As the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San
Bernardino show, Islamic State has achieved a
global reach. No longer satisfied with
terrorising large swaths of the Middle East, it is
inspiring, recruiting, training and supplying
terrorists to carry out murderous acts around
the world.
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Given this new international agenda, analysts
are struggling to assess the source of the group
in an attempt to improve their understanding
of how to stop it. In terms of its source, most
point to Saudi Arabia; in terms of stopping it,
most point to the United States. However, a
closer look at Isis reveals that it is engaged in
an entrenched theological war with the Saudi
religious establishment to determine who
justifiably espouses the purest tenets of Sunni
Islam. As the custodian of the two holy
mosques in Mecca and Medina and the host of
the world’s Muslims for the pilgrimage, Saudi
Arabia leads one and a half billion Muslims in
fighting Isis. The kingdom’s leadership of the
recently announced Muslim coalition to fight
terrorism in all its forms
confirms that Saudi Arabia is not only not the
source of Isis but it is the terrorist group’s
central opponent and the only nation that can
fully and legitimately defeat it once and for all.
More than 34 countries have joined the
coalition.
Three factors clarify Saudi Arabia’s intrinsic and
total war on Isis. First, many people claim that
Saudi Arabia is the source of Isis because both
practise a version of Islam called Salafism
(erroneously known in the west as Wahhabism).
Salafism is rooted in the word salaf, or
“forefathers”, and refers to the way the
prophet Muhammad’s followers in the religion’s
first three generations practised Islam. And
while it is true that the kingdom espouses
Salafism, Isis’s claim that it is Salafi has no
theological basis, because the group is in fact a
continuation of a crude sect known as the
Kharijites, or the ones who “defected” from the
Muslim community ( ummah) during the reign
of the fourth caliph Ali (whom the Kharijites
assassinated). The Kharijites, like Isis, believe
that whoever disagreed with them should be
murdered as infidels ( takfir), rationalised mass
killings against civilians including women and
children ( isti’rad), and practised an extreme
form of inquisition to test their opponents’
faith ( imtihan).
Isis’s adherence to the Kharijite ideology is not
the only reason it is not a true Salafi
movement; it has also committed an act of
disobedience that effectively nullifies its Salafi
pretenses. In original Islamic scriptures and
practice, the highest authority is the “guardian”
of the ummah, (wali al amr). All religious,
political and military powers are concentrated
under this authority, which Saudi Arabia’s
system best exemplifies in the modern world.
In other words, King Salman’s legitimacy to rule
is contingent on him being first and foremost
the wali al amr of the people, and in return the
people show their acceptance of his rule by
proclaiming him as their ruler. This
proclamation ( bay’ah) is a contract between the
ruler and the ruled in which the first swears to
promote Islam and the welfare of the second,
and the second swears to obey ( ta’ah) the
tenets of Islam and follow the first’s leadership.
Should the first deviate from Islam, the second
is obliged to replace him. The joint bay’ah of
the ummah to the ruler is fundamental to
Salafism and anyone that breaks the bay’ah – as
Isis has done – can never again be considered a
true Salafi.
Given the importance of the wali al amr to
Sunni Islam, Isis and Saudi Arabia are locked in
a theological struggle from which only one can
emerge victorious.
The second reason Saudi Arabia and Isis are in
complete opposition is that the core mission of
Isis is to restore the caliphate, an Islamic
empire led by a supreme leader. Given that
the kingdom is the epicentre of Islam, Isis’s
road to the caliphate lies through the kingdom
and the Saudi people. Isis has conducted a
series of terrorist attacks in the kingdom in the
past year. In response Saudi Arabia has put the
group on its list of terrorist sponsors, declared
that belonging to or funding Isis is a crime
punishable by death and arrested countless Isis
supporters, operatives and financiers.
The final reason why Saudi Arabia is Isis’s
strategic enemy is financial. As an organisation
with expanding ambitions, Isis requires ever-
expanding resources. Therefore, just like al-
Qaida, Isis covets the kingdom’s enormous oil
fields and monetary wealth.
When Isis first appeared in Syria in 2011, Saudi
Arabia tried to galvanise support for the
moderate Syrian opposition. But the world
failed to listen. Now Isis is a threat not only to
the Middle East but also to the entire world.
Only a coalition led by Saudi Arabia can
genuinely defeat Isis while also delegitimising
the group in the eyes of the wider Muslim
world. If the nations of the world hope to
completely defeat Isis, they should stop falsely
accusing the Saudis of creating the group and
instead join them in defeating it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/22/saudi-arabia-isis-us-terrorists-coalition

Yes he that originates something must know how to end it.

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Yes he that originates something must know how to end it.

Perfectly fits what I was thinking about the whole thing. They shouldn't forget to mention the EUSUKIS that is EU,US,UK= 'moderate liver eaters and throat cutters' and Israel for the great medical services to the "moderates".