Four New Jihadist Groups Planning Islamic Caliphate!

And the caliphate grows every day, but remember, Obama says it has nothing to do with Islam.

*SMH* It is pure Islam. Authentic Islam.

Four New Jihadist Groups Planning Islamic Caliphate – Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Southern Philippines, MEMRI, September 10, 2014

Growing Support For The Islamic State (IS) From South Asia To The Far East; Four New Jihadist Groups Planning Islamic Caliphate Comprising Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, And Southern Philippines By: Tufail Ahmad*

Indian Muslims sporting ISIS T-shirts at a mosque in Ramanathapuram district

Table of Contents

Introduction
Support From Pakistani Jihadists
a) Bai’yah From “Tahreek-e-Khilafat Wa Jihad”
b) Bai’yah From “Ansar Al-Dawla Al-Islamiyyah Fi Pakistan”
c) Radical Pakistani Cleric Abdul Aziz Endorses IS

III. Support From Afghanistan And Pakistan

IS’s Pashtu-Dari Magazine Distributed In Pakistani And Afghan Towns
Support From Kashmir And Other Parts Of India
a) Indian Cleric Salman Nadwi Greets Al-Baghdadi
b) Kashmiri Youth Wave ISIS Flags; Australia-Educated Kashmiri Moves To Syria
c) Tamil Nadu Muslim Youth Wear T-Shirts In Support Of ISIS
d) Four Youth Flew From Mumbai; 80 Indians Fighting In Iraq And Syria
Jihadists From The Maldives; 20 Maldivians Fighting In Syria
Jihadists From Singapore; Indians In Singapore Went To Syria

VII. From Indonesian Prisons, Jihadists Urge Bai’yah For Al-Baghdadi

VIII. The Philippines Bai’yah Offered By Jama’at Ansar Al-Khilafa
IS Bomber From Malaysia; Jihadists Plotted A Wave Of Bombings
New Jihadist Groups Floating Islamic Caliphate Across Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Southern Thailand and Southern Philippines

I) Introduction

On August 20, a media report surfaced that the Islamic State, which executed U.S. photojournalist James Foley, had “sent a laundry list of demands for the release of the foreigners [captured by the militants in Iraq], starting with money but also prisoner swaps, including the liberation of Aafia Siddiqui, an M.I.T.-trained Pakistani neuroscientist” who is imprisoned in the U.S. over ties to Al-Qaeda.[1] This paper examines the growing support across Asian countries, from Pakistan to Indonesia, for the Islamic State (IS) led by jihadist commander Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.

In an audio statement released on June 29, the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan in the Middle East, Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani, the spokesman of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), announced that the group had established an “Islamic Caliphate” and its leader Al-Baghdadi was appointed as the Caliph of Islam.[2] Al-Adnani also announced that the name ISIS would no longer be used and only “the Islamic State,” representing the single Islamic caliphate, would be used.

The Islamic caliphate has religious resonance across the Muslim world. This will trace how the Islamic State is inspiring jihadists outside the Middle East, mainly from South Asia to the Far East. It should be noted that the June 29 statement declaring Al-Baghdadi as the Caliph of Islam, known also as Emir-ul-Momineen (Leader of the Faithful Muslims), came after several weeks of jihadist rampage in which ISIS fighters took control of several Iraqi cities, butchered hundreds of Iraqi government soldiers, killed Shia Muslims in Iraq, and demolished holy shrines across the country. The declaration that Al-Baghdadi is the new Caliph of Islam also denotes a division in the global jihadist movement. The title of Emir-ul-Momineen, or the caliph, had so far been held by Mullah Muhammad Omar, the leader of Afghan Taliban and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Al-Qaeda’s slain leader Osama bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda affiliates in several countries have offered their bai’yah (oath of fealty) to Mullah Omar.

Since the Al-Baghdadi-led ISIS had been expelled from Al-Qaeda, it was inevitable that it would declare a rival caliph. However, the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban groups have refrained from commenting on the announcement of the caliphate by Al-Baghdadi, though their rank and file are enthused by ISIS’s spectacular achievements across Iraq and Syria. Therefore, statements of support for the IS and its leader Al-Baghdadi began coming from many parts of the world, including Asian countries such as Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and Indonesia. However, it is relevant here to keep in mind that there is another category of jihadists in Pakistan who share the ideological objectives of Al-Qaeda and the IS, but haven’t publicly expressed support for Al-Baghdadi. This is mainly due to the fact that these groups, namely Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), were created by and work at the behest of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the branch of Pakistani military known for creating and nurturing jihadist organizations.

In view of the jihad by Al-Qaeda and its allied groups over the past decade and more, it is difficult for common Muslims to distinguish the Islamic State from Al-Qaeda. Therefore, a number of Muslim youth, motivated solely by jihad, joined either ISIS/IS or Jabhat Al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, over the past few years. These youth went from Afghanistan-Pakistan region as well as from the Maldives, Jammu & Kashmir state, and elsewhere in India, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia to fight in Iraq and Syria. In Bangladesh, on India’s eastern border, the government has bravely countered the jihadists over the past five years, yet in August, there was at least one video in which a group of Bangladeshis expressed bai’yah to Al-Baghdadi.[3] Based on media reports that emerged this year, this paper reviews these developments: expressions of support for Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, especially the formal offerings of bai’yah, and reports about Muslim youth moving to Iraq and Syria to join various jihadist organizations, as well as the strengthening of jihadist groups as a result of the inspiration from the ISIS/IS in the Far Eastern countries of Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and others.

Declaration of bai’yah by Pakistan-based Tahreek-e-Khilafat Wa Jihad
II) Support From Pakistani Jihadists
a) Bai’yah From “Tahreek-e-Khilafat Wa Jihad”

Outside the Middle East, the Pakistan-based Tahreek-e-Khilafat Wa Jihad (TKJ, or Movement for the Caliphate and Jihad) became the first terrorist group to formally offer bai’yah to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi after he declared himself as the Caliph of Islam. The KTJ has been active in Karachi and its surrounding towns over the past 3-4 years. The jihadist group was previously seen in the company of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan.

In a statement in Urdu published on a Pakistani jihadi forum, the TKJ offered a formal bai’yah to Al-Baghdadi, adding: “From today [July 9], the caliph of Muslims, Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may Allah protect him, [should] consider us in Pakistan as one of the arrows he has in his bow. We pray that he may [allow] us to see the day when the borders of the Islamic caliphate will expand to the Pakistan-India Subcontinent and Khorasan [Afghanistan-Pakistan region].”[4]

The statement also explained: “The establishment of the caliphate … is compulsory on all Muslims in the same way that prayer, fasting, and jihad are compulsory. One hundred years have passed since the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate, whereas the jurists [of the past] wouldn’t accept the absence of the caliph for more than three days…”[5] In an earlier statement dated February 27, 2014, the TKJ had outlined its objectives: to liberate Muslim lands from the infidels and demolish the oppressive system of government prevalent there and establish Islamic sharia rule there, explaining that the duty of jihad is compulsory on every Muslim.[6]
Pakistani youth express support for ISIS in June
b) Bai’yah From “Ansar Al-Dawla Al-Islamiyyah Fi Pakistan”

Over past few years, a number of Pakistani jihadists were reported to have moved from Pakistan to Syria and Iraq to fight against the government forces; the movement of many such youth was also informally facilitated by Pakistan as part of its pro-Saudi policy on Syria. Therefore, it was not surprising that first videos of support for Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi came from Pakistani jihadists fighting in the Iraq-Syria region. Before the June 29 declaration of the caliphate by Al-Baghdadi, two videos were released by ISIS. More