 [Rantburg, Yahoo News] Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, aka Abu Dua, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the newly-declared Caliph of the Islamic State and Galactic Overlord, has claimed dominion over Moslems world-wide and called upon them to support his bloody stump of a "state."The 19-minute audiotape came two days after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant unilaterally declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the land it controls. It also demanded that all Moslems around the world pledge allegiance to him. The implication of the caliphate and al-Baghdadi's demand is that he displaces al-Qaeda supreme turban Ayman al-Zawahiri and Afghanistan's former Islamic overlord Mullah Omar as the dispenser of all things Islamic. He said the Islamic state is a land for all Moslems regardless of nationality, telling them it "will return your dignity, might, rights, and leadership." "It is a state where the Arab and non-Arab, the white man and black man, the easterner and westerner are all brothers," sez he. "Moslems, rush to your state. Yes, it is your state. Rush, because Syria is not for the Syrians, and Iraq is not for the Iraqis. The earth is Allah's." His Enormity will rule as Caliph Ibrahim. Donations can be made to the Widows and Orphans Ammunition Fund. |