BP Op-Ed: Jihadi John neither targeted nor killed by the US?

[Bleipriester]

Not long after the Syrian army eliminated a major ISIS-butcher, who burned Christians in cages, in Aleppo´s southeastern countryside, the US claimed it started a months long planned operation aiming at the killing of Jihadi John. The Pentagon claimed, that Jihadi John is now probably dead.

Syrian army killed this monster:

Jihadl Stadl, however, is said to have fled the terrorist group earlier this year. So it is unlikely, that he still resided in ISIS-controlled Ar-Raqqa. As for his whereabouts, maybe ISIS-Sally could inform us. Her lover may now be detectable in her basement or bed.

A lollipop for ISIS-Sally

Jihadi John 'on the run after becoming terrified of ISIS chiefs

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Jihadists make hamburger in Paris, and Obama touts the supposed death of this clown as a great victory.

As if it would make a difference.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Should have nuked Jihad Johns compound last year

 

[waltky]

Isn't that the way of things?...

Jihadi John is dead, but others will replace him
Nov 16, 2015 - I first met the notorious Islamic State (Isis) killer Mohammed Emwazi in December 2010. Then he was a 22-year-old computer science graduate from west London. The impressionable Emwazi had been drawn into a network of British jihadists that was being closely monitored by MI5.

When I knew him he was very angry, complaining that the security services had destroyed two serious relationships with women he intended to marry and had blocked him from returning to Kuwait, which he regarded as his home. I wanted to help but the planned article didn't work out and we lost contact with each other in March 2011. Four years later I came across him again - in a series of grotesque videos as the masked murderer of Isis who rejoiced in the beheading of innocent civilians. It was almost impossible to believe this was the same person. The man I knew was not a natural born killer. In just four years he had turned from Islamist agitator to psychopathic mass murderer. But it is easy to forget that Emwazi was not the cause of the hostages' deaths - he was only the instrument.

Emwazi was thoroughly westernised and so held great symbolic value for Isis. But he was always only a puppet of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the terror group's leader, and his emirs. When his identity was revealed in February and he was shown to be an ordinary, shy Londoner who struggled to get on with girls he immediately lost his mystique and more importantly his propaganda value. As far as al-Baghdadi was concerned he had outlived his usefulness. He will have no trouble replacing Emwazi from his cadre of killers. And his death will not deter other British jihadists from following in his footsteps to join the ranks of the caliphate. There are plenty of young Muslim men living in the UK who have similar grievances. The terrible events in Paris on Friday night serve as a graphic reminder of what happens when these young people turn their grievances into terrorism.

The inevitable political response to such atrocities is to introduce tougher counter-terrorism policies and invoke rhetoric about winning wars and destroying our enemies. In France, the security services and prosecutors enjoy some of the widest investigative powers in the world. These have demonstrably failed to protect the French people from two devastating terror attacks in less than 10 months. Today, France's Arab Muslim communities who live in the capital's suburbs are more marginalised than ever. We can't win a war on terrorism simply by arresting more and more people. We need properly reasoned policies which will stop grievances turning into terrorism.

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IS marks a departure from traditional Islamic thoughts
Nov 16, 2015 - The Islamic State marks a big and significant departure from a progression of theological and political thought in the Middle East since the early 20th century that harked to Quranic values but did not endorse the IS's fanatical rejection of any society or state that even marginally deviates from the norms it advocates.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, or the Ikhwan, who draw their ideological sustenance from leaders like Hassan al-Banna, an Islamic revivalist, and Sayyid Qutb, a trenchant critic of western culture, have participated in elections despite the military blatantly skewing the rules and overturning results. Though its brief stint in office after the Arab Spring ended prematurely as it hastily and clumsily sought to impose its political programme, the brotherhood's MPs have often raised bread and butter issues vigorously even as they remain committed to the goal of establishing a religious state.

The Ikhwan's leaders, including former president Mohammed Morsi, are today subject to a ruthless judicial persecution at the hands of the military. It is not for the first time that their purported extremism has justified harsh measures with Qutb, author of Milestones, a Muslim manifesto of sorts, hanged for alleged conspiracy against Gamal Abdel Nasser. But for all the doctrinaire teachings of their founders, the brotherhood contested elections even if some saw it as a ploy to win power and then ensure the end of all such contests thereafter. The popular reaction against Morsi's government that allowed the military seize power indicates this idea meets a lot of resistance.

While "secularism" is not much in vogue in the Middle East and north Africa, elections in several countries, even if limited and often irregular, do not indicate an overwhelming acceptance of the Islamic State's desire to recreate 7th century Arabia on the basis of the harshest examples to be found in religious and legal texts. Before al-Banna and Qutb, there were pan-Islamists like Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani and Mohammed Abduh, who gave British colonialists much grief and led to their living in an almost constant state of exile. Their teachings saw Islam as a unitarian system with a religious-political-personal code that offered solutions that were impenetrable to the material world.

Abduh's Syrian student Rashid Rida was somewhat different though. While he shared al-Afghani and Abduh's desire for a return to the "first principles", he made a strong case for the establishment of caliphate, being concerned at the collapse of Ottoman rule. The IS has adopted the caliphate concept with gusto. There were other advocates of a religious state, including theologians like Abul Ala Mawdudi who settled in Pakistan. While they wielded influence, their rejection of modern democracy did not find the acceptance they sought. The Islamic State, however, has gone more than several steps ahead, outdoing predecessors like al-Qaida in its determination to exterminate all societies not in conformity with its beliefs.

IS marks a departure from traditional Islamic thoughts - Times of India