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The Islamic State and IslamBy: Raymond Ibrahim10/21/2014 06:00 AMOriginally published by PJ Media. What relationship does the Islamic State have to Islam?“Absolutely nothing†is the answer almost every Western politician gives. For example, U.S. President Obama adamantly stated in a televised speech that the Islamic State “is not Islamic.†This begs the question: How does one determine what is—and is not—Islamic? The traditional answer, the Islamic answer, has been as follows: What do the core texts and scriptures of Islam say about the thing in question, call it “X� Does the Koran, believed by Muslims to contain the literal commands of Allah, call for or justify X? Do the hadith and sira texts—which purport to record the sayings and deeds of Allah’s prophet, whom the Koran (e.g., 33:21) exhorts Muslims to emulate in all ways—call for or justify X?
What relationship does the Islamic State have to Islam?