ISIS puts bull's-eye on other Muslims

'They're trying to target the social fabric and trying to create a sectarian conflict'

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Shiite Iran appears to be the ultimate target of the ISIS effort to create a Sunni caliphate, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
ISIS, which now calls itself the Islamic State, is enlisting help from Sunni jihadist fighters from neighboring Pakistan’s predominantly Sunni Balush province to step up attacks.
In recent months, Sunni fighters have ambushed Iranian border guards and committed atrocities against hundreds of Shiites, as documented by Human Rights Watch.
As a result, ISIS is turning its conquests into a full-fledged Sunni-Shiite conflict.
The prospect of Iran being in the bulls-eye of ISIS was underscored by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a rare public statement following a recent attempt on his life by the U.S.-led, anti-ISIS coalition.
As WND recently reported, Baghdadi outlined his priorities of first attacking Shiites then Saudi Arabia’s Mecca and Medina, two of Islam’s most revered holy places, and Shiites in Yemen. Following that, he intends to target the Saudi royal family and, only then, the Western “crusaders.”
His emphasis clearly is giving priority to eliminating Shiites wherever they may be. In the lands he’s already conquered in portions of Syria and Iraq, Baghdadi’s fighters have summarily killed all Shiites, often not even giving them a chance to “convert” or pay a tax, as he’s doing with Christians.

 
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ISIS looks upon the Shiites as infidels and has killed thousands.
Today, Sunni Muslims around the world comprise 80 percent of the 1.6 billion Muslims. By contrast, Shiites comprise only 15 percent of all Muslims, with a majority in Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Bahrain.
Shiites are a minority in all of the other Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia. There, they happen to occupy the Eastern Province district of al-Ahsa, where much of the Saudi oil production takes place.
Baghdadi has a history of attacking locations where there is major oil production and then turning around and selling oil to keep his jihadist campaign running. In the Saudi kingdom, he could not only kill Shiites but also take over the oil wells, which would give him virtual control over world oil production and distribution.
Attacks on Saudi Shiites apparently already have begun. The Saudi military is on high alert after an ISIS attack Nov. 3 on Shiite civilians inside the kingdom, the first since 2006.
“Islamic State and al-Qaida are doing their best to carry out terrorist acts or crimes inside Saudi Arabia,” Maj. Gen. Mansour Turki, security spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, told Reuters.
“They are trying to target the social fabric and trying to create a sectarian conflict inside the country,” Turki said.
In creating his caliphate to include portions of Syria and Iraq, Baghdadi has extended his conquests into Iraq’s Diyali province, which is only a few miles from Iran.
For that reason, Iran for some time has been sending troops from its Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps al-Quds section to bolster the Shiite government of former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, who now is Iraqi vice president.
The Iraqi government is attempting to keep the three major representations in the government – Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds – intact, with central authority remaining in Baghdad.
As Baghdadi’s young jihadist fighters have approached Iran from the West, Sunni radials from Pakistan are approaching Iran from the east through their portion of Baluchistan, which overlaps from western Pakistan into eastern Iran.
Various Sunni clerics in Islamabad, including the Pakistani Taliban, have sworn allegiance to ISIS and Baghdadi.
As with ISIS, Pakistani militants follow an extreme form of Sunni Wahhabism that regards Shiite Muslims as apostates.
F. Michael Maloof, senior staff writer for WND/ G2Bulletin, is a former security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He can be contacted at mmaloof@wnd.com.
For the rest of this report please go to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

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