Hey, ISIS!! You Are Neither Islamic Nor a Caliphate!! But You Are a State -Only For the Insane!!

Now here is something which we attorneys live by: "Show me the evidence."  The second Caliph, Omar, in his instructions to the judges in the middle of the seventh century, laid it down.  He said: "The burden of proof is on the plaintiff."  In this posting, I consider myself a "plaintiff."  So here is my proof.

You, ISIS, call yourselves "Islamic."  But Islamic Law (Sharia), which I teach, denies you that status.  None of your "jihadi" forays accords with Sharia.  The list of my evidentiary items is long.  But I shall abridge it to avoid cumulative evidence:

(1) You declared that your raison d'etre is for the propagation of Islam.

• But Islamic Law does not extend jihad to the propagation of Islam.

(2) You claim that your mission is to rescue the West and other part of the non-Muslim world from ignorance (Jahiliah) of the present time.

• But in Islamic Law there is no proselytization.  Islam, through the principle of Tawheed (God is one), has equated between all faiths.  It left the final reckoning not to you, but to the Creator.  There is no middle man who decides who is faithful to God and who is not.  The Quran state: "If anyone invokes, beside Allah (God), any other god...his reckoning will be only with his Lord."  (Chapter 23 "The Believers;" verse 117).

(3) You hug your sword, or your knife, or your artillery, as a means of coercing others, Muslims and non-Muslims, into seeing life and the world through an ISIS distorted prism.  Thus, you assume that Islam has tasked you with being "an army of God."

• But Islam abhors any use of force except for self-defense.  Same with international law.  The Quran states: "Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and beautiful breaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious." (Chapter 16; verse 125).  Your most gracious way is head-cutting!!

(4) You claim that your jihad is akin to what Muhammad and his companions waged at the inception of Islam.

• But prior to Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina, Muhammad and his Companions confronted their tormentors with the jihad of wisdom, the friendly advice, patience, endurance and immigration.
• The first Muslim immigration was to a Christian country, Ethiopia which welcomed them with open arms.  It was later followed by the immigration (hijrah) of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina.  This is where the true Islamic State was founded.

(5) You confuse between the concept of "jihad" and the concept of combat "qital." 

• In Islam, jihad is an internal striving for self-improvement.  It becomes external only for self-defense.  Islam regards the defensive war as the only just war.  Muslims do not aggress; they only defend against external aggression.

(6) Your jihad is mayhem through an endless war which eliminates borders -a borderless State.

• But this is neither jihad, which is a legal concept, specifically circumscribed, and judicially sanctioned.  Nor is it Qital (combat) which is limited in scope as it arises from the exigencies of the State -the sovereign right to exist.  This leaves you only with a threatening black flag which declares: "God, and Muhammad, his Prophet."  You abide by neither.  

(7) You deny all others (Shias; Christians; Jews...etc.) the right to exist.  To you, the only humans who are entitled to live are the Sunnis.  Even those must be extremist Sunnis.

• But the Quran establishes an inclusive community of believers across the entire spectrum of humankind.  It speaks of "the people of the Book."  It glorifies Jesus as "the word of God," born through immaculate conception.  The Quran, which your practices have shredded, describes Moses as "God's Interlocutor" (Kaleemullah).  It treats all others as equal through the call "Allahu Akbar" -meaning we are all equal before God.

(8) You have enslaved women through captivity, lust, and dehumanization through an austere forms of dress and conduct.

• Contrary to sterotypes, Islam, through the Quran and the Sunna, has equated between male and female.  The Quran's verses in that regard are misread as to mean inequality in terms of inheritance, giving witness, and the like.  These have been amended or supplemented by legislated law (man-made; not God-made).  Thus today we have female judges even in Aden (Yemen), women pilots in Egypt, Presidents of States, and paratroopers in Jordan.

(9) For purposes of recruitment, you prey world-wide on the young who are disaffected, aimless, misunderstanding of Islam, or simply seeking either an identity or a job.  Now, out of your 30,000 troops, you have 8000 from east, west, north and south.  These are being raised by you as killers -all in the name of God.

• Islam establishes the principle of cooperation for good work. (the Quranic verse is "cooperate in doing what is good."  Islam abhors deceptive propaganda, epitomized by your savage videos, which advocates chaos (Fitna).  Chaos is a formless void of confusion.  In its allocation of degrees of danger to society, the Quran regards "Chaos" (fitna) as more destructive of society's fabric than murder.  Reason: murder affects one; fitna affects all.

(10) Your distorted advocacy of a concept of jihad without borders instills hostility amongst States.  Your so-called "islamic program, a projection of a Caliphate," aims at leading to raising the ISIS flag over all capitals.  This idiocy has generated a world-wide wave of islamophobia.

• Yet all the members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) -all 57 Member States are parties to a world-wide contract, called the U.N. Charter.  The Charter is a treaty.  The treaty is a contact.  "O ye who believe!  Fulfil all obligations" (The Quran; Chapter 5, verse I).  Emphasis on "friendly relations" between States, which you are bent on disturbing, is of such importance, that it is a part of written in the preamble of the U.N. Charter.

(11) You pick and choose from among the nearly 6400 verses of the Quran.  Thus you do what you are enjoined not to do by the primary source of Islamic Law.

• The Quran abhors saying by the mouth what one does not do, either by deed or at least by intention.  Thus it says: "Why do you say what you do not do?!!"  
• You lack the knowledge of Tafseer (interpretation of the intended words or speech).  You lack the qualification for issuing Fatwas (a non-enforceable religions advice anchored in deep knowledge of Islam).  You lack the support of Ijmaa (unanimity among Muslim scholars at a given time -a form of ijtihad). This is the application of the mind to the written verse.
• You lack basic knowledge of Islamic history.  Muslim ministries of defense in various countries from Istanbul to Cairo to Khartoum were called "The Jihadiya Ministry."  That was a proper usage of the term "jihad" -self-defense, proceeded by self-policing.
• In this context, you ISIS, are nowhere to be found, except as marauders, head-cutters, ransom-extortionists, natural resources snatchers, Islamophobia generators!!
• I am not finished yet, ISIS.  This is only Part I.  Part II shall be in a future blog.  -IS (Insane State): Stay tuned.  But keep your black masks on -another method of separating you from the rest of the human race!!