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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

The Melchizedek Chronicles - The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia - What might destiny have in store? Can he complete the dreams of Cyrus the Great, Darius I and beloved Saladin?


Unify the Arab and Persian worlds


Restore the glory of the ancient empires?


Bring spiritual evolution to the Muslim world


Inspire peace between all religions


Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 

June 21, 2017 became Crown Prince.
Born   August 31, 1985

If you were the Creator, God, Allah, YHWH, the Supreme Being, and looked down on your Creation today, what would you think?

Personally, I think he would be disappointed to say the least.  No matter what your culture or religion might be, I am quite sure your God shares the same sentiment.  We live in a contaminated world.

People have lost their moral and ethical compass, they no longer live the Will of the Creator, hate overshadows love and anger dominates fear.  We are more enslaved than any point in our history, financial, sexual, addictions, digital, depression and despair.
    
Of all the disappointment we caused, thanks to our free will and poor decision-making, one disappointment stands alone in the eyes of the Creator.

God’s creations, us, after all their time on Earth, have never brought peace, sustained peace, to the holiest of all lands on earth, the Holy Lands, home to where God once talked to humans and we talked to him.

Where the sacred teachings were revealed to man, the holiest of Holy sites still remain, and where Jesus lived and worked miracles for man.


The Holy Land - birthplace of three religions

There are three religions whose history is interwoven with the Holy Lands, the old city of Jerusalem, where each religion has sacred sites.  The most important of these include;

The Temple Mount (Haram Al-Sharif)
The Temple Mount is a massive plaza of stone in the South East corner of Jerusalem’s Old City surrounded by date palms and cypress trees. Arguably the most holy place in the city, it has major significance to all three religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity).

It’s thought to be Mount Moriah, where Abraham offered to sacrifice his son Isaac to God. Today on the Temple Mount complex you’ll find two important Islamic structures, the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.


For Jews, the Temple Mount was the location of the First Temple built by King Solomon in 957 BC to house the Ark of the Covenant (which held the Ten Commandments) in a special room called “The Holy of Holies”.  It is the most sacred site in Judaism, and the Foundation Stone under the dome is where Earth was first created.

For Muslims, Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) is the 3rd holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The rock under the dome is where the Prophet Muhammad left Earth to visit heaven on a winged horse during his Night Journey in the 7th Century. It was also the direction of Islamic prayer before God allowed Muhammad to pray towards Mecca instead.


For Christians, the Temple Mount is significant because the Jewish temple located here was where Jesus prayed daily and later preached with his disciples.  Jerusalem is also where the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus took place.

All three religions find themselves under attack from within their own congregations while also fighting off challenges from outside forces.  Oh yes, they even find time to fight each other in the process.


In order to understand the destiny of the Crown Prince in the eyes of Melchizedek, one must have a knowledge of the entire Middle East and the historic events that shaped them, not just the history of the region but of the entire world.

Recap of Middle East History

There is a reason Iran is considered the cradle of civilization, and the Middle East is the bridge between the European and Asian cultures, a crossroads for the world.  Yet for all the gifts bestowed on the Middle East by God or Allah, why is it not the holiest, most sacred, most peaceful place on Earth filled with the grace of the Creator?

Today, the young Crown Prince, has an opportunity before him to complete the dreams of some of the most powerful and beloved leaders of the Persian, Arab, and Muslim nations from the region.


Cyrus the Great, king of ancient Persia, founder of the greatness of the Achaemenids and of the Persian Empire (c. 559 – 529 B.C.)


Darius I (Darius the Great), king of ancient Persia (521 – 486 B.C.)


An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, known as Salah ad-Din or Saladin, was the first sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish ethnicity, Saladin led the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states in the Levant (c. 1138 -- 1193 A.D.)

All sought to unify the Arabian – Persian – Middle East nations.  All wanted people of all religions to live in harmony and respect.  All protected not only the sacred sites of their own religion, but those of the other faiths as well.


Persian Facts

Persians entered Iran about 1,000 BCE.
Persians speak Persian (Farsi), related to Greek and Latin.
There are 120 million Persians, one half live in Iran.
Cyrus, the Achaemenid dynasty, build empire in 550 BCE
Most Persians are Shiite Muslims



Those are lofty goals that to this date have not been achieved.  Oh, several leaders came close, certainly the Persians Cyrus and Darius and Saladin, the Sunni Muslim.  Each consolidated or maintained major empires, and invoked the principles of coexistence, peace, and honor for all.  All three rank among the greatest leaders in the history of mankind.

The Greek versus Persian Empires

Few people, especially from the West, know the nature of the Middle East, the true history, nor the contributions to mankind that were generated in the Middle East.

Once upon a time, we all learned, there was the Greek Empire with adepts like Pythagoras to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle spanning the 600 BCE to 300 BCE era.  In western civilization it is considered the golden age of civilization, the hub of civilization of the world.

 

What we were not taught was there were other civilizations and cultures equally important to the evolution of mankind but located in areas not so well known as the European-based Greek Empire.

The Persian empire under Cyrus the Great was one, and would become the world’s first great superpower equaling Greece and the world in the areas of the culture, religion, science, art and technology.

Cyrus completed the consolidation of the Persian empire in 550 BCE by uniting the sacred sites of Mesopotamia, Egypt’s Nile Valley and India’s Indus Valley.


The Persian empire threatened the very existence of the Greek way of life and would remain the greatest threat to the Greek empire from 550 BCE until 334 BCE when Alexander the Great invaded Persia.

It took three years of grueling warfare and three decisive battles before Alexander smashed the Persian army and captured the Persian empire including the legendary city of Babylon, finally unifying the Greek and Persian competitors.  Yet Alexander died from disease at age 33 and his empire rapidly fell apart.


Conquering the Arab territories

Over the ensuing years many peoples would try to conquer and control the Middle East, especially the Arabian and Persian centers.  This included the Egyptians, Hittites, Philistines, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Turks, Franks and British among others and though the geographic boundaries and empire loyalties changed constantly the same people remained throughout the centuries.

It was not until the twentieth century that geographic stability was realized when the British allowed many nations to choose independence and they did. 

Yet even independence did not bring peace and today war still rages in the Middle East, 2,600 years after the rise of the Persian empire.


Arab Facts

There are 400 million Arabs.
Twenty-two nations are in Arab League (1945).
Arabs speak Arabic also incorporated into Persian.

So why does Melchizedek believe the Crown Prince might just be the one to complete the efforts of so many others before him and finally bring peace, stability, and tolerance again to the holiest lands in the world?


About the Crown Prince

Born August 31, 1985, Mohammed bin Salman is the eldest child of Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and his third wife, Fahda bint Falah bin Sultan bin Hathleen al-Ajmi, the daughter of the head of a powerful Arabian tribe, known as the Al Ajman. Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was the son of Ibn Saud, the founder and the first king of Saudi Arabia. Salman bin Abdulaziz was the governor of Riyadh province for more than 50 years, until stepping down in 2011. During his tenure, he earned a reputation as an efficient, if harsh, administrator.

The Crown Prince and heir to the Saudi Family Monarchy and throne, comes from one of the richest families in the world.  No previous Arab or Persian leader had access to such astonishing wealth estimated at over $1.4 trillion.


He is young, appointed Crown Prince June 21, 2017 at the age of 32, about the same age Jesus was nearing the end of his ministry on earth.  At his age it is conceivable he could reign for many decades.  The health of his father makes it quite possible he could succeed to the throne in the very near future.

Educated in Saudi Arabia with a law degree, rare for Saudi wealthy, he is amazingly beloved by the youth of the Muslim world.  Having the faith and confidence of the younger generation for a monarch is a rare occurrence indeed in the volatile Middle East and future opportunities for youth are crucial to their support.


At the same time, he has opened the door to improved relations with the United States and Israel.


Muslim facts

There are 1.6 billion Muslims, most non-Arab.
90% of Muslims in the world are Sunni.
10% of Muslims are Shiite.
70% of Muslims live outside the Middle East.
Seven million Muslims live in America.
Sunni in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Shiite in Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq.


Islam and the Muslim world

As the birthplace of Islam and holiest of holy sites, Saudi Arabia is the dominant nation for Sunni Muslims which make up 90% of the worldwide Muslim population.  The war-weary Middle East has dreamed of peace for 2,600 years and the Crown Prince has a real opportunity to complete the dreams of Saladin, Cyrus and others.


When Muhammad, the founder and prophet of Islam was alive (around 600 A.D.), the Arabs were tolerant of all religions as Jews, Christians and Arabs coexisted peacefully.  Long before his time dating back to the Persian empire days (500 BCE) when Zoroaster was the inspiration for the main religion, it was the same, a peaceful coexistence between different religions although the Christian and Islam faiths did not appear until centuries later.


Even after the birth of Christianity and Islam, when the legendary Saladin recaptured the Holy City of Jerusalem (1187 A.D.) for the Arab Kingdom, and negotiated a peace treaty with King Richard, Saladin still allowed the prisoners to leave with their belongings and sacred objects for worship.  Saladin was held in the highest prestige by friend and foe, even King Richard of England.


Islam Facts

Muslim believe in Islam.
Muhammad was born in Mecca in 570 AD.
Muslims believe in One God.
Allah - the Creator, the One True God
All-powerful, invisible and unknowable.
They revere the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
the last Prophet.
Muslims believe in all prophets before Muhammad.
and holy books brought by prophets
Psalms, the Torah, and the Gospel.
Believe in Day of Judgement, Angels and Predestination.


Accomplishments by Crown Prince

The Crown Prince is in a great position to use the power of the Saudi monarchy to bring peace between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and bring peace in the entire Middle East thanks to his relationship with the US and Israel.



To show his future vision for the Middle East, in April 2016, Prince Mohammed introduced Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia's vision of the future, which is aimed at making the kingdom the heart of the Arab and Islamic world, an investment powerhouse, and a hub that connects three continents.



The reformative initiative seeks to diversify and privatize the economy, and to make it less reliant on oil. By 2030, the initiative also aims to establish an e-government system.  He also announced a $500 billion plan to create a business and industrial zone extending across its borders into Jordan and Egypt which will focus on industries including energy and water, biotechnology, food, advanced manufacturing and entertainment, and will power itself solely with wind power and solar energy.



The Crown Prince has set in motion the potential for a revival of the incredible Arabian and Persian golden age when the world came to the Middle East to share in the culture, religion, science, art and technology at education centers throughout the land.


That is only the beginning.  He has also called for more entertainment options in the kingdom for both families and youth.

The cabinet passed regulations to reduce the power of the religious police.

An entertainment authority was established in May 2016.

In his attempt to override tradition, he also engaged younger Saudi Muslim scholars who are active on social media and better known among Saudi youth, as opposed to the kingdom's council of senior scholars who set official religious policy and often release religious opinions.



In December 2017, he lifted a 35-year ban on cinemas.

The monarchy ends the world's only ban on female drivers by announcing in September 2017 that they will be able to take the wheel from June 2018.




The decision is part of a vast modernization plan for the country inspired by the prince as he looks to bolster foreign investment.

Last year it was reported that Israel's Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz had invited the Crown Prince to visit Israel and recommended that peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel happen under the kingdom's auspices.



The new crown prince is also driving a far more aggressive foreign policy to counter the influence of their regional rival, Iran.

Prince Mohammed says in March 2018 that if Iran develops a nuclear weapon, Riyadh will do so too.

In an interview with CBS television, he likens the territorial ambitions of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to those of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.


Riyadh holds deep reservations over the 2015 accord aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions and hails President Donald Trump's announcement in May 2018 that the United States is withdrawing from the deal.

In March 2018 the prince embarks on his first foreign tour as heir, visiting Egypt and Britain -- where he lunches with Queen Elizabeth II.

Prince Mohammed then spends two weeks in the US, meeting Trump and other political and economic leaders. He also goes to France and Spain.



Last fall, the 33-year-old Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman announced plans to modernize Saudi Arabia and return the restrictive Muslim country to “what we were before: a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world.” 

Make no mistake, there will be setbacks along the way as a biased media will continue to look for weakness and mistakes in the efforts of the Crown Prince.  The recent death of Jamal Khashoggi, a well-known journalist and critic of the Saudi government is the latest example.

When Turkey accused the Crown Prince of involvement in the murder, it was vehemently denied by the Crown Prince and Royal family.  Yet Turkey, a bitter enemy of the Saudi’s since the time of the ancient empires up through the Ottoman Empire in World War I, fed the liberal press a stream of damning charges against the Saudi’s.

Of course, the press did not discuss the cultural differences between the Muslim Sunni nation and the US system of democracy, nor the fact that China, Russia, and even present-day Turkey all had far worse records in killing citizens and human rights violations than Saudi Arabia.


Only God can pass judgement on what happened, and the same God offers redemption and salvation to all souls.  If there is a chance the Crown Prince can achieve what destiny has to offer him, then the good he does for the world will far eclipse what it took to get there.   

In the end, the strength of Saudi Arabia, the fierce independence of the Arabian, Arab, Persian and Muslim residents, and the sacred sites and Holy Lands they occupy will be available to all people and religions of the world.  They will be the envy of many nations, and after 2,600 years of war they will finally take their rightful place as a leader at the table for the future of all mankind.


Melchizedek believes Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince are up to the challenge and the world can only benefit if they are given the chance to lead.


Who are Muslims?

Muslims submit to the Will of God

Under Islam what is the Muslim character?

A Muslim is truthful, not dishonest

He is humble, not arrogant

He is moderate, not an extremist

He is honest, not corrupt

He is reserved, not garrulous

He is soft-spoken, not boastful

He is loving and solicitous to others, not unmindful of them

He is considerate and compassionate, not harsh

He is polite and helpful, not insulting and disrespectful to people

He is generous and charitable, not selfish and miserly

He is refined and gentle in speech, not prone to swearing or cursing

He is cheerful and generous, not bitter and resentful

He is grateful for what he has, not ungrateful

He is cheerful and pleasant, not irritable and gloomy

He is chaste and pure, not lustful

He is alert, not absent-minded

He is dignified and decent, not graceless

He is sincere and straightforward, not hypocritical

He is optimistic and hopeful, not cynical or pessimistic

He is confident and deep in faith, not doubtful and wavering

He is spiritually oriented, not materialistic

He always has faith in God’s mercy, not losing heart or becoming desperate

He is diligent and vigilant, not negligent to his duties

He is thankful to God and constantly prays to Him, not forgetful of His innumerable blessings

Monday, November 23, 2015

CPT Terrorism Update - Part 5. Articles of Interest to those who want to be informed

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Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Since 1948, almost 10 million Muslims have died at the hands of fellow Muslims
August 24, 2011 6:52 am By Marisol Seibold

Where is the outrage over that? Double standards abound. As the Israeli envoy Dan Gillerman said in 2008: “When Christians kill Muslims, it’s the Crusades. When Jews kill Muslims it’s murder, and when Muslims kill Muslims, it’s like talking about the weather. Nobody really cares about it.”
And as the late Samuel P. Huntington observed: “Wherever one looks along the perimeter of Islam, Muslims have problems living peaceably with their neighbors. The question naturally rises as to whether this pattern of the late 20th century conflict between Muslim and non-Muslim groups is equally true of relations between groups from other civilizations. In fact, it is not. Muslims make up 1/5 of the world’s population but in the 1990s they have been far more involved in intergroup violence than the people of any other civilization….Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards.”
Note also the Ahmadinejadesque (to coin a new term) rhetoric from Turkey’s Erdogan. “Why Golda Meir was right,” by Burak Bekdil for the Hurriyet Daily News, August 23 (thanks to Joshua):

It has been more than two and a half years since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan told to Israeli President Shimon Peres”s face, “You (Jews) know well how to kill.” Prime Minister ErdoÄŸan has also declared more than a few times that the main obstacle to peace in this part of the world is Israel, once calling the Jewish state “a festering boil in the Middle East that spreads hate and enmity.” In this holy month of Ramadan full of blood on Muslim territories, let’s try to identify who are the ones who know well how to kill.
As the Syrian death count clicks every day to come close to 2,000, the Turkish-Kurdish death count does not stop, already over 40,000 since 1984, both adding to the big pool of blood called the Middle East. Only during this Ramadan, the Kurdistan Workers” Party, or PKK”s, death toll has reached 50 in this Muslim Kurds vs. Muslim Turks war. This excludes the PKK casualties in Turkey and in northern Iraq due to Turkish military retaliation since they are seldom accurately reported.

Let’s speak of facts.
Sudan is not in the conventional Middle East, so let’s ignore the genocide there. Let’s ignore, also, the West Pakistani massacres in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) totaling 1.25 million in 1971. Or 200,000 deaths in Algeria in war between Islamists and the government in 1991-2006.

But a simple, strictly Middle East research will give you one million deaths in the all-Muslim Iran-Iraq war; 300,000 Muslim minorities killed by Saddam Hussein; 80,000 Iranians killed during the Islamic revolution; 25,000 deaths in 1970-71, the days of Black September, by the Jordanian government in its fight against the Palestinians; and 20,000 Islamists killed in 1982 by the elder al-Assad in Hama. The World Health Organization’s estimate of Osama bin Laden’s carnage in Iraq was already 150,000 a few years earlier.
In a 2007 research, Gunnar Heinsohn from the University of Bremen and Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, found out that some 11 million Muslims have been violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000, (0.3 percent) died during the six years of Arab war against Israel, or one out of every 315 fatalities. In contrast, over 90 percent who perished were killed by fellow Muslims.

It bears repeating that the Arab nations went to war with Israel with the expectation of annihilating the Jewish state once and for all. But the Arab states kept losing the wars.
According to Mssrs. Heinsohn and Pipes, the grisly inventory finds the total number of deaths in conflicts all over the world since 1950 numbering around 85 million. Of that, the Muslim Arab deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict were at 46,000 including 11,000 during Israel’s war of independence. That makes 0.05 percent of all deaths in all conflicts, or 0.4 percent of all Arab deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In another calculation ignoring “small” massacres like the one that goes on in Syria and other deaths during the Arab Spring, only Saddam’s Iraq, Jordan, the elder al-Assad’s Syria, Iran-Iraq war, the bin Laden campaign in Iraq, the Iranian Islamic revolution and the Turkish-Kurdish conflict caused 1.65 million Muslim deaths by Muslims compared to less than 50,000 deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1950, including fatalities during and after Operation Cast Lead which came after the Heinsohn-Pipes study. For those who don’t have a calculator ready at their desks, allow me to tell: 50,000 is three percent of 1.65 million.
Golda Meir, the fourth prime minister of Israel, or rather the “Mother of Israel,” had a perfectly realistic point when she said that peace in the Middle East would only be possible “when Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”
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CPT Terrorism Update - Part 4. Articles of Interest to those who want to be informed

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Who's killing Muslims?

By Dean Obeidallah
 
Updated 11:33 AM ET, Thu January 15, 2015

Story highlights

Dean Obeidallah: Al Qaeda kills more Muslims than non-Muslims

Al Qaeda and ISIS focused on power, not principles, he says

Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM's weekly program "The Dean Obeidallah Show." He is a columnist for The Daily Beast and editor of the politics blog The Dean's Report. He's also the co-director of the documentary "The Muslims Are Coming!" Follow him on Twitter: @TheDeansreport. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN)We have all seen a great deal of hypocrisy from politicians, pundits and the like. But there's a new king of hypocrisy: al Qaeda.

On Wednesday, al Qaeda released a video featuring Nasr Ibn Ali al-Ansi, one of its top commanders in Yemen, claiming responsibility for the horrific attack last week on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He gave two reasons for the attack.

First, he claimed it was in revenge for Charlie Hebdo's printing of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed. Al-Ansi then went on to state in much greater detail that the attack was in response to France and the West killing Muslims: "We will tell you once again ... stop spilling our blood." And then he urged Muslims across the world to "take vengeance for Muslim blood spilled."

Well, if spilling Muslim blood is the deciding factor for us Muslims to decide who we should take vengeance against, then al-Ansi and others in al Qaeda should immediately go into hiding. Simply put, al Qaeda has been slaughtering Muslims for years. Islamic clerics, doctors, nurses, women, children, etc. -- you name any type of Muslim, and al Qaeda has butchered them.

In fact, a report released in 2009 by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point documented the people killed by al Qaeda between 2004 and 2008. It found that only 12% of the victims of al Qaeda were Westerners. That suggests that al Qaeda has killed seven times as many Muslims as non-Muslims. And these attacks were just the ones for which al Qaeda had publicly claimed responsibility.

And since that report, al Qaeda in Yemen has engaged in even more vicious attacks on Muslims. Keep in mind that 99% of the population of Yemen is Muslim (65% Sunni and 35% Shia) so with a few exceptions, virtually every person the group kills there is a Muslim.

In December 2014, for example, an al Qaeda bomb killed 15 children and 10 adults when the bus they were on was blown up by an al Qaeda car bomb intended for a competing militia leader in the area.

This attack followed another in which al Qaeda sent a suicide bomber into a crowd of protesters in the nation's capital, killing 47 people and injuring 140.

And back in December 2013, al Qaeda launched an attack on a hospital, killing 52 people and wounding 167 with two car bombs before gruesomely shooting patients and doctors in the hospital.

The list goes on, but al Qaeda is not alone in killing Muslims who stand in its way. ISIS has done the same in Iraq and Syria.

A U.N. report released late last year found that ISIS had killed thousands of Muslims -- both Sunni and Shia -- between July and September of that year. This includes the slayings of three nurses in Mosul, Iraq, because they refused to provide medical care to ISIS fighters. ISIS also killed numerous Sunni imams for refusing to swear allegiance to ISIS, and beheaded another Sunni leader for refusing to support the group.

And the reality is that that's truly what al Qaeda and ISIS are about. They are not about the concept of "submit to Islam or die," as some have claimed. It's submit to ISIS/al Qaeda or die. Both organizations clearly don't care how many Muslims they kill. Yet at the same time they will both claim they are carrying out their actions in the name of Islam. In fact, al-Ansi stated in Wednesday's video that the terrorist brothers who carried out the attack on the Charlie Hebdo officers were "two heroes of Islam."

He couldn't be more wrong.

But that isn't to say there weren't heroes of Islam in Paris that day -- it's just that they are two quite different people.

Ahmed Merabet was the French police officer shot in cold blood while lying on the sidewalk by the so-called "heroes of Islam." As his brother stated at a press conference, Merabet was a proud Muslim who gave his life defending French values of "liberty, equality and fraternity."

And there was Lassana Bathily, the Muslim employee at the kosher deli in Paris who reportedly saved the lives of seven Jewish patrons by helping them hide when Amedy Coulibaly entered the store with guns blazing. Bathily's actions exemplified the famous Quranic verse, "Whoever saves one -- it is as if he had saved mankind entirely."

Obviously, calling out the hypocrisy of al Qaeda and ISIS won't change these organizations' goals -- they will continue to invoke Islam as cover for their political ambitions because it helps them entice new recruits and raise funds which are vital for their continued existence.

But maybe if their hypocrisy is consistently laid bare then it might help all understand the true motivation of these terrorist groups and hopefully even give pause to any Muslims thinking of joining their un-Islamic cause. After all, al Qaeda and ISIS aren't interested in upholding the principles of Islam. They are focused only on power, however many Muslim lives they take.
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