Liputan6.com, Jakarta The Islamic State group, popularly known as ISIS, has made a shocking announcement through its online magazine ‘Dabiq’, declaring war on Shia Muslims.
The 56 pages latest edition is filled with words and images of justification to the wipeout of Shia Muslims within the Middle East.
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“The magazine spends so much time justifying the killing of innocent Shiites that it suggests that ISIL is frustrated that too few Sunnis favor sectarian massacres,” Ryan Mauro, a national security analyst for the Clarion Project said as cited in Fox News.
“ISIS is making the argument because it sees a problem it needs to address,” he explained.
Citing from Dailymail.co.uk, the 13th issue of ISIS online publication ‘Dabiq’ is entitled: ‘The Rafidah: from Ibn Saba to the Dajjal’, calling for “a concerted effort to wipe out…the followers of deviant desires”.
In spite of the fact that this is not the first time the terrorist network has signaled for a feud with fellow Muslims, its decision to dedicate the latest issue to such declaration against Shia Muslims has inevitably legitimized its inherent ambition.
"Even though the Americans are also a major enemy, the Rafidah are more severely dangerous and more murderous...than the Americans," as it says in one of the magazine’s pages.
‘They took the Americans as allies, supported them, stood in their ranks in the face of the mujahidin [jihadists], and sacrificed and continue to sacrifice for the Americans everything precious so as to end jihad and the mujahidin,’ it adds.
According to RussiaToday, US- Based monitoring group has previously detected through a 13-minute audio recording back in May 2015 that “the Saudi Division of the Islamic State jihadist group has called on jihadist supporters to clear the Arabian Peninsula of Shia Muslims”.
