1. ISIS IDEOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA Irfan Chishti MBE, LLb (Hons), MA, PGCE

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ISIS IDEOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT

THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIAIrfan Chishti MBE, LLb (Hons), MA, PGCE

What does Allah and the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) teach?

- “Killing of one life is like killing the whole of Humanity..” (6:32)

- “O people, We created you from a single male and female and made you into nations and tribes so that ME & YOU could get to know each other. (49: 13)

- “A true believer is someone who keeps other people safe.”

- “Love for others what you love for yourself.”- “The Greater JIHAD is the fight against YOURSELF”

QURANSUNNAH

Rules of War

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The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) sacred seal.GODPROPHETMUHAMMAD

Universal Islamic testimony of faith.“There is no god but GOD.”

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• The group has had a number of different names since its formation in early 2004 – October 2004: Jamāʻat al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād, "The Organization of

Monotheism and Jihad" (JTJ).– The group's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi swore loyalty to

Osama bin Laden and changed the name of the group to Tanẓīm Qāʻidat al-Jihād fī Bilād al-Rāfidayn, "The Organization of Jihad's Base in the Country of the Two Rivers", more commonly known as "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" (AQI)

– January 2006, AQI merged with other Iraqi insurgent groups under the name "Mujahideen Shura Council".

– June 2006 Al-Zarqawi was killed, group’s direction shifted again

• On 29 June 2014, the establishment of a new caliphate was announced, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as its caliph, and the group formally changed its name to the "Islamic State“

• NOT A SECTARIAN ISSUE. Event Salafist muftis say that ISIS and related terrorist groups are not Sunnis at all, but Kharijite heretics serving an anti- Islamic agenda

2004 - 2015

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ISIS Global World View Map

ISIS and the UK Threat

• UK Threat Level – Severe• Escalation in threat influenced by Syria conflict• ISIS gains during 2014• Blowback – concern over returning foreign

fighters• Increase concern over Spontaneous Voluntary

Extremists (Lone Actors)• Families travelling for HIJRA (migration to the

“Caliphate”

12Mohammed Toufique Hussain

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