Written by: Harith Hisham
From its emergence to the present day, ISIS has heavily invested in and operated through three core strategies, which elucidate the foundation and objectives of their movement.
1. Takfir (Excommunication):
ISIS embraces the doctrine of “takfir”, whereby individuals who dissent from their ideology are branded as disbelievers (kafir) or apostates (murtad). In accordance with this ideology, they target fellow Muslims, Islamic scholars, and Islamic communities, deeming them as adversaries.
The ISIS group labels all Muslims outside their ideological sphere as apostates, irreligious, or disbelievers. They rationalize warfare against them as jihad and persist in their unjust war against authentic Muslims.
2. Misinterpretation of Shariah:
ISIS distorts the interpretation of Islamic Shariah to align with their own desires, manipulating its tenets to validate their illicit actions through selective and misinterpreted references.
In Islamic Shariah, the unjustified taking of an innocent life is akin to the extermination of all of humanity. Nonetheless, the ISIS-Khawarij routinely martyr innocent Muslims without rationale, assaulting them and perpetuating their conflict even within an Islamic nation like Afghanistan.
3. Spreading Fear and Terror:
ISIS endeavors to attain its malevolent and illicit objectives through fear, tyranny, and brutality. They sow chaos wherever they traverse, mercilessly killing children, oppressing young females, exploiting them as slaves, and using these heinous acts to besmirch the reputation of the Islamic caliphate.
The actions and behaviors of ISIS clearly indicate that it is an extremist, takfiri, and barbaric faction. Their aim is to besmirch Islam, dismantle the revered concept of the Islamic caliphate that governed with dignity for centuries and upheld the sanctity of Islam.
Their True Objectives:
ISIS aspires to fracture the Muslim Ummah into myriad factions, eliminate unity among Muslims, and dismantle the Islamic system in regions like Afghanistan. However, their aspirations will never come to fruition as long as the true guardians of Islam and valiant Mujahideen endure in this territory, by the will of Allah.
