Salafist Jihadism is a violent radical movement among Muslims
7th & 8th Kings of John are counted as 1 – As both are Muslim!
Damascus was capital of the Umayyad Caliphate 660 to 750 A.D.
Salafism Is The Fastest Growing Islamic Movement On The Planet
Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip won’t have a long lasting Truce
Until a hudna (truce) is declared after Israel is driven into the Negev
SEE Diagram And Comments On The Above On Prophecy Update 320
My guess is that the Islam-Israel war will start between 2014 & 2016!
November 13, 2012
http://www.tribulationperiod,com/
Salafist jihadism is a jihadist movement among Salafi Muslims. The term was coined by scholar Gilles Kepel to describe Salafi who became interested in violent jihad during the mid-1990s. Practitioners are often referred to as Salafi jihadis or Salafi jihadists.
Salafism goes all the way back to the Umayyad Caliphate (650 to 750 A.D), and its capital after 660 A.D. was Damascus in Syria. It will be resurrected from the ashes of the dead Umayyad Caliphate in Greater Syria and its Caliph will be the Muslim Antichrist, their Mahdi. The Umayyad Caliphate was the largest of the Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian (Macedonian), and Roman Empires which preceded it. The 8th king (caliph) is of the 7, because he, like the 1st, is of the Islamic faith.
Revelation 17:9-13,17 – And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. [10] And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. [11] And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. [12] And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
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The Umayyad Caliphate is the sixth largest empire in history. It was ruled by the Umayyad Dynasty (Banu Umayyah): The name of this dynasty comes from Umayya ibn Abd Shams, the great-grandfather of the first Umayyad caliph. It was the first dynasty of the Muslim Caliphate. Damascus was the capital 660–750.
According to tradition, the Umayyad family (also known as the Banu Abd-Shams) and the Islamic Prophet Muhammad both have a common ancestor, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai. Muhammad descended from Abd Munaf via his son Hashim, the Umayyads descended from Abd Munaf via a different son, Abd-Shams. The two families are therefore considered to be different clans (those of Hashim and of Umayya, respectively) of the same tribe (that of the Quraish).
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A Salafi is a Muslim who emphasises the Salaf (“predecessors” or “ancestors”), the earliest Muslims, as model examples of Islamic practice. The term has been in use since the Middle Ages but today refers especially to a follower of a modern Sunni Islamic movement known as Salafiyyah or Salafism, which is related to or includes Wahhabism (a name which some of its proponents consider derogatory, preferring the term Salafism), so that the two terms are often viewed as synonymous.[2] Salafism has become associated with literalist, strict and puritanical approaches to Islam and, in the West, with the Salafi Jihadis who espouse violent jihad against civilians as a legitimate expression of Islam.[3] It has been noted that the Western association of Salafi ideology with violence stems from writings done “through the prism of security studies” that were published in the late 20th century, having persisted well into contemporary literature. More recent attempts have been made by academics and scholars who challenge these major assumptions. Academics and historians use the term to denote “a school of thought which surfaced in the second half of the 19th century as a reaction to the spread of European ideas,” and “sought to expose the roots of modernity within Muslim civilization.”
Just who or what groups and movements qualify as Salafi remains in dispute. In the Arab world, and possibly even more so now by Muslims in the West, it is usually secondary to the more common term Ahl-as-Sunnah (i.e., “People of the Sunnah”) while the term Ahl al-Hadith (The People of the Tradition) is more often used in the Indian subcontinent to identify adherents of Salafi ideology, a term that is used in the Middle-East more often to indicate scholars and students of Hadith. All are considered to bear the same or similar connotation and have been used interchangeably by Muslim scholars throughout the ages, Ahl al-Hadeeth possibly being the oldest recorded term for these earliest adherents[6] while Ahl as-Sunnah is overwhelmingly used by Muslim scholars, including Salafis as well as others, such as the Ash’ari sect, leading to a narrower use of the term “Salafi”. The Muslim Brotherhood includes the term in the “About Us” section of its website[8] while others exclude that organisation in the belief that the group commits religious innovations. Other self-described contemporary salafis may define themselves as Muslims who follow “literal, traditional … injunctions of the sacred texts” rather than the “somewhat freewheeling interpretation” of earlier salafis. These look to Ibn Taymiyyah, not the 19th century figures of Muhammad Abduh, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, and Rashid Rida.
According to the 2010 German domestic intelligence service annual report, Salafism is the fastest growing Islamic movement in the world.
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Salafists keep up missile fire after most Palestinian Gaza groups buy a truce
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 12, 2012, 10:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Most Palestinians organizations led by Hamas convened in Gaza City Monday night, Nov. 12, to approve the cessation of their three-day rocket offensive against Israel brokered by Egypt. The meeting was shunned by the Salafists, who instead signaled their repudiation of a truce by firing 5 heavy Grad rockets against the Israeli towns of Netivot, Beersheba and Ofakim.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that the Salafist extremists, some affiliated with al Qaeda, were behind most of the missile attacks during Monday, topping up the 300 assorted rockets fired against the southern Israeli population from Saturday.
Yet Israel, Egypt and even Hamas continued to delude themselves that an effective ceasefire was feasible.
So while, the IDF refrained from striking the rocket teams during the day in expectation of a ceasefire – and instead scattered leaflets reminding Gazans to stay 300 meters back from the Israeli border fence – the Salafists were busier than ever taking delivery of a fresh load of Grad rockets through the smuggling tunnels from Sinai to sustain their continuous barrage against Israel.
The eastgernmost point of those tunnels, the inersection of the Israeli, Egyptian and the Gaza Strip borders, is just out of reach of the Israeli army. For a strike to effectively stop the flow of smuggled hardware, Israel would have to hit the key section which runs through Egyptian territory.
Hamas can’t reach those tunnels either, because the Salafist groups which control the southern section of the Gaza Strip bar their access.
But the Jihad Islam is a different matter. This Iranian proxy does play ball with the Salafists and in fact shares with them some of its own Grad supplies. The Jihad thus plays both sides against the middle – cooperating with Hamas and Egypt to enforce a ceasefire, on the one hand, and helping the Salafists scupper it, with the other.
Gaza’s Palestinian terrorist organizations, including the ruling Hamas, have never upheld any truce for long, only reducing rocket fire to a trickle for long enough to stall a major Israeli attack, and reviving it full blast after a few weeks, The difference this time is that Jihad Islami holds the key to the truce. If Tehran, Damascus and Hizballah wanted a ceasefire to hold up, they would order Jihad to withhold its assistance from the Salafists. But this has not happened.
The view in the high IDF command, which handed its recommendations to the defense minister and prime minister Monday, is that even if the Salafists play along with the Egyptian truce bid for a couple of days to keep the Israeli military off their backs, when things quiet down, they will go back to shooting rockets.
Their purpose is to keep Israel on the hop and its Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on the horns of a dilemma.
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