Al Qaeda denounces ISIS find them horrifying and tells them Jihad is not a video game
Jihad is not a video game; it is real life, with real consequences.Al Qaeda tells ISIS that there will be darkness for its perpetrator
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The atrocities committed by the terror group ISIS are so horrific that a high-profile al Qaeda member, an American citizen, purportedly addressed the group directly in a new al Qaeda publication and lectured them that if they keep it up, Allah will not grant them paradise in the afterlife.
“My dear brothers: While no one can deny the considerable strength and prowess of the Islamic State group [ISIS] in military terms, at the same time, the crimes it has committed against Muslims cannot simply be overlooked or forgotten with time, because in Islam there is no statute of limitations,” the late Adam Gadahn said, according to an al Qaeda magazine published recently online.
“And if these wrongs are not brought to an end and rectified here in this world, then a severe punishment has been promised both for those who committed them as well as those who encouraged, condoned or justified them, even if from behind a computer or mobile phone thousands of miles away.”
“Oppression of any kind is wrong, and [there] will be darkness for its perpetrator on the Day of Judgment. The Ummah’s [Muslim community’s] Jihad is not a video game; it is real life, with real consequences, in this world and the next,” he said.
Gadahn, born Adam Pearlman, was killed accidentally in an American counter-terrorism operation in January, according to the White House. Apparently the U.S. forces who conducted the mission didn’t know Gadahn was at the target location. Another al Qaeda member said in the magazine that it was an airstrike that killed Gadahn.
The interview with Gadahn, in which he discusses his background as a California boy in an unorthodox home and his bizarre journey into the ranks of al Qaeda, appears to have been conducted last fall.
A majority of the 80-plus page interview is dedicated to sharp criticism of ISIS, the terror group that split from al Qaeda in recent years and one that Gadahn says “is already known to be responsible for the murder and killing of a large number of Muslims on the flimsiest of pretexts.”
“Does anyone think [Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda figures] were calling on them to bring the wrath of the entire world down on Iraq and Syria by attacking and displacing largely powerless and defenseless minorities and slaughtering their men and enslaving their women and children?… Of course not!” he said.
“Frankly, all of us used to be sympathetic to varying degrees towards the Islamic State of Iraq [ISIS] despite its mistakes when it was seen as a weak and oppressed force valiantly fighting brutal tyrannies. But now that it has become clear that it has unfortunately adopted some of the traits, methods and tactics of those same tyrannies, it no longer holds the same place in our hearts that it did once upon a time.”
Early last week ISIS released its most gruesome video yet one showing the execution of a dozen fighters, some purportedly members of al Qaeda’s Syria faction. Different groups of the men are drowned, blown up by a rocket-propelled grenade or decapitated with explosives. Friday an ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility for the bombing of a mosque in Kuwait, which killed 27 Muslim worshippers.
In addition to the mass killing of Muslims, Gadahn also took issue with ISIS’s on-camera murder of Alan Henning, a British humanitarian. Henning was one of a string of Western hostages, including three Americans, to be executed by ISIS. Gadahn claimed that al Qaeda went as far as demanding ISIS release Henning because he was an aid worker.
“…[T]he brothers in An-Nusra [al Qaeda’s faction in Syria] sought the release of Henning soon after his kidnapping, but regrettably, their appeals – like the rest – fell on deaf ears,” Gadahn said. “Alan Henning didn’t go to Syria as a soldier or a spy. He went to Syria as a member of a Muslim aid convoy to distribute relief supplies to displaced and needy Syrians. But rather than thank him, some interlopers rewarded him first by kidnapping him and then by slaughtering him on camera.”
But Gadahn’s sympathetic words are out of place compared to other parts of the interview, where the American celebrated the attacks on Canadian soldiers and the Canadian Parliament, and later described his jubilant reaction to the 9/11 attacks in which his organization killed 3,000 innocent Americans.
“It was a mix of surprise, amazement and exhilaration as well as some apprehension, at least in the beginning,” he said. Gadahn said he was in Kandahar, Afghanistan when it happened and that night “there was a celebratory atmosphere People were congratulating each other on this incredible and historic victory with which Allah had favored us.”
And like ISIS, Gadahn also called for attacks in Western countries.“We in al Qaeda have been consistent in calling for attacks on America and its Crusader allies,” he said.
You know you are in trouble when the Biggest terrorist group calls another terrorist goup horrifying
I think we killed him on purpose really
“Does anyone think [Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda figures] were calling on them to bring the wrath of the entire world down on Iraq and Syria by attacking and displacing largely powerless and defenseless minorities and slaughtering their men and enslaving their women and children?… Of course not!”…..
Preach you Freakin Terrorist Preach, I never thought I would find myself agreeing with a terrorist but today I do.
I hate Al Qaeda but the guys are telling the truth..What ISIS is doing doesnt have any meaning at all,they are just babarians who enjoy killing other people because they cant cope with the challenges of real life.
Al Qaeda should start fighting ISIS…Just imagine the States,UK and Frace fighting hand in hand with Al Qaeda against ISIS!!
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Insane though it sounds, in certain circumstances that might be a smart move. For instance:
At the moment ISIS and Jabat al Nusrah are fighting each other in some parts of Syria in an increasingly bitter and seemingly irreconcilable struggle for dominance.
The best scenario for the west is for the two sides to be relatively evenly matched, so that the conflict continues to soak up their resources and weaken both of them. If ISIS looks like winning (the most likely outcome atm) finding ways to tilt the balance back the other way is a much better game plan than letting ISIS win and absorb what’s left of JaN.
I understand we kind of went in and blew everything up, but with Russia becoming more and more of a threat, why doesn’t someone else police the middle-east while we handle that issue? You could argue that we have more money invested in our armed forces, but considering a vast majority of the U.S. is “war fatigued” everything we do is only going to me more and more rushed. Someone with a clear mind should come in and take the reigns for a bit, considering that everyone has been receiving attacks from these groups.
Who?
No one else is going to do it. If the US pulls out of the region, it falls to pieces. And the kind of people who move into the vacuum will regard themselves as at war with you regardless of whether you see yourselves at war with them.
Daesh is being helped in their recruitment by the American bombings. With all of their fighters we have killed their numbers are being refilled by new recruits. An American military presence in the region is bad because the vast majority of the population think of the US as an enemy which is justifiable considering the democratic regimes we have removed and the Dictators we have supported. When the American military gets involved it makes the conflict worse because now the militants can say “We are fighting the American invaders” and most people support that. There are forces in the region that are taking the fight to Daesh and Jabhat al-Nusra and having some success such as Iran(mostly special forces in Iraq and Syria), the SAA, and Hezbollah but we consider them enemies so the American media doesn’t talk about them. The Kurds are doing decently but aren’t going to move outside of their own areas since their main goal is to secure a Kurdish state, which is why Turkey is allowing Daesh to smuggle weapons and ammunition and captured contraband for sale across the border so that they can fight the Kurds.
The only way we can have a positive impact is through diplomacy. Turkey, apply pressure on Turkey to properly police their border(which is unlikely since we need Turkey’s control of access to the Black Sea which is considered to be more important to our interests than Syria). We can also stop giving the KSA a pass on it’s cancerous Wahhabi brand of extremist Islam which it spreads throughout the world infecting young muslim minds.
Well, all the stuff you say isn’t keeping out of the region, which is what you originally argued for. Especially confronting Saudi on its state religion.
At this point, there are no good options, just bad and worse. The only groups having any success against ISIS are doing so because of US air power. Take it away and the Kurds get overrun immediately, more territory falls to ISIS throughout Iraq, and the Iranians/Shia stop at new de fact borders protecting the Shia heartland.
It would be great if there was some simple way to make this all go away, or at least not involve us. But there really isn’t at this point.
When I wrote about the US staying out of the region I meant the US military. Sorry if I wasn’t clear :). As for the part about US air power, yes the Kurds would be in big trouble if the USAF stopped bombing but in Syria the US is making a point of not doing any air strikes that help Assad or Hezbollah. A good example of this was leading up to Daesh’s assault on Palmyra there were reports of Daesh marching to Palmyra in the night. The Syrian Air force isn’t able to strike them at night but the Americans could have but didn’t because Assad’s forces are the only ones who would have been helped. Hezbollah has taken a good 2/3 of Qualmoon from Jabhat al-Nusra and is pushing into ISIS territory all of this without help from the US. From my point of view the US has been in the region for a long time and it has only gotten worse throughout that time. Groups that we had previously armed turned against us and violence has erupted in the wake of the destabilization of Iraq. Any positive change will have to come from within, not from an external force.
“Early last week ISIS released its most gruesome video yet one showing the execution of a dozen fighters, some purportedly members of al Qaeda’s Syria faction. Different groups of the men are drowned, blown up by a rocket-propelled grenade or decapitated with explosives.Friday an ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility for the bombing of a mosque in Kuwait, which killed 27 Muslim worshippers.”