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ISIS Declares Sovereign Islamic State
by John M. Curtis
(310) 204-8700
Copyright
June 29, 2014
All Rights Reserved.
Fighting for a new Islamic caliphate in land
seized in Iraq and Syria, the terror organization formed by the late barbarian
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed today a new sovereign state. Run by al-Zarqawi’s successor 42-year-old Abu Bakr al-Badhdadi, the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant signaled to the radical Islamic world that a new caliphate has
begun, fulfilling the promise written in Osama bin Laden’s 1996 Fatwa or
Ladenese Epistle or “Declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land
of the two holy places.” What differs from Bin Laden’s Epistle is the scope of the Fatwa or Islamic legal opinion
declaring what al-Zarqawi included in the Levant or entire Middle East. ISIS spokesman Abu Mohammed
al-Adnani anointed al-Baghdadi the new caliph or leader of a new radical Islamic
state that now occupies cities, towns and territory in parts of Iraq and Syria.
Threatening Damascus and Baghdad, al-Baghdadi has become a magnet for
Islamic radicals no longer satisfied with slow-moving Islamic groups unable to
make headway in the Middle East toward a sovereign Islamic state. Declaring a sovereign Islamic state
is good PR for Islamic extremists all over the globe hoping to join
al-Baghdadi’s universal call for jihad.
Al-Adnani called on all civilians living in the new Levant to declare
their undying loyalty to al-Baghdadi or prepare to die by mass executions. Already torturing, beheading and
crucifying heretics or infidels, al-Baghdadi shows the same ruthlessness as
al-Zarqawi who once beheaded U.S. civilian Nicholas “Nick” Berg May 7, 2004 on
YouTube. Al-Zarqawi’s public
beheading of Berg took Mideast barbarism to new heights, sending the same
message as al-Baghdadi today:
Radical Islam aims at taking over the Middle East—and beyond.
Al-Baghdadi delights watching U.S.-Russian relations sink to a new post-
Cold War low. With all the
squabbles over Ukraine, Syria and Iraq, al-Baghdadi’s master-plan—like Bin
Laden—is to pit the world’s superpowers against each other while he quietly
seizes more territory. With time
running out on Iraq and Syria, the U.S. and Russia must get on the same page to
redouble efforts to fight today’s modern scourge of Islamic extremism. U.N. officials have been virtually
silent watching the ISIS group seize more land, turn back the clock on economic
progress and, more importantly, institutionalize the abuse of women. Under radical Islam’s perverse
interpretation of Sharia law, women become slaves and indentured servants,
stripped of all human rights guaranteed by “The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,” embodied in the United Nations Charter Dec. 10, 1948
When the U.S. toppled the Taliban regime in Kabul Nov. 15, 2001, it drove
the world’s most ruthless and brutal Islamic regime from power. Public stonings, mutilations and executions were commonplace under the Taliban’s version
of Sharia law, mild in comparison to ISIS’s new brand of Islamic extremism. U.N. officials, led by
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon need to forcefully denounce ISIS as an anathema to
the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
ISIS declares all foreign powers or current regimes in the Middle East
illegal because they violate the sovereignty of Islamic lands. “The legality of all emirates,
groups, states and organizations become null by the expansion of the caliph’s
authority and the arrival of troops of their areas,” said al-Adnani, telling the
world that any territory seized by ISIS becomes sovereign land ruled by
al-Baghdadi.
Now is the time for Secretary of State John Kerry to contact his Russian
counterpart Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to hold an immediate summit on a real
plan to rid ISIS from Syria and Iraq.
Seizing more territory only emboldens ISIS to continue its recruiting
juggernaut, picking up more stray dogs, misanthropes and misfits unable to make
it in today’s Islamic world to serve in al-Baghdadi’s criminal gang waving the
banner of Islam. Western officials
saw Bin Laden spew the Islamic propaganda until he met his maker May 1, 2011. U.S. Special Forces got ISIS’s
founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi June 7, 2006 when a U.S. Air Force F-160 dropped a
500-pound smart bomb on his Baqubah safe-house.
Privately funded by Saudi millionaires, ISIS has more capital, resources
and organization than any other Islamic terror group, including what’s left of
al-Qaeda’s al-Nusra Front.
Obama and Putin need to urgently caucus on what to do about ISIS in Iraq
in Syria. Giving al-Maliki Russian-made
Sukhoi-25 fighter jets won’t have much impact on ISIS unless Baghdad can
coordinate with the U.S. and Russian military.
Obama and Kerry must stop fantasizing about a united Iraq when the Kurds
have already divorced themselves from an incompetent Baghdad government. Whatever happens to the sectarian
war between Sunnis and Shiites, it’s high time for the U.S. and Russians to
recognize Kurdish sovereignty in Iraq’s northern territories. Kurdish sovereignty is now backed by
Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, recognizing that a sovereign
Kurdistan helps buffer Turkey from Islamic extremism. Washington and Moscow need to put
differences aside on Ukraine and come together to evict ISIS from Mosul and stop
them from toppling Damascus and Baghdad.
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