This is the third part of a series of audio addresses
made by Abu Jihad Shishani, the second-in-command to Umar Shishani of the
Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham.
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ISIS-Insurgent Conflict
In this address, Abu Jihad turns to foreign fighters
from the North Caucasus in Syria, and asks them why they are not supporting
ISIS in its battle against the insurgents.
Abu Jihad says that the reason ISIS is being attacked
is because it is close to its goal of establishing a Caliphate.
The Chechen jihadi specifically addresses the attack
on ISIS by Abdullah al-Mohaisany, a Saudi jihadi preacher who first traveled to
Syria in 2013 and who has carried out fundraising and propaganda efforts for
Salafi jihadist factions in Syria including Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS.
On January 23, Mohaisany put forward a peace effort,
the Umma Initiative, which was endorsed by all the main factions in Syria and
some outside the country; however ISIS slammed the effort, saying insurgents
first needed to distance themselves from democracy and Western-backed groups
like the Free Syrian Army.
In an audio statement on February 2, Mohaisany said
that certain ISIS groups had deviated from the Salafi-jihadist ideology and
called on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to pack up and return to Iraq.
Address to Brother-Mujahideen In the Lands Of Sham
Brothers, really, can’t you see
what’s going on around you? Brothers are being killed before your eyes, and
you’re still participating with those devils in operations. Their leaders
openly work with America and Saudi. We’ve said more than once that the day will
come when there will only be two armies left – the army of Rahman and the army
of the Devil. The Prophet, talking of trials and fitna, said, “They will
continue until such time as everything is divided into two camps: the camp of
faith, where there won’t be any infidels, and the camp of infidels where there
won’t be any faithful”.
Brothers, those times are coming
and it is time to chose your camp. Look, who is firing against us and to which
camp do they belong?
That dog Hayani, who you yourself
stormed yesterday with us, and whose crimes you saw with your own eyes. Now,
when they and other dogs, like Afash, Ma’arouf, have attacked us, why has this
suddenly turned into a fitna between Muslims, and you don’t want to take part
in it?
I want to remind you of the story
of the three oxen, who were eaten in turn by a lion. You all know that story
really well, right? Now I want to ask you, “What, do you really think that your
turn won’t come?” It is as clear as day that you’ve been left alone for now, so
as not to fritter away strength. Do you really think that they won’t get to
Jabhat al Nusra, whom they consider to be Al Qaeda?
Of course not, they don’t want to
leave a single Mujahid on this Earth, who wants to establish Sharia. Just like they
did in Bosnia, in Chechnya, in Tajikistan and other places of jihad. They used
the Muhajireen (foreign fighters) for their own national interests, and after
the victory they mopped them up and chucked them out.
And why? Well, because the
Mujahideen who liberated territory from the infidels did not establish their
authority on it, the authority of Sharia, but went on further to liberate new
territories, leaving the establishment of Sharia until later. And in that time,
the infidels sent hypocrites onto the liberated lands and they set up their
laws through them. They stabbed the Mujahideen in the back and left them
between two fires.
ISIS will not repeat those
mistakes. We have started to try to establish Sharia on each bit of land on
which it has authority. Exactly for that reason the whole world pounced on
ISIS, because it took the right path toward establishing an Islamic State. And
it is precisely that path that will lead to the establishment of a Caliphate,
which is so hated by the infidels and hypocrites.
Therefore, brothers, let each of
you remember Judgement Day, on which each of you will be asked about your
actions, what you did and whether his brothers were killed before your eyes.
What did he do to establish the Caliphate? And let no one thing that your Amir
will reply for you, because on that terrible day even the prophets will say,
Nafsi, Nafsi (myself, myself). And no one will be able to say, an Amir ordered
us….
Allah ordered us in the Quran,
saying: And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become
divided. And remember the favor of Allah upon you – when you were enemies and
He brought your hearts together and you became, by His favor, brothers. And you
were on the edge of a pit of the Fire, and He saved you from it. Thus does
Allah make clear to you His verses that you may be guided.
How can this verse be revealed in
our time, for ourselves? Look at our recent past in the Caucasus. We, really,
were enemies with each other, we hated each other. The hatred was between the
Karachays and the Cherkessys, between the Kabardians and Balkars, the Ingush
and the Ossetians, and in Dagestan they had their own infighting. And all these
disputes were used by the infidels to weaken our forces. According to the
principle, divide and rule, that’s an old maxim, but they are still using it to
this day.
And when we by the grace of Allah
crossed these national barriers and became brothers, and we started fighting in
one rank, satins from among the jinns and people came to use with another ploy,
exactly the same, but they just changed it a bit . Now instead of nations they
started to talk about lands, “don’t you have your own land, your own state, you
need to fight there”.
Someone might say, but what about
the verse: “Fight those polytheists who are closer to you?” Yes, with those who
are closest to you. And who is closer to you right now? Does it say the
polytheists of your nation, or those on your land? No, it says, “with those who
are closest to you”. Someone tells you: “Look, they have an improper state.”
You ask, how does it differ from ours in the Caucasus? If they say that they
have made an improper oath, ask, and did we have a proper one at home? Anyone
who tells you that at home he had an oath to fight is a liar. Because it is the
same oath to the ruler of the state, and of the Emirate.
Someone will say, that they are
fighting with the Muslims, you tell them, “and when you went to Dagestan,
didn’t you fight the militias?”, all the more so give that there we attacked
and here they attacked us.
They will say, “they are making
takfir with the secular guys”. Ask them what they would say to the Ichkerians
of Zakayev and his gang?
Brothers, we have never been so
close to our goal of establishing the Caliphate, as we are now. The infidels
understood that even faster than some Muslims, so everyone attacked us
together. We need to stand. And if you do not support us in this battle, you
will be judged for that on the Day of Judgement! And remember again, on that
day no one will answer for you except yourself.
So let’s consider the road map of
measures set out by Mohaisany.
First, who is Mohaisany?
This is a man who, as we have
already mentioned, is of the category of those who are close to the border, who
like to be photographed in trucks, with machine guns, grenade launchers,
different kinds of weapons.
And on the battlefield for some
reason they are not visible.
And we have not heard that he was
somewhere nearer to the battlefields.
But he really likes to mention the
errors of ISIS and to hide the mistakes of others. Though he is doing very
nicely, and says he wants a truce, reconciliation, etc. but somehow in his map
all the points are such that he wants to talk about mistakes and conceal some
other errors.
It’s enough that he contradicted
himself several times.
First, when the news spread that
dishonored sisters, he came with the announcement that he personally went to
the command of the FSA and asked, he was told that it was a lie, they do not
have all the sisters. And on this basis, he made an appeal, it’s all
lies, rumors , etc. That the FSA refuted this not confirmed.
Then, after a while on Twitter he
refutes himself and says, ” No, really, there have been cases, I am sorry, and
so on.” Then time passes, and now he makes his last appeal.
These troublemakers moved fast, 24
hours had not even passed, they made a translation and put on their site, in
general, trying to be seen, trying to rekindle the fire of fitnah.
And they do it all with a regretful
, compassionate view that here they are so worried about the fitnah and they
themselves are sitting every second waiting on some news, some provocation.
Sometimes throwing between the lines a bunch of information to make it appear
that they are not only interested in this.
So what did he say in his last address?
He says Dawla (ISIS) refused a truce, etc…
He made a condition for
reconciliation — justice. The very conditions that they offer do not come
anywhere close to justice. That’s one thing, the second is when they say stop
the firing, stop the bloodshed. We have already offered it three times. I have
said and I repeat again, because this is important…
As for reconciliation – that is the
second question that needs to be studied and done right, you need to see who
will do it, who will reconcile, and who will judge. For local judges , I
already told you, who are the judges. I’m not saying that there is no one who
can judge, but we must first see who will judge. That’s why ISIS put a
condition to offer this Mohaisany. For which he said that ISIS set an impossible
condition that is not in the Sharia, etc.
There were 2 conditions:
1. That all parties, including the
party that called to judge between us, indicated their position relating to the
West.
2. That they indicated their
position to criminal regimes of the taghut Arabs, ie Saudi, Qatar and others.
With these two conditions their
plans collapsed. Why , because they had to either say that they do not make
takfir with taghut states or that they are their friends, not enemies. Either
they had to say as it is, and then their cowboy leader would stop all the help
and all will be against them. Naturally, they could not afford neither the one
nor the other…
Abu Jihad says that
the attempts at reconciliation are really an effort to expel ISIS from Syria.
He then adds that Russian-language sites such as
Beladusham are really created by Israeli intelligence with Russian-speaking
agents, who want to spread fitna in Syria.
Abu Jihad says that he has doubts about the veracity
of other statements made by other jihadi leaders including Abu Qatada
al-Filistini and Abu Mohammad al Maqdisi:
We have serious doubts that these references belong to
them, as they are in prison in Jordan. And Jordan, as we know, it is the
strongest among all the Mukhabarat Arab countries. It is difficult to imagine
that they are almost daily spreading their thoughts, their letters, etc. and
that there is no obstruction and interference. EA
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