One of the videos that were disseminated on Twitter accounts affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), in the last few days, outlines the basic tenets of the "caliphate"
This video is titled "The Doctrine of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, may Allah keep it." Oren Adakin, of the Long War Journal, went to the trouble of translating it (many thanks from all), and posting it. The video presents a rundown of 18 core ISIS tenets, ostensibly in order to "respond to some lies" about ISIS circulating in the media. The 18 core tenets outlined in the video are as follows:
1) The requirement to destroy and remove all manifestations of polytheism and to proscribe its means.
2) The rafida [Shi'ites] are a community of polytheism and apostasy who prevent the application of many obvious tenets of Islam.
3) The infidelity and apostasy of the sorcerer and the requirement to kill him and not accept his repentance.
4) We do not deem any Muslim commander/leader a kafir [infidel].
5) The requirement of adjudicating according to Allah's law by way of bringing cases to Shar'iah courts.
6) The requirement to revere the Prophet, peace and blessings upon him.
7) Secularism, patriotism, nationalism, et cetera, are all outright infidelity that removes [a believer] from the religious community.
8) Aiding and assisting the occupier in any form is considered infidelity and apostasy.
9) Jihad in the cause of Allah is religious requirement since the fall of al Andalus [Southern Spain].
10) Civilians who have been defended by the "cannons of disbelief" and have triumphed are considered infidels.
11) The requirement to fight the police and military of the state of apostasy and idol-worship.
12) The jihadi groups working on the field are brothers to us in religion.
13) Any group or individual who enters into an agreement with the occupying invader is not seen as binding on us and instead [any such agreement] is seen as void.
14) The requirement to revere the pure clerics.
15) We recognize the right of those who preceded us in jihad, we take up their home and succeed them with goodness.
16) The requirement to rescue Muslim prisoners from the hands of the infidels and to take care of their families and the families of the martyrs.
17) The requirement that the ummah [Muslim nation] studies the issues of its religion as well as requiring that it learns what is necessary from "worldly knowledge."
18) The proscription of everything that calls for obscenity and we require from women the religious requirement of covering her face and maintaining her purity.
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The tenets show no mercy for Shiites. Number three signals a bloodbath. However, already reports are coming back that areas liberated by units made up mostly of Saddam's veterans show nationalist/tribal tendencies and are very tolerant of all sorts of "heathen" activities.
The reference to Andalus, in tenet 9, is not by chance. It's a veiled threat to Europe. There are battalions of European jihadists fighting with ISIS, as well as Turks, that can serve in other roles as well. The leader of ISIS, al Baghadi, has been portrayed in several social media as the new Caliph, and likened to Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (Saladin). Saladin wrested the "Holy Lands" from the "heathens". Unlike al Bahdadi, though, he was truly a warrior/scholar who showed himself in his mercy and tolerance of others.
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