have become so common.

 

[teqniq]

Stay away from Facebook and the rightwing media then. Granted, there's a lot of anti refugee rubbish being spread, it doesn't mean that the majority of people here agrees with it.

My FB feed has a lot of links to initiatives/projects showing up that are being set up by ordinary people here to provide assistance to the refugees. Doubtless there are a lot of unsavoury things being said by bigots and racists, I've just not seen them

 

[phildwyer]

Apathy? For somebody so well educated and well travelled, you haven't even got 3/4 of a clue to rub together. I wonder how actively you'd take to the streets in the UK, with the current lack of media coverage and heavy handed policing of protest. That, by the way, is assuming that you even had the time and energy to do so; not something to take for granted when zero hours contracts have become so common.

Of course one should never generalize. All I can say is that the Brits I speak to seem remarkably disconnected from what's being done in their name--to a far greater extent than my American acquaintances, who often actually support their government's policies but at least know what they are.

 

[Greebo]

My FB feed has a lot of links to initiatives/projects showing up that are being set up by ordinary people here to provide assistance to the refugees. Doubtless there are a lot of unsavoury things being said by bigots and racists, I've just not seen them

I've see the things like Calaid too, but there's also been a very recent increase in anti migrant (not even admitting that they're refugees) jokes etc.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

This twitter account is so wrong it's right

https://twitter.com/isis_karaoke

 

[Casually Red]

This twitter account is so wrong it's right

https://twitter.com/isis_karaoke

That's brilliant

 

[frogwoman]

http://abcnews.go.com/International...strengthens-ties-islamic-state-group-33246567


Isis strengthens ties with boko haram with arrests in lebanon and news that nigerians are fighting in libya

 

[agricola]

http://abcnews.go.com/International...strengthens-ties-islamic-state-group-33246567


Isis strengthens ties with boko haram with arrests in lebanon and news that nigerians are fighting in libya

Perhaps this shouldn't be that much of a surprise, for a variety of reasons they (Boko Haram) have not done as well since Buhari got in.

 

[Idris2002]

This twitter account is so wrong it's right

https://twitter.com/isis_karaoke

 

[LDC]

http://kurdishquestion.com/index.ph...0-europeans-fighting-in-the-ranks-of-ypg.html

 

[frogwoman]

Apparently Jihadi John (if it's really him) has been filmed in Syria saying he wants to go back to Britain and cut off more people's heads? There were suggestions that he had fled ISIS and was fighting with Ahrar al Sham or someone which i always assumed was total bullshit. Or that he was in Egypt. I just assumed he's dead which as this footage was supposedly taken two months ago may well be the case.

 

[Idris2002]

Apparently Jihadi John (if it's really him) has been filmed in Syria saying he wants to go back to Britain and cut off more people's heads? There were suggestions that he had fled ISIS and was fighting with Ahrar al Sham or someone which i always assumed was total bullshit. Or that he was in Egypt. I just assumed he's dead which as this footage was supposedly taken two months ago may well be the case.

I just assumed he was a cunt.

 

[frogwoman]

I just assumed he was a cunt.

Well yeah me too. I just kind of assumed (and hoped) he was dead that's all.

 

[DotCommunist]

shallow grave in libya if theres any justice

 

[agricola]

shallow grave in libya if theres any justice

Or being the victim of what appears to be some form of 8-bit bombing raid, as the Daily Mail suggests happened to some of his colleagues recently:

 

[DotCommunist]

I think I had that on the atari 2600

 

[frogwoman]

A new article on "Wilayat West Africa" aka Boko Haram
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/wilayat-west-africa-reboots-for-the-caliphate

This article will discuss how Wilayat West Africa militants responded to the military offensive and analyze the extent to which the militants were able to withstand the offensive tactically, strategically, and in terms of morale. The article also examines Wilayat West Africa’s attacks in Chad after the military offensive, which for the first time showed signs of cooperation from the Islamic State’s ”core” leadership. Finally, the article assesses reports of Wilayat West Africa militants mixing with other Islamic State wilayat in Libya and whether an operational or command-and-control relationship exists.

Each section of the article also highlights the role of “post-Ansaru”[9] networks (militants formerly in the faction Ansaru, who reintegrated with Boko Haram and played the lead role in managing Boko Haram’s courtship process) in enabling Boko Haram’s evolution into Wilayat West Africa today.

The article challenges the notion that Shekau’s baya`a “changed nothing” and suggests that while the Islamic State’s impact on Wilayat West Africa is thus far most easily seen in media and propaganda (and, of course, Boko Haram’s new name), an operational relationship already exists.[10] Moreover, there have been suggestions from a source with a record of inside knowledge that in the Islamic State hierarchy Shekau now reports to a new overall emir of Wilayat West Africa, who is a Libyan and former Mali-based militant in Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s al-Mourabitoun.[11] Nonetheless, the Islamic State still recognizes Shekau as the titular head, or wali, of Wilayat West Africa.[12]

 

[frogwoman]

As Islamic State claims of Wilayat West Africa operations in Chad were released in July 2015, there were also reports in north and west Africa that Wilayat West Africa militants were mixing with Islamic State militants in Libya. By August 2015 a trend started to become apparent from information gleaned via reports from diverse sources and countries.[37] This would be a major development: growing interactions and greater trust between Wilayat West Africa and Islamic State wilayat in Libya beyond their mutual loyalty to al-Baghdadi would further integrate the new Wilayat West Africa into the broader Islamic State system.

There were, for example, several Islamic State supporters in Barqa, who wrote on twitter that “Shekau’s followers” traveled to Darna (a city near Barqa in eastern Libya) to support the Islamic State in its battles with rival factions and pro-al-Qa`ida militants.[38] These reports were consistent with other reports from Libya that 80 to 200 Wilayat West Africa militants were in the Islamic State’s “third capital” of Sirte (after al-Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq). Nigerian media also reported that the country’s military intelligence believes Shekau fled to North Africa and that Wilayat West Africa now reports to Syria or Iraq in the Islamic State hierarchy.[39] Algerian security forces also believe Wilayat West Africa is active in northern Niger, which borders Libya, together with 200 militants from MUJAO (MUJAO’S leader pledged baya`a to al-Baghdadi in July 2015 against Belmokhtar’s wishes, thus leading to the break-up of al-Mourabitoun).[40] The openness of migration routes from Nigeria through eastern Niger to Libya makes travel between the two wilayat fairly straightforward, and the Islamic State can easily afford to pay smugglers to carry militants (and weapons) along that route.

The movement of Wilayat West Africa militants to Libya has the potential to transform the “Islamic State landscape” in northwest Africa in at least three ways.

 

[frogwoman]

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...-attack-kills-23-soldiers-Sunni-fighters.html

ISIS attack kills 23 iraqi soldiers

Bollocks

 

[frogwoman]

The Archivist: 26 Unseen Islamic State Administrative Documents: Overview, Translation & Analysis


From the fantastic 'jihadology' website

This post presents 26 further documents not previously in the public domain, obtained from a businessman from a town in northeast Aleppo province that is currently a stronghold of IS. For reasons that are self-evident, this person’s exact location and identity cannot be revealed, but it may be added that this person does business across IS territory, including regular trips to Mosul and Anbar. Though not necessarily a hardline, ideological supporter of IS, he nonetheless finds the security environment amenable to doing business: a common advantage perceived by Syrians who make investments and conduct transactions in IS territory.

Says something about the social base of soft daesh support. I read a thing about ISIS supporters in indonesia disrupting 'immoral' films and protests too which lends credibility to the idea that its a similar social base and function to fascism albeit with some important differences.

 

[frogwoman]

All lecturers and teachers under the rule of the Islamic State must adhere to the following:

– Cancel all prior programs issued by the apostasy governments.
– Cancel work in the name of the regime and interim ministries and replace them with Diwan al-Ta’aleem
– The subjects of Islamic Shari’a, principles of tawheed, and the Arabic language are the main subjects in the Islamic State’s programs.
– The sciences: all theories of shirk [idolatry] that speak about the beginnings of man and the Sun are to be done away with. The laws of nature are from God’s will.
– Focus on al-wala’ and al-bara’ [loyalty and disavowal] in all subjects and belonging to the Islamic State
– Putting the maps of the Islamic State in the history and geography programs.

Bloody hell poor kids