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Al-Baghdadi Urges Muslims to Move to 'Caliphate' in Audio Recording
2015-05-15
[AnNahar] The leader of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
on Thursday urged Moslems to emigrate to his self-proclaimed "caliphate", in the jihadist supremo's first audio recording in six months.

"And we call upon every Moslem in every place to perform hijrah (emigration) to the Islamic State or fight in his land wherever that may be," he said.

The voice reading the half-hour speech appeared to match previous audio recordings of Baghdadi, the latest of which was released in mid-November.

As did his previous speech, the audio tape recording released on Thursday comes a few days after media reports that he might have been seriously maimed in a strike by the U.S.-led coalition bombing IS in Iraq and Syria.

There was no way for AFP to immediately authenticate the latest recording nor date it but Baghdadi speaks of developments in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
that suggest it is recent.

Echoing his previous exhortations, Baghdadi said moving to the caliphate he declared over parts of Iraq and Syria in June 2014 or waging jihad (holy war) at home was an obligation.

"There is no excuse for any Moslem who is capable of performing hijrah to the Islamic State, or capable of carrying a weapon where he is," he said in the speech, transcripts of which were released in five languages.

"Has the time not come for you to know that there is no might nor honor nor safety nor rights for you except in the shade of the Caliphate?," he said, addressing Moslems.

He criticized Sunni civilians fleeing fighting in western province of Anbar to seek shelter in Baghdad and other government-controlled areas.

"So return to your lands, and remain in your homes, and seek shelter -- after first seeking shelter with Allah -- with your people in the Islamic State, for you will find therein, by Allah's permission, a warm embrace and a safe refuge," he said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  Well, they do claim to have Coco-Pops.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2015-05-15 12:19  

#6  The Muslim Larry Flynt speaks!
Posted by: Frank G   2015-05-15 10:07  

#5  Just kidding, anon1.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-15 05:06  

#4  LOL no give them some sort of namby pamby class they'll just make fun of. A lady i know presides over citizenship ceremonies where they're all given a nice native plant to take home with them.

They mainly get thrown in the bin just outside the door. Sometimes just on the street.
Posted by: anon1   2015-05-15 04:52  

#3  Australian government has just approved half a billion dollars to "educate" new immigrants with Australian values.

You mean put them in penal colonies in the interior?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-15 04:47  

#2  agreed grom. i heartily endorse they can all go live in the same place away from the rest of us.

Australian government has just approved half a billion dollars to "educate" new immigrants with Australian values. If they need that education then just don't let them in! save that money for infrastructure.
Posted by: anon1   2015-05-15 04:44  

#1  I heartily endorse this call.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-15 00:11  

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