At last, somebody that will actually fight the Islamic State:
There is a war of fatwas and some serious cyber rattling back and forth between the Muslim Brotherhood on the one hand and the organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) on the other hand. The fatwa wars erupted after Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, president of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars, the spiritual father of the Muslim Brotherhood, denounced the legitimacy for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as Caliph of the Muslim world. In turn, the ISIS denounced the Muslim Brotherhood and in addition Hamas as “apostates” and “followers of witchcraft theology”.
Significant or no? My guess is probably not. This is not hatred, but a jealous rivalry; ISIS and the MB and al Qaeda and the Iranian mullahs are all vying with each other for the same basic thing: recognition as the undisputed kings of the Muslim world, after which they will seek domination of the entire planet. Kind of like primary/caucus season precedes the general election campaign. It's the only solace we have left in the War Against Islamic Fundamentalism, or World War IV, as I think of it.
But the "primaries" in this "campaign" are waged by who can kill the most "infidels," who can do the largest amount of and most spectacular damage to Israel, Europe, and the United States. They all, in short, hate our guts with a fiery, psychopathic passion far more than they do and ever will each other. And their war against us exists now and after a global "caliph" finally emerges. So from our standpoint, it doesn't make any difference who calls themselves Allah's Grand Poobah, or how much they fatwa each other over it, because we're never going to leave any of their crosshairs.
FWIW, Walid Shoebat believes the winner of the Global Caliphate contest will be right where it left off over ninety years ago: Turkey. Which certainly suggests ISIS's target list after they obliterate half a dozen American cities.
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