The executions of Western journalists and aid workers continues unabated. Violence against Sufi and orthodox Sunni Shia, Christian and minorities is attributed to a the Deobandi/Salafi ideology. This is not to say that there is something wrong with a child born into a Salafi or Deobandi household. In fact vast majority of the Salafis and Deobandis are peaceful. At the same time we have to call a spade a spade, not only almost all terrorism is Deobandi or Salafi related, appeal to non Muslim converts is also evident. There will always be a small minority of people that this Khawariji Takfirism effects but they almost always be Deoabandi, Salafi or Saudi related.

It is an ideology of Salafi Deoabandi Takfirism that is creating this violence, billions of dollars of funding by Saudi Arabia to Western mosques has converted a majority of Sunni Muslims to Wahhabism and Takfirism in the West.

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Henning, 47, a taxi driver from Salford, a town near Manchester, was seized while taking part in an aid convoy near Syria’s border with Turkey. Islamic State militants threatened to kill Henning in a video that showed the killing of another Briton, aid worker David Haines.

The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, emerged from obscurity this year to capture vast swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, countries plagued by instability and war. Espousing a severe interpretation of Sunni Islam, the extremists have beheaded two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, in apparent retaliation for U.S.-led airstrikes in the region. Islamic State militants have also threatened to kill an Iraqi journalist who refused to cooperate with the organization.

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The video released on Friday is yet to be verified, but it appears to show Mr Henning kneeling beside a militant, who is dressed in black, in a desert setting.

The footage ends with an IS fighter threatening a man they identify as Mr Kassig.

In a statement, Mr Kassig’s family said he had converted to Islam and referred to him as Abdul Rahman Kassig.

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CAMBRIDGE, England — IN the last few years, there has been a dramatic rise of a seemingly new type of polity: the Islamic rebel state. Boko Haram in West Africa, the Shabab in East Africa, the Islamic Emirate in the Caucasus and, of course, the Islamic State in the Middle East, known as ISIS, or ISIL — these movements not only call for holy war against the West, but also use their resources to build theocracies.

Though in some respects unprecedented, these groups also have much in common with the Islamic revivalist movements of the 18th century, such as the Wahhabis on the Arabian Peninsula and the great jihadist states of the 19th century. They waged jihad against non-Muslim powers, and at the same time sought to radically transform their own societies.

One of the first groups to engage in anticolonial jihad and state-building was the fighters led by Abd al-Qadir, who challenged the French imperial invasion of North Africa in the 1830s and 1840s. Qadir declared himself “commander of the faithful” — the title of a caliph — and founded an Islamic state in western Algeria, with a capital in Mascara, a regular army and an administration that enforced Shariah law and provided some public services. The state was never stable, nor did it ever encompass a clearly defined territory; it was eventually destroyed by the French.

Equally short lived was the Mahdist state in Sudan, lasting from the early 1880s to the late 1890s. Led by the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“redeemer”) Muhammad Ahmad, the movement called for jihad against their Egyptian-Ottoman rulers and their British overlords, and it established state structures, including a telegraph network, weapon factories and a propaganda apparatus. The rebels banned smoking, alcohol and dancing and persecuted religious minorities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/opinion/the-ancestors-of-isis.html

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