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ARAB WORLD MAPS – La lente agonie du Califat | The Maghreb and Orient Courier

▻http://lecourrierdumaghrebetdelorient.info/focus/arab-world-map-la-lente-agonie-du-califat

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Il y a 3 ans, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi déclarait depuis Mossoul la restauration du Califat. A ce moment, une nouvelle ère semblait s’ouvrir en Syrie et en Irak : les soldats de l’armée irakienne, démoralisés et désorganisés s’étaient enfuis de Mossoul abandonnant Hummers et armes lourdes, l’EI était aux portes de Baghdad, contrôlant plus d’un tiers du territoire irakien. En Syrie, le chaos qui y régnait leur avait permis de s’installer durablement sur près de la moitié du territoire et d’établir leur capitale à Rakka, une ville de 200 000 habitants sur l’Euphrate. Plus symbolique encore, l’EI avait effacé l’ancienne frontière Sykes-Picot, issue de la période des mandats français et anglais. Le Califat semblait s’installer pour de nombreuses années.

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Isis : a portrait of the menace that is sweeping my homeland – Hassan Hassan
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/16/isis-salafi-menace-jihadist-homeland-syria

But its critics have responded. Mohammed Habash, a cleric from Syria, places blame for the rise of Isis on mosque imams, saying: “We did not speak about the caliphate as a political system that is fallible. No, we spoke about it as a sacred symbol of unity … Isis did not arrive from Mars; it is a natural product of our retrograde discourse.” A Saudi commentator, Ibrahim al-Shaalan, tweeted that Isis is “but an epitome of what we’ve studied in our school curriculum. If the curriculum is sound, then Isis is right, and if it is wrong, then who bears responsibility?”

Plus intéressant à mon avis, son article pour le National la semaine dernière (il reprend plusieurs citations dans les deux articles) : Now a caliphate has been declared, the debate begins
▻http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/now-a-caliphate-has-been-declared-the-debate-begins#full

Examples of weak responses by Islamists include an argument put forward by the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB) for the rejection of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi’s claim to acaliphate as “void”.

The SMB said his caliphate was illegitimate because he had never shown his face in public – one of the main conditions for a legitimate imam in Islam is that he is known. The embarrassing argument was refuted after the video of Mr Al Baghdadi’s Friday sermon in one of Mosul’s largest and oldest mosques was released.

A similar petty argument had been made by the Syrian Salafi cleric Adnan Al Arour, who said that he would pledge allegiance to Al Baghdadi had the latter shown his face in a video. These statements indicate how, in terms of ideology, Islamists and jihadists share more in common than either wishes to admit. One Jordanian Islamist told me through Twitter: “Islamic movements, even though they call for a caliphate and dream of it, believe it should be restored by them [and not by other Islamists].”

This Jordanian Islamist wrote on Twitter: “Frankly, ISIL is the product of certain religious legacies shunned by Islamists due to either ignorance, shame, fanaticism, blind loyalty or opportunism.”

Noter que l’article insiste sur le fait que les Frères syriens refusaient ISIS au motif qu’il est interdit de prêter allégeance à quelqu’un qu’on ne connaît pas, et non pour des raisons plus fondamentales. Mais maintenant que Baghdadi est apparu en vidéo… (cette nécessité religieuse de Baghdadi d’apparaître en vidéo pour que les gens puissent lui prêter allégeance a été rappelée par Nashrallah dans son interview au Akhbar)

ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi Trained by Israeli Mossad, NSA Documents Reveal ~ Iraq TradeLink News Agency
▻http://www.iraqtradelinknews.com/2014/07/sis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-trained.html

The former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Intercept site reported.

Snowden said intelligence services of three countries created a terrorist organization that is able to attract all extremists of the world to one place, using a strategy called “the hornet’s nest".