Few similarities between GIA & ISIS

As-Salam 'Alaikum everybody,

I'll try to highlight few issues that both ISIS and GIA have/had in common, and I won't be posting long articles that cause people to lose interest quickly, so this will be updated regularly, I hope iA. One last note, I'll try to stay neutral most of the time.

1- Both GIA and ISIS had a total different leadership when they first started, and their leaders were both agreed upon to be good for those in the field, and both appeared when there was a total social support for their effect, and the Jihad was backed by several scholars world-wide.

They had a great social and popular catalyst to incubate them and grant them a sanctuary from spies and Intel services.

Later on, both GIA and ISIS lost most of the scholars that backed them, and interestingly those scholars labeled them later as Khawarij.

[Jihad in Algeria was supported by several Shuyukh from KSA back then, from whom people consider moderate and just to give an example Salman Bin Fahd Al-'Awdah, and for ISIS Sheikh Hamid Al-Ali, and both scholars later on went against the GIA doing and labeled them this or that, Al-'Awdah against GIA and Al-Ali against ISIS. (People may start speak about how Al-'Awdah has changed, well, this happened way before that ever happened)
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[ISIS was based upon the Tawheed Wal-Jihad group set by Abu Mus'aab Az-Zarqawi, which later joined Al-Qaeda in Bilad Ar-Rafidayn, and ending by forming Majliss Shurah Al-Mujahideen, which included several resistance factions from the Mujahideen in Iraq. The assassination of the Majliss leaders was based on Intel info, which later came as coming from the inside of the group, and the same happened to the successors of Abu Mus'ab, Abu 'Omar Al-Baghdadi and Abu Hamza Al-Muhajer, who were sold from the inside again when planning to hold a general meeting about the affairs of the Islamic State that was still taking shape under its new name, The Islamic State, then followed by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, who enforces the split from Al-Qaeda.

The exact same thing happened with GIA, after it broke from the MIA and then it vanished when their Amir was arrested. 6 months later in Jan 93 the group re-formed itself under a new leadership, and the first generations of the leaders were assassinated from within one after the other, replacing them by more extrem ones, and they regraded the MIA as corrupt and conflicts started arising between the two.]

2- Both of them hade witnessed Declaring a Khilafah, attarcting the youth, dominating a parcel of land, and gained strong military power.

[There was no net back then, hence a lot of people think that ISIS are the first to decalre the Khilafah, while others like Taliban and co had decalred only an Imarah, and that's wrong. In 1993, GIA decalred a Khilafah/Caliphate in Algeria, and took it that all groups must pay them allegiance, otherwise they must be toppled and exterminated, and they labeled the other fighting groups as Murtads, such as the MIA, AIS, Talee'ah...etc

They first started by issuing threats to the FIS leadership, and called them heretics, and they threatened AIS and co, and lastly they practiced what they preached by annihilating the other Jihadi squads from the other factions from the South of the Capital, and they annihilated the military bases their too. The known name of the region was the Triangle of Death, that every single Algerian is still afraid of living back there.

The GIA managed to broadcast a TV channel and a Radio channel on the same frequency of the National TV/Radio, and people had joined them either because they were afraid of their brutality, so they needed protection, or because they saw the materialistic gains they had on the ground, or their increasing number that used to cover whole woods and/or mountains. When they raided a village, no sound would be raised but theirs...etc

ISIS did the same, they split from Al-Qaeda, and gradually called the Al-Qaeda factions in Syria as heretics and Murtads, and they threatened them and the other groups, such as Ahrar Ash-Sham and the Islamic Front factions in general, then as the GIA, they saw themselves as the sole protectors of the righteous path of Jihad, hence they asked the groups either to join them, put them their weapons, or prepare to be annihilated, and they practiced that as well, and although they didn't admit the assassination of Abu Khalid As-Suri, all the fingers were pointed towards them, and they didn't refute that, and the latter Sheikh --Abu Khalid-- was sent from Afghanistan precisely to avoid a replica of the Algerian Experience, which was attacked by ISIS scholars and fans, and they claimed they're nothing like the GIA.

ISIS has managed to launch a Radio Station from Mosul as well, they managed to control more land than the GIA ever did, thanks to the international support they've got, and they declared a Khilafah at least 3 times under skimmed names, such the Islamic State in Iraq, then the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levent/Shaam, then just the Islamic State, and all of them meant a Khilafah, and the Amir was always referred to as Ameerul-Mu'mineen, and they made sure that he has to be a Qureshi based on a Fiqhi opinion that the Khalifah must be always a Qureshi, which is why they made Abu Hamzah Al-Muhajir --Egyptian-- to step down and Abu 'Omar Al-Baghdadi Al-Qureshi to take place.]

3- Both accused of being infiltrated.

[ The GIA had been proven to be infiltrated, and even several ex-GIA members admitted that wide openly, when they stated that they'd found the Amirs to be high ranking officers in the DRS (Département du Renseignement et de la Sécurité), and it happened that several GIA members defected to other groups, although the other groups were weak, and they narrated horrific massacres they witnessed, twisted ideology they were taught, and most of them pleaded to fight them until their last day regarding them as Khawarij, and several were killed fighting their ex-comrades in the GIA.

Several Algerian Army officers defected too and sought asylum abroad taking with them a lot of proofs and written orders of how the DRS manipulated the GIA, and amongst them Al-Habib Bin Swaydiyyah, the Author of the Dirty War, which has horrific stories about the massacres committed by the Intel Services and/or the GIA. The agent Yussuf-Joseph had defected to the UK and narrated the same thing, and the same thing is found on the Free Officers website anp.org, the same is narrated by the defected Diplomat Mohamed Larbi Zaytout, Ahmed Chouchan and co...etc

ISIS has been accused of being infiltrated as well, after thousands of their fighters were released by the Syrian and Iraqi regime right after the turmoil got heat in those lands, and it was even suggested that it was known to those governments that such an ideology cannot co-exist with others, so they released them to manipulate them indirectly.

It is also mentioned that some of the top leaders of ISIS are ex-Ba'athists, and the right hand of Saddam Hussein 'Ali 'Izzat Ad-Douri who had formed the Naqshabandi Army had praised the ISIS role in the freedom of Iraq, and he even praised the declaration of the Khilafah, though clashes might have been reported later between the 2 groups.]

4- Both got out of control of the regimes supposedly they were either infiltrated or directly/indirectly manipulated.

[Regardless of how much and whether they were/are infiltrated, the regimes in Algeria/Syria/Iraq had managed to manipulate them and make the other fighting factions to lose hundreds of fighters without the National Armies to move a single finger; however, instilling extreme ideologies that burn the green and the yellow have always backfired on the intigators --regimes.

The Algerian regime enjoyed how the GIA used to butcher babies and women, and they promoted that as the wrong version of Islam, and that Islam must remain within the Masjid only and never to be involved in the politics. After the Amirs of GIA started getting replaced like you replace your socks, they lost the connection, and the attacks touched the regimes' class families, which forced the government to seek a bail out of the situation and the convention of Truce came by.

ISIS fighters might be freed to cause chaos through out the rest of the fighting groups, but it was the catalyst for any foreigner dreaming of the Khilafah and establishing the Jihad, so again, it is impossible to coordinate between Arabs, Russians, English, Chinese and the other people in a single language, let alone to instantly issue orders that must be applied on the fly and to get that across everybody's knowledge, who's under the ISIS umbrella, and it looks like the table has turned now against Bashar's army and the same happened in Iraq, so after it was an in-fighting, it has become a fight with everybody else who's not us, and the regimes are seeking bail out as well, thus they asked the US, UK, France, Canada, the Gulf countries and others to help.]

5- Both groups had sincere guys.

[It's so sad, that not everybody who's/d affiliated with those groups are extreme or not sincere, the problem is that lots of them are, yet they choose either to hide their heads in the sand and mind their own business while trying to stay away from the in-fighting, others defected, others do want to leave the whole thing, but it's a dead-end choice and it doesn't have a come back point, others were made to believe they're fighting PKK or Nusayris or whatever...etc

The GIA had the same phenomenon, and people defected from them, others sought asylum abroad, others fought them until they died and the same old story.]

6- Making people to turn against them.

[Surely the victory comes only from Allah SWT, but Allah SWT makes Asbab for that to happen, and besides Du'a and good Deeds, Allah made the I3dad/Preparation and the Military Arsenal part of it as well, and the logistics support that comes from the local community is one main vein for any similar group to succeed, and losing that vein is like losing an artery for a human being.

In Algeria, they created what was known by the Patriots, and they were civilians fighting furiously for the government, because the GIA killed their families or kidnapped their women.

In Iraq, they created the Sahawats from amongst the Sunnis, and even from ex-ISI.

The above phenomenon is not always motivated by money, rather mostly it's motivated by transgression, and in the account of ISI, there are dozens of letters sent from Ansar As-Sunnah to Afghanistan seeking OBL to intervene and stop their transgressions, and they're dated to back 2008/2009 and they're still found on Arabic Forums such as Ana Al-Moslem and the like, and there are other letters from Shar'i Judges who saw the abuse of power and injustice and they were complaining about that.]

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I'll try to write about more points later in-sha'a Allah when I have time, but for now I have to add this:

I don't believe that IS/ISIS is a pure creation of the Mossad/FBI/whatever as some promote, but I don't expel the idea of being infiltrated, and I recall the repented agent who was sent by the Jordanian Intel service back when it was only Jabhat An-Nusrah, and he reached a leadership position and announced his repentence. When you take everyone from everywhere from the globe than make sure that you have spies and agents %100, whether they managed to hold top positions or not, that would be to Allah to judge, Wallahu A'lam.

Did ISIS mess with the whole Jihad in the region? Yes, and in a very very bad way, and they caused the death of the fines youth from the other groups.

Is ISIS as bad/evil as GIA? No, not yet, and I hope it will never be. GIA used to rape women, because they're considered wives of Apostates, which was pretty much anyone not from them including the other fighting Groups, who chose to fight the Army and not the people.

Will it escalate? I believe so, stress causes a worse intense one full of anger and desire for revenge, and the whole cycle might turn into avenging each others' casualties and deaths and the Jihad would never be mentioned again.

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It is purely a Fitnah, and if some of the knowledgeable Sahabah chose to break their swords and stay away from the whole thing, it would be better for our laymen to stay still and stay away from what they have no idea about.

This needs to be proof-read, so ignore any mistakes, dropped words, typos...etc If a mod notices something that can be fixed, then please feel free to fix it.

Source:
http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f18/few-observations-about-isis-is-and-gia-71224/