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INDIA: Times of India Article on ISIS talks about Khilafat in Ahmadiyya

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Jul 01 2014 : The Times of India (Bangalore)

ISIS announces `new era of global jihad’

Adam Withnall | THE INDEPENDENT

Seeks Allegiance Of Qaida, Other Terror Outfits

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has declared the areas it occupies in Iraq and Syria as a new Islamic state, removing Iraq and Syria from its name and ushering in “a new era of international jihad“.

The announcement will see ISIS simply refer to itself as `The Islamic State’, and the group has called on alQaida and other related militant Sunni factions operating in the region to immediately pledge their allegiance.

ISIS’s chief spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, said the declaration of the “restoration of the caliphate“ was made after a meeting of the group’s Shura Council.
Recently , ISIS captured large areas of western and northern Iraq and for two years has held parts of Syria, imposing a harsh interpretation of Is lamic law and in many cases, killing large numbers of opposition Shia Muslims. Adnani said all jihadist organizations must now offer up their support to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has been declared caliph of the new state.

Charles Lister, visiting fellow at the Qatar-based Brookings Doha Centre, said that the declaration signalled “massive trouble“ regardless of the perceived legitimacy of the ISIS, adding that the next 24 hours will be “key“. Charlie Cooper, a researcher for the Quilliam counterextremism thinktank, said the fact Baghdadi has been named caliph was particularly controversial.

He said, “There hasn’t been a caliph since the Ottoman Empire outside of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam, and the caliph is appointed as the only legitimate successor to Prophet Mohammed.The fact that ISIS has done this has huge ideological and theological implications and it is a big challenge to al-Qaida, their spokespeople may well try to reclaim their legitimacy .“

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  1. From Quran:
    And when thy Lord said to the angels: ‘I am about to appoint a Khalifah in the earth,’ they said: ‘Wilt Thou place therein such as will cause disorder in it, and shed blood? — and we glorify Thee with Thy praise and extol Thy holiness.’ He answered: ‘I know what you know not.’ [verse 2:38]

    It is Allah who appoints a Khalifah. Baghdadi sahib had a vision or Wahi from Allah that he has been appointed as a Khalifah?

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