This is a repost of an article that first appeared on the EDL website earlier this year. It’s being reposted because that site is no longer accessible and once again, while hatefully burning the US flag, “Old Glory”: a symbol of freedom on a day of extraordinary pain for the whole free world and especially our American cousins, the Jihadi enemy who live amongst us flew their seditious black flag of Jihad.

This flag is a revolting symbol, completely analogous to the Nazi Swastika: it represents an ideology that has enslaved or murdered hundreds of millions during its 1400 year reign of terror. To allow it to be flown in London is a mark of our extraordinary tolerance, but to fly it in our faces is an act of unprecedented arrogance. Jihadis do not deserve this tolerance from us: when they are in power these monsters show the infidels no such mercy.

For our political rulers and law-keepers to not recognise this flag as a seditious hate symbol speaks to their eternal shame and ignorance. The EDL will continue to shout about this until they imprison every last one of us.

Note: The Editorial team is working on a report about yesterday’s events in London: we like to check our facts before rushing to press.

Repost from March 2011:

Poppy Burning Is The Least Of It: What Is That Black Flag They Were Waving?

 

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Yesterday the token jihadists arrested by the police on 11/11/2010 after a Muslim protest disrespected war heroes everywhere with a vile act of sedition, received the full force of British law. One was fined a paltry £50 and the other acquitted.

Emdadur Choudhury, 26 – on £800-a-month benefits – could have been fined £1,000 for the insult to our war dead and sneered: “It’s only £10 more than a parking ticket.”
Here is a simple suggestion: anyone who has fallen on hard times and needs state benefits must sign a short contract:

“I agree not to engage in acts, public or private, demanding for the replacement of British society and customs with a barbaric, 7th century political ideology masquerading as a 21st century religion”

£50 as a fine is shameful, £800 per month in state benefits while trying to destroy the state is revolting.

But while everyone was looking at the flames springing from the burning poppy on the ground: Tommy Robinson of the EDL went after the other symbol of the day: the black battle flag of jihad. Here is a short piece on what this flag really means, passed on from correspondence with a highly informed, military source of intelligence on jihad. The “shahada” is the arabic text written on the black and white flags of Islam (and also on the Saudi state flag) which is the words Muslims say to submit to Islam.

You’ll never see anything as smart as this in our media: they don’t have the brains to write it, and they wouldn’t have the balls to print it if it landed on their desks in a box with a pretty pink bow. Only the EDL will tell it like it is, and Tommy Robinson is still facing charges for trying to tear down this battle flag on the streets of London [Update: he's in prison for breach of bail conditions!].

The flag of the caliphate takes two forms: The white with the shahada in black, and the black with the shahada in white. The black one, with the shahada in white, is the flag of war. In a “flag protocol” sense, if we can invoke that concept here, it corresponds to the battle ensign hoisted on a ship of war. The white one, with the shahada in black, is a “flag of state.” a ruler would fly it over his seat of government, as the us flies the national ensign over the capitol building in dc. (note: Do a search on “khilafah flags” to find more.)

For the last decade, we in the west have been largely thinking of the black flag as the flag of jihad — with a mental image of jihad as “blowing up buildings” or airplanes or people or whatever. Nihilistic, random attacks, guerrilla methodology — that’s how they appear to our minds and the categories we think in. But we should really be thinking of it as the black battle flag of the caliphate, because that’s how the most organized islamist radicals invoke it. The origin of the twin flags goes back to the demise of the ottoman caliphate and the groups that arose in the 1920s with the objective of restoring it. The strategic objective of groups like the muslim brotherhood has always been the realization of a reestablished caliphate. I put it in those terms — less active images — because the methodology of islamists is principally to induce the outcomes they seek, through wearing down their perceived enemies, rather than marshalling force and waging decisive battle in the western manner.

This year is the one in which we are seeing the possibility of caliphate strategists being matched up with armed nation-states across the islamic world. The “black flag of jihad” is today much closer to being the “battle flag of the caliphate” than it was on 9/11. If you look at videos of islamist demonstrations in france and the uk, you see the flags of the caliphate — both black and white — being waved all over the crowds as they call for sharia.

Jihad will blow us up if it has to, but I think we’re in the middle of a transition from 9/11-type jihad to caliphate-oriented jihad. The blowing s*** up (BSU, in military targeting terminology) won’t stop, but we have to get our minds around the existence of the more coherent objective. It’s not just inchoate “anger at the west.” There are competing aspirants to reestablish the caliphate — Erdogan [Turkey] has his own concept in which turkey has the lead role, the shias in the qom fever swamp [Iran] have theirs — but I suspect what we’ll see in the Arab world in the coming weeks and months are attempts to unify muslim Arabs behind an idea centering on those twin flags.

This is something I think Glenn Beck has picked up on, but he requires significant correction (and some of his theories are just off the wall). He wants to tie caliphate islamism to international socialism, which is not useful for about 98% of our analytical purposes. The ways caliphate islamism deviates from international socialism (in methodology in particular) are, in many ways, more important. But that said, westerners have to start understanding that the siren call of caliphate islamism is not nihilistic for its adherents. That means they will strategize, fight, and respond differently from what they would do if all they wanted was more bsu.

I think it’s important for western analysts to start recognizing caliphate islamism and to develop a common way of discussing it. We’ve been focused on the 9/11 and Taliban models, but they don’t help us understand the stakes in the Arab world in 2011

 

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