{"id":4797,"date":"2014-07-02T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2014-07-02T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T18:15:12","slug":"middle-east-islamic-state-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4797","title":{"rendered":"MIDDLE EAST: &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Worthy News<\/a>, June 30, 2014<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declared a new Islamic Caliphate in the areas it now occupies, and has renamed itself as simply &#8220;Islamic State,&#8221; as it ushers in a new era of international jihad. The &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; has called on al-Qaeda and other Sunni jihadist groups operating in the region to immediately pledge their allegiance.<\/p>\n<p>The Caliphate would be established in all areas the &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; controls in Iraq and Syria. It announced that its leader, [who calls himself] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, would be the caliph or head of state. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was released in 2009 from a US detention center in Iraq. The US has a $10 million bounty on his head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time has come for the Ummah [nation] of Mohammed (peace be upon him) to wake up from its sleep, remove the garments of dishonor, and shake off the dust of humiliation and disgrace,&#8221; Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said in an audio release.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthynews.com\/16615-islamic-state-rises-in-the-middle-east\">Read complete article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/06\/30\/what-is-a-caliphate-meaning_n_5543538.html\">What Is a Caliphate?<\/a> (Huffington Post) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incontextministries.org\/images\/20facts.pdf\">20 facts about what&#8217;s happening in Iraq<\/a> (INContext). If you have time, <a href=\"http:\/\/hudson.org\/events\/1177-call-for-transnational-jihad-book-discussion-with-arif-jamal62014#popupModal\">watch or listen to a talk from Arif Jamal<\/a>, author of Call for Transnational Jihad (Hudson Institute).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Worthy News, June 30, 2014 On the first day of Ramadan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declared a new Islamic Caliphate in the areas it now occupies, and has renamed itself as simply &#8220;Islamic State,&#8221; as it ushers in a new era of international jihad. The &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; has called on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MIDDLE EAST: &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; Rises<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}