ISIS's View Of Christians Echoes That Of Official Saudi Fatwas

The April 19 ISIS video showing the killing of 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya by the Islamic State (ISIS) received extensive international coverage. Media outlets showed edited portions of the killings or screenshots of the now-familiar images of bound men in orange jumpsuits with masked jihadists ready to kill.
 
Strangely enough, there was very little press coverage on the bulk of the 29-minute video – 24 minutes of it – that focused not on the killings themselves but on ISIS's view of Christianity and Christians and how they should be treated. While their actions may be different, an analysis of the content of this video and an analysis of fatwas featured on the Saudi government's official website government show considerable overlap in views on Christians and how they should be treated.

The video, titled "Until There Came to Them Clear Evidence" (taken from Surat Al-Bayyinah, 98:1), the video opens with the traditional polemical view of Christianity buttressed by Koranic quotes: a restating of strict monotheism, how the faith and practice of Christians are lacking, how they corrupted the Gospel (the Injil) delivered to the "last prophet to come from the children of Israel" Isa Ibn Maryam (Jesus the Son of Mary), how Christ was not really crucified but a substitute was crucified in his place, and how Christians are "mushrikeen" who "associate partners with God."

Using extensive footage from movies ("Kingdom of Heaven" and "The Passion of the Christ"), the video then relates a skewed and hostile version of Christian history and denominations: the Roman Catholic Church "established in the 8th century," the Coptic Orthodox Church, with its Ethiopian and Armenian subsets, the Eastern Orthodox Church in Greece and Russia, and "the Protestant Church." Christians (Al-Nasara) are described as "a nation that deviated from the benevolent religion of monotheism." The Koran, the hadith, and Islamic consensus are all marshalled to prove this disbelief.

Following this six-minute introduction, the video introduces its "star" Abu Malik Anas Al-Nashwan (real name Abu Malik Al-Tamimi Al-Najdi), a senior ISIS Sharia official and Saudi who graduated from Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh with the highest marks. Al-Tamimi was an enthusiastic member of the Saudi religious police who was being groomed for a position in the Saudi Ministry of Justice before leaving the country in 2009 for Afghanistan, where he fought in Kunar and Nuristan and was lightly wounded. He eventually moved to Syria, where he swore allegiance to ISIS. Supposedly he was No. 3 on Saudi Arabia's most wanted list in 2011.


http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8592.htm

Plenty more to read on the link.
This is and has been my issue all along, that Wahhabism is a barbaric form of Islam and the Saudi's are using their immense wealth to export Wahhabism to the world and why we are seeing and ever increasing growth in support for salafism among Muslims. This truly is a grave concern, that effects non-Muslims and Muslims alike. Its time the world started to wake up to the disease of Wahhabism, that is spreading through the world, promoting the most intolerant backward hateful views.

Sounds like an interesting new take on the history of Christianity. One thing is for certain, the Pauline Bible is the last history of Jesus' life I would believe.

No doubt Wahhabism is being used by the Sunni off-shoot, ISIS, to create shock-moments for western media consumption.