Thereafter the Islamic State surrounded their villages and ordered them to hand over the perpetuators of the crimes against Islam and the Muslims. The majority of their clans refused to comply, and thus fell into the classification of tawā’if mumtani’ah, by shielding the traitors.
They were then given a 24-hour notice allowing all individuals not involved in the transgression to evacuate their villages. All those able-bodied men remaining would be treated in accordance with the Sharī’ah. Alhamdulillāh, some of their related clans – who did not partake in the treachery – contacted the Islamic State prior to the campaign and disassociated themselves from the treacherous ones.
Upon entering the Shu’aytāt villages, the soldiers of the Islamic State found men hateful of the Sharī’ah, drowning in fāhishah, alcoholism, and drugs, some of them married to more than four wives!
They had hidden away much of the heavy weaponry that they were told to hand over in their initial covenant with the Islamic State. This same weaponry was used in their aggression, only to end up as ghanīmah for the Islamic State.
The article then goes on to describe a "hadith" that sets for the appropriate punishment and says:
This hadīth shows the severity of the prophetic punishment against the treacherous, false claimants of Islam. The wicked deeds of Shu’aytāt were similar to those mentioned in the hadīth, except that the Shu’aytāt clans decided to arrogantly and collectively shield the perpetrators and thereby share the blame for treachery and murder.
In another section, the magazine provides the reasoning behind its overall actions:
the Islamic State has long maintained an initiative that sees it waging its jihād alongside a da’wah campaign that actively tends to the needs of its people. It fights to defend the Muslims, liberate their lands, and bring an end to the tawāghīt, while simultaneously seeking to guide and nurture those under its authority and ensure that both their religious and social needs are met.
For what good is there in liberating a city only to leave its inhabitants steeped in misguidance and misery, suffering from ignorance and disunity, and disconnected from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wasallam). As such, the Islamic State actively works to educate its citizens, preach to and admonish them, enforce their strict adherence to Islamic obligations, judge their disputes, implement the shar’ī hudūd, eradicate all traces of shirk and heresy, incite the people to jihād and call them to unite behind the Khalīfah, Ibrāhīm Ibn ‘Awwād Al-Husaynī Al-Qurashī.
The issue devotes a lot of space to Obama, who it claims is continuing the policies of GW Bush:
[T]here is no difference between his partisan politics and that of his predecessor – Bush – apart from cosmetic, superficial touches...Obama now blindly follows the example of “the war president” Bush. He will continue to strengthen the ancient and historical enemy of the West – Persia/Iran.
There is no mention of attacks on America. It's overall prediction, however, is:
And with Allah’s permission, Obama will continue to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, Bush, only to become the worst heir for the worst testator, and ultimately bring about the complete collapse of the modern American empire.
