Islamic State ‘null and void’, says caliphate advocate Hizbut Tahrir

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Islamic State ‘null and void’, says caliphate advocate Hizbut Tahrir

BY ZURAIRI AR

Saturday October 3, 2015
04:07 PM GMT+8

Hizbut Tahrir members waving flags and shouting slogans during Muktamar Khilafah 2015 at the Hotel Nouvelle in Seri Kembangan, October 3, 2015. — Picture by Yusof Mat IsaSERI KEMBANGAN, Oct 3 — Hizbut Tahrir (HT), the Islamist group seeking to establish a worldwide Islamic caliphate, has again dissociated itself today from the Islamic State (IS) established by self-styled caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

According to the international religious hardline group, IS’self-styled caliphate is “null and void” as Al-Baghdadi did not obtain the “bai’ah”, or loyalty oath from the whole Muslim community to declare himself as caliph, but rather only from his allies.

“HT has openly expressed our viewpoint regarding this alleged caliphate. We find it to be null and void,” HT’s international spokesman Osman Bakhash said at the sidelines of the group’s Muktamar Khilafah 2015, a congress on establishing a caliphate here.

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ISIS ‘Lethal Threat;’‘It’s Global Caliphate Would Extend to United States’
January 12, 2016 | Testifying in the House Armed Services Committee today, former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell said that the Islamic State, which he referred to as ISIS, poses a “a significant strategic and lethal threat to the United States of America” and that it envisions a “global caliphate” that “would extend to the United States of America itself.”

“ISIS is gaining affiliates among extremists groups around the world,” Morell told the committee. “They are signing up—these groups are signing up--for what ISIS desires as its objective: a global caliphate, where day-to-day life is governed by extreme religious views. In the mind of ISIS, it’s global caliphate would extend to the United States of America itself." “We have not faced the likes of it before,” Morell told the committee in a hearing entitled, "Outside Views on the U.S. Strategy for Iraq and Syria and the Evolution of Islamic Extremism." “Let me start with the bottom line: I believe ISIS poses a significant strategic and lethal threat to the United States of America,” said Morell. “That is a very strong statement. Let me walk you through why I believe that. The nature and significance of the threat posed by ISIS flow from the fact that ISIS is at the same time a terrorist group, a quasi-state and a revolutionary political movement.”

Morell said he believe ISIS now poses both an indirect and a direct threat to the U.S. homeland, with the indirect threat represented by “homegrown extremists” who align themselves with ISIS. “There are thousands of ISIS sympathizers in the United States, more than al Qaida ever had,” said Morell. “The FBI has over 900 open investigations into home-grown extremists, the vast majority radicalized by ISIS and a large number of which relate to individuals who may be plotting attacks here. Such attacks have already occurred in the United States, including the attack in San Bernardino last month, which in terms of fatalities was the largest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11.”

Morell said the direct threat comes from ISIS’s ability to plan attacks on the United States from the territory it now controls in Iraq and Syria, which he said has become virtually an ISIS-controlled state—or what he called a “quasi-state.” “Today, in addition to that indirect threat, we face a direct threat,” said Morell. “We face a direct threat from ISIS--an ISIS capability to plan and direct attacks in the homeland from the group’s safe haven in Iraq and Syria—largely from Raqqa in Syria--just like the group did in Paris in November.”

He said that a direct ISIS attack on the United States would differ from an indirect attack in that it would be bring more casualties. “A lone wolf attack, while horrific, is likely to produce fairly limited casualties on the order of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, three killed, or the shootings at Fort Hood in 2009, 12 killed,” he said. “A directed attack, however, carries the potential to be more complex and more sophisticated, multiple simultaneous attacks for example, and therefore more deadly—again just like Paris, 130 killed, or London in 2005, 56 killed, or even 9/11 itself.”

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