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Fighters of the Syrian opposition with the support of Turkish armored vehicles and aircraft recaptured the terrorist “Islamic state” Dabic, strategically worthless city, which is extremely important from the point of view of the ideology of ISIS. In Islamic prophecies Dabic mentioned as the place of the decisive battles of the Christian West and Muslims. Now the city is reclaimed, and the last battle, it seems, is repealed.

Dabic is a place of the day of judgment. Advocates of the “Islamic state”, promising their followers that they are the “righteous” army, which is the last war before the end of the world, is very dear to this city. According to Islamic tradition about the end of the world, it was here that the army of Rome (according to the propaganda of ISIS — the Western coalition) would break their camp. And then the soldiers of Islam will fight against them and win.

Defeat “Rome” will begin the countdown to the Apocalypse. At some point coming Islamic Antichrist Dajjal. It will be extremely strong and kill many Muslims. When hopes there will be no Dajjal and prepare for the decisive blow, you return to earth of the prophet ISA (i.e. Jesus the second most revered in Islam prophets) pierce with a spear Dajjal, and lead the Muslims to victory. Come the Apocalypse and eternal justice.

But now the city is reclaimed, all the promises of the close of the Apocalypse, which gave the propagandists of ISIS, went to pieces.

If the leader of this group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was indeed a true Caliph, which was discussed in the Quran and hadith (the traditions of Islamic righteous), his army would win.

Now it turns out that all those who fought on the side of ISIS, not the “righteous warriors”, and the usual terrorists hiding behind the Islamic dogmas. The interpretation of Islamic texts “preachers” of the IG condemned as the largest Sunni Islamia Yusuf al-Qaradawi and many other Muslim scholars of the world.

“When did the surrender Dabica, I was in the plane flying to London. I woke up to see Apocalypse delayed. Praise be to Allah”, — so commented on this event on Twitter Michael Weiss, one of the leading Western scholars of Islamic terrorism and the phenomenon of ISIS.

How seriously to this prediction are supporters, according to numerous videos, which the terrorists quoting the prophecies of the Apocalypse and use images from the Koran to justify their murder.

On one of the first movies of this group, published in November 2014, was captured the execution of American journalist Peter Cassia. A masked executioner, by showing the severed head of Cassia, said: “Here we are burying the first American Crusader in Debica, anxiously awaiting the arrival of your armies.”

Of course, the main propaganda journal of the IG aimed at Western countries, also called “Dabic”.

Spark “Dabica”

Each room is “Dabica” opens with a quote from the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: “From a spark that erupted here in Iraq, is gonna be a flame, it will burn stronger and stronger, with the permission of Allah, till the day they burn the armies of crusaders in Dubica”.

Al-Zarqawi is a criminal who in the 1990s served time for drug trafficking and rape. But in the terrorist underground of the Middle East he is known primarily as the man who has made a significant contribution to the emergence of the “Islamic state of Iraq” — the forerunner of ISIS. In 2006, he died in Iraq from an American airstrike.

The first issue of “Debica” was released on 5 July 2014, after a matter of days after the leader of the IG Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the creation of a terrorist “Caliphate.” Then, on 29 June 2014, Baghdadi delivered a sermon in honor of the beginning of the Holy month of Ramadan. It was a kind of religious doctrine. “Come on, Muslims, for their country! It’s your country. Forward, because Syria belongs to the Syrians, and Iraq does not belong to the Iraqis”, he said.

Al-Baghdadi, taking into account the errors of “al-Qaeda” (international terrorist organization that has experienced growth in the early 2000s and saw the IG of his rival), simplified religious dogma.

In the IG could engage any man that calls himself a Muslim and is ready to shed the blood of others.

Even the defeat of ISIS in the eyes of his supporters meant nothing, because God, as claimed by the propagandists of terror, and so have prepared the people of nearly complete destruction.

If the leaders of “al-Qaeda” (also banned in Russia organization) Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri did not take it upon myself to become the agents of the prophecy of the Apocalypse and have seen their organization only a prologue to the emergence of the “righteous Caliphate” that ISIS did not hesitate and called themselves “the army of the end of the world”. This was the main reason for religious disagreements between the two terrorist organizations.

The leaders of the “al-Qaeda” and ISIS had presented itself and the idea of a Caliphate, and the role of religion in their activities.

The end of the end of the world

A propaganda magazine of ISIS to a Western audience “Dabic” not out for two months. Instead, it appeared the magazine “Rumia” (the Arabic name for Rome). The output of the new magazine became the first publication in the propaganda of ISIS after the death of his chief specialist on work with mass media, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani. Al-Adnani was killed in the late summer of this year. Whose it is a merit — Russian air force or American, is still unclear. Moscow says al-Adnani was killed in an air strike su-34, Washington insists that he was killed after an American drone strike. On the cover of the first issue “Rumia” — photo al-Adnani.

“What we are interested in is the speed with which the ISIS has renamed its core journal “Dabic”. “Rumia” has a complete similarity with the layout “Debica”, and the content of his are also a little different, says the Director of programs of the European center for strategic studies and security (ESISC) Evgenia Gvozdeva. — Official statements from the representatives of the IG is not. But everything indicates that in August they realized that letting Dubica is a matter of time, and in the ideological plan prepared in advance.”

“Rumia” is published by the same group of terrorist “PR” that “Dabic”, media center “al-Hayat”. This IG unit engaged in the production of advocacy materials. The “Rumia” immediately began to appear in several languages, while Dabic traditionally been published in English.

Moreover, the first main journal of the IG was published in Russian.

In a heavy IG environment “Rumia” marked the beginning of a new era in jihadist propaganda. The issue of the journal in several languages says plans to spread the word of a terrorist “Caliphate” throughout the world, even if the militants will be defeated in Syria and Iraq and their “Apocalypse” will end before it began.

“With the ideological side delivery Dubica is a disaster. Since January of this year, we see the decadent mood that prevail in the IG. It is quite revealing. There were instructions about what to do to fighters, if the organization will fall. And it was quite formal messages, says Gvozdev. — Changed the key message in the propaganda of ISIS. Now the defeat is presented as a test to distinguish the true believers from the doubters. Naturally, the emphasis is on the fact that it’s all temporary”.

17 October, the Iraqi army launched an assault on Mosul. The capture of the city would deprive ISIS main base in Iraq. That the spirit of the fighters breaks show coming from Mosul messages.

Over the weekend Reuters, citing local sources, reported that ISIS executed 58 of their commanders for what they were going to help Iraqi troops retake the city under their control. He headed a rebel group of local assistant to al-Baghdadi.

Looks like he and his accomplices ceased to consider themselves soldiers of the “army of Apocalypse”.

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