Posted on 08/16/2014 7:55:21 AM PDT by darkwing104
The Islamic state, formerly known as ISIS, is a one-time affiliate of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. In an effort to spread their own flavor or Jihad around the globe, these Islamists are fashioning their own country and identifying rivals of their particular terror network. The success of their takeover of Northern Iraq has attracted foreign fighters to the Sunni controlled Caliphate. Many of the recruits from Western nations are trained and then returned to their home country to create terror cells loyal to the Islamic state.
Yet the rapid growth of an Islamic State may also be its Achilles heel. The Caliphate expansion makes Islamist organizations vulnerable to overreach. Stretching command and control of the terror network over large regions with little or no infrastructure can make such a state easy prey for a formidable, well trained military force.
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When A U.S. President IS Muslim Brotherhood, bad stuff happens in the Middle East and around the world
Now, we have an excellent insight into cui bono, or who benefits from all of the past lies and bs about what has happened and is happening in Arab lands.
This should be read by any us with questions about what has and is happening in the Arab lands.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/08/u-s-president-muslim-brotherhood/
“Yet the rapid growth of an Islamic State may also be its Achilles heel. The Caliphate expansion makes Islamist organizations vulnerable to overreach. Stretching command and control of the terror network over large regions with little or no infrastructure can make such a state easy prey for a formidable, well trained military force.”
That may be true but the videos put up on you tube by Vice News would indicate that IS has put a lot of thought and effort into their administration of Sharia, upkeep and repair of the infrastructure and take over and running of the industry.
As far as I can discover, I don't think there is a "Caliphate" yet. I think the Islamic "messiah" has to return, plus a unified muslim empire of all the faithful must exist, before a Caliph can be appointed, or elected, or however he is picked to assume command of the world's muslims. And by the way, it will be a "he".
The problem goes much deeper than the threat that ISIS poses to our nation.
If we are supposedly a ‘nation of immigrants’, why is it that government allows entry into the country of migrants whose teachings in their holy book orders them to kill those who do not agree with their way of life?
Does this not promote civil conflict and strife?
What is a non-muslim citizen to think of his muslim neighbor? Does he have to live in fear of his life and live in the expectation that his neighbor could, at any unexpected time, practice what the Koran tells him to do and turn ISIS?
The civilized world needs to immediately stop ALL commerce, foreign aid, and ALL BANK/FUND transactions with those that fund, or are suspected of funding these troglodytes. They have no ability to self-fund and they would dry up within a decade. Follow (and STOP) the money. Immediately. 100%.
No oil trade; no weapons trade, and legalize drugs to cut off access to that money. All invaders will be incarcerated PERMANENTLY. No leniency, no parole, no pardon. If deported they must be tattooed with a permanent prominent facial tattoo that will be shot on sight if they ever set foot on our territory again.
That situation will improve for them rapidly and drastically as the talent migrates to the winner and IS is showing itself as a Winner that is actually doing what AQ and the rest have been preaching. a concerted military effort bu the USA right now would shatter that in short order and convert IS into another of the many Islamist militias with little or no territorial base.
A caliphate does not require the Return or a Messiah. It is a system of government that had a fairly long history in the past. Those who desire the caliphate either simply believe that a caliphate is the only proper form of society and/or they believe that establishment of the Caliphate is part of the conditions necessary for the Return. Paradoxically it is the Shiites who are most invested in the concept of The Return or a Moslem Messiah. The Sunnis have their own version but it is not quite the overriding cause of everything as is with the Shia.
It is not just "allows," it is a preference and Moslems get refugee status because they are Moslems on the Liberal theory that Moslems are persecuted by Christians and Christians cannot get refugee status when running from beheading and crucifixion due to their religion because they are designated members of the Persecuting Class getting their just deserts.
The West, especially the USA will continue funding the Jihadists at an accelerating rate. Even without the Emir in Washington the whole Establishment in the USA is Leftist and fully invested in the proposition that poverty in the world is the result of oppression by white civilized people, a situation which must be corrected. The accession of a totally Tea Party House and Senate with Cruz as president won’t change that much. The bureaucracy is so huge and totally stafed with people of that mindset that Congress and the President, even the Courts are relegated to being an inexperienced helmsman on a Cape carrier.
Yes. At any moment a Muslim may "get religion" and start acting out what the Koran teaches.
And when the inevitable collapse comes there will be h*ll to pay. And Millions (not thousands) will suffer and die. And die horrible deaths. Every day that a problem is allowed to fester the ultimate consequences are magnified. Islam has been at war with us for over a thousand years, and now they have state-of-the-art weapons. And $$$.
I weep for our culture (at least what is left of it).
Which brings up the following legal question: If my pit-bull (I don’t own one) attacks someone, I shall be held responsible for any damage and/or suffering the victim endures, and rightfully so.
If a high school or college admits a muzzie and an infidel, and the former kills the latter on campus because of religious considerations, can the survivors sue the school for damages?
After all, the school should have known that by admitting a muzzie it admitted a potential member of ISIS and isn’t the school responsible for the safety of its students while on campus? Can campus police be sued for negligence for not properly protecting the infidel?
Wouldn’t a zoo be held responsible for any mishap if it allowed predators to roam freely among the visitors?
Just asking.
Much of which we have given them not to mention what they have captured.
Nice skating. My point is that currently there is no Caliphate anywhere, but the article called Iraq one. Is this correct or incorrect?
Moslems are conquerors and pirates almost by definition- it's in the Book- and an Islamic polity cannot produce sufficient wealth to buy or build the technology required to keep any really large entity together. They can keep growing so long as the West feeds the Beast which the West has been doing ever since the Sauds were allowed to nationalize Arabian oil and so long as America keeps sending money and arms directly to Moslems, any Moslems.
If the West collapses and Islam sweeps over the world then Islam will proceed to depopulate the world as the Left would love to see happen. Moslem societies produce only sufficient for bare subsistence of the masses and a little more that supports .5% or so in splendour becaues the Caliph or Sultan or Dey steals all the excess over bare subsistence, so the people have no incentive to produce. As droughts and storms and internecine raiding destroy production and crops, famine becomes a recurrent phenomenon and population declines. Technology regresses and the machines are destroyed in righteous religious fervor or just wear out. Cropland is converted to semiarid sheep ranges as happened to North Africa and Anatolia which were once the breadbaskets of Rome and Byzantium.
All of that is why the idealistic (insane) Left is in love with Islam. They don't wish to be Moslem but they feel, at least subconsciously, that Islam must prevail to depopulate and Save the Earth.
Yeah, I read that “Caliphate” article at Wiki, too.
I have never read anything on Wiki. I don’t trust it.
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