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| The two wings of the 'Caliphate' |
| 2015-08-25 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS' activity in Sirte and Sinai is illustrative of a strategy by ISIS to create two centers of power not only to destabilize Libya and Egypt but neighboring countries from West Africa to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . These two wings of the caliphate need to be recognized for what they are: A strategic and tactical pincher move to "pop" Egypt and spread ISIS' deviant ideology across North Africa. ISIS is also looking at the outer edge of the caliphate's appendages to form the space necessary to send more fighters from the Caliphates core in the Levant to Libya and Egypt. ISIS was displaced in Derna by Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen which is an al-Qaeda affiliate. But the defeat didn't matter because ISIS is pliable. ISIS is able to fill the gaps in Libya and choose Sirte as its next stronghold because of its strategic location. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 We have laws in the US that states and cities choose not to enforce so I'm doubtful an anti-sharia law would work. Personally the west should (a) protect the Kurds but allow everyone else in the region fight to the last man (b) push for fracking to ensure the oil economy doesn't tank during all that wary (c) convince Europe to recolonize the area under the auspicious of the UN. They can then start deporting people from Europe back to the middle east. Either that or drop a moab on Mecca but that might be a bit extreme. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-08-25 14:48 |
| #3 TOTALLY AGREE John QC. Got it in one. People might be Maoists or Leninists or Stalinists - but in 1950 those categories were all Communists and a grave threat to freedom. We legislated and booted them out. Now, you might be IS or Boko Haram or Milf or Al Qaeda or Saudi Arabia - but you are all promoters and practitioners of Sharia. Sharia needs to be outlawed. The Caliphate declared enemy and Sharia the ideology. Lock them up for treason. Secular Muslims are just fine so long as they renounce Sharia and reject it utterly, like Dr Taj Hargey. |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-08-25 11:00 |
| #2 Yesterday was the anniversary of Eisenhower's signing of the Communist Control Act in 1954--it outlawed communism in the U.S. (Not sure what happened to the enforcement of that law over the years. Probably, in as much need today for such a law as then.) A law is needed today; an anti-Sharia law with active enforcement. Sharia law would be outlawed in the U.S.--in other countries as well. Presently, we don't have the political will in the U.S. to spearhead such an effort. We are currently in the "denial stage" for this disease. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-08-25 07:39 |
| #1 the root festering cause is sharia. Islam needs to be remade across the middle east as a secular religion not a system of politics and law. Our rulers have fallen into the trap of helping regional "allies" who support sharia and export it, to fight IS. Wrong move. The correct move is to let all nations/groups that support Sharia suffer - they are just as much our enemy. Saudi is just as much an enemy as IS. Only provide support to groups that renounce sharia in favour of secular democracy. Even if that means IS gain control of all ground. Just ensure safe passage of refugees all of whom must renounce sharia. Once the lines are clear between those that support Sharia and those that do not, turn the Sharia territory into trinitite. Repatriate refugees. Game over. |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-08-25 04:58 |