Monday, December 21, 2015

Pakistani Taliban dubs ISIS

Pakistani Taliban has dubbed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) “un-Islamic” for its methods and strongly criticized leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. As IS attempts to widen its influence beyond Syria and Iraq, it seems to be making a few ‘frenemies’.
The Taliban’s Pakistani branch, or Tehreek-e-Taliban, is the latest militant group angered by IS’s pretentions to a caliphate. It believes al-Baghdadi is no caliph and definitely not the leader of the world’s Muslims, rating him as merely a local gang boss.
These beliefs, according to Reuters, were outlined in a scathing letter on Saturday and follow similar sentiments expressed by other militant groups – that al-Baghdadi is no real caliph, because he doesn’t command the world’s Muslims, rather only people in a particular territory.Pakistani Taliban doesn’t want to set up its own Sharia state by toppling the government in Islamabad. However, those ambitions are local. IS, they fear, has little to do with South Asia anymore. The two Taliban groups (the other in Afghanistan) share the view that only centralized leadership will work in their share of the region – a view expressed earlier in the Afghan Taliban’s own letter to al-Baghdadi’s group.
The cruelty of IS gets special mention in the current address by the Pakistani branch. Again, similar statements were made to ones expressed by the Afghan denomination, that killing mujahideen of the Taliban indiscriminately and barbarically disqualifies IS from being real Muslims.
The message went on to state that al-Baghdadi’s selection as leader was not in accordance with Islamic rules.RT News
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