Thus, even if you were to stop fighting us, your best-case scenario in a state of war would be that we would suspend our attacks against you – if we deemed it necessary – in order to focus on the closer and more immediate threats, before eventually resuming our campaigns against you. Apart from the option of a temporary truce, this is the only likely scenario that would bring you fleeting respite from our attacks. So in the end, you cannot bring an indefinite halt to our war against you. At most, you could only delay it temporarily.
.... The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. Even if you were to pay jizyah and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you. No doubt, we would stop fighting you then as we would stop fighting any disbelievers who enter into a covenant with us, but we would not stop hating you.
I'm a little confused here. First it says any truce would be temporary, the fighting will resume at some point. But it also says if disbelievers accept Islam and pay a tax, they can live in peace (although humiliated.) Does the truce last until Armageddon, the eventual battle to take place at Dabiq, or sometime sooner, to be arbitrarily decided by the Caliph or the group's leaders at the time?
I think at one point it mixes up liberal and conservative media. It refers to the liberal media as the media segment that has refused to acknowledge there is a method behind ISIS' madness:
The gist of the matter is that there is indeed a rhyme to our terrorism, warfare, ruthlessness, and brutality. As much as some liberal journalist would like you to believe that we do what we do because we’re simply monsters with no logic behind our course of action, at we continue to wage – and escalate – a calculated war that the West thought it had ended several years ago. We continue dragging you further and further into a swamp you thought you’d already escaped only to realize that you’re stuck even deeper within its murky waters....
The liberal media has gone out of its way to examine ISIS methodology and point out that everything they do is rooted in their view of the Koran or other religious texts or Sharia law. The liberal media has pointed out they view themselves not just as a terrorist group but as a state intent on governing and establishing Sharia law. It's the right wing media that has labeled them insane, barbaric monsters who behead and kill for no reason.
Moving on, on page 26, there is a Words of Advice column by an American convert to ISIS to Christians who have accepted Islam. The writer instructs on lone wolf attacks at home:
As for a final word of advice to you regarding your operation, do not make intricate plans, but instead, keep it simple and effective.
If you can obtain a weapon, do so and use it, as soon as possible and in a place that will cause the most damage and panic, bringing death and injury to the enemy of Allah, the disbelievers. Just as they terrify the Muslims in the lands of Islam, so should you terrify the disbelievers in their homelands. But unlike them, your terror shall be just, an equitable response to their crimes against Islam and the Muslim nation
On page 64, there is an interview with "one of many" ISIS fighters from Trinidad and Tobago. (Reportedly, there are 100 or more citizens of Trinidad and Tobago who have gone to Syria and joined ISIS. But there seems to be more concern about those who are planning attacks at home.) The interviewee says he is a sniper, and he has a message for Muslims in his home country:
I also say to you, my brothers, that you now have a golden opportunity to do something that many of us here wish we could do right now. You have the ability to terrify the disbelievers in their own homes and make their streets run with their blood. Where is your jealousy for the religion? They are bombing your brothers and sisters day and night in the land where Allah’s law is supreme. It is an obligation upon you to act and force them to think thrice before bombing the Muslims. Therefore, terrorize the disbelievers and make them feel fear everywhere, even in their own bedrooms. Due to their mere disbelief, their blood by default is lawful to spill.
Attack the interests of the Crusader coalition near you, including their embassies, businesses, and “civilians.” Burn down their government institutions just as they try to bomb our buildings where Allah’s law is upheld. Follow the example of the lions in France and Belgium, the example of the blessed couple in California, and the examples of the knights in Orlando and Nice. If you do so then your reward is with Allah and you will have no regrets when you meet Him.
On page 40, there's a summary of ISIS operations to date, which it says is not all of them, including France, Belgium and Orlando. It refers to the Orlando shooter as a "soldier of the Caliphate." It doesn't mention California in the section on America.
My take: Dabiq is written in English to appeal to potential converts. I've always maintained we should steer clear of ISIS's baiting and let ISIS rivals like the former Jabhat al Nusra, al Qaida, Taliban groups loyal to al Qaida, jihadists from the Khorassan region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, groups in Caucasus, etc. take it out. These rival groups will never accept al-Baghdadi as a Caliph (assuming he is even still alive) and unless we give them a reason to band together, such as killing scores of civilians in our airstrikes (which seems to be on the rise)or sending ground troops, their reach is limited. We are simply not in danger of ISIS taking over the world. Their views are not shared by other jihadist groups, even in their part of the world.
Reuters quotes analysts who believe as ISIS loses territory and fighters, and it becomes clear the attempt to establish a Caliphate has failed, ISIS will seek to increase attacks in other parts of the world. I don't disagree, but I think the pool of willing ISIS recruits is shrinking, due to the increase in influence of rival groups. ISIS can call for foreign attacks all it wants, but what if nobody's listening?
