Glenn Beck - It IS About Islam: Exposing the Truth About ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the Caliphate

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The Last Hour would not come until the Romans would land at al-Amaq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best (soldiers) of the people of the earth at that time will come from Medina (to counteract them).... They will then fight and a third of the army would run away, whom Allah will never forgive. A third which would be constituted of excellent martyrs in Allahs eye would be killed and the third who would never be put to trial would win and they would be conquerors of Constantinople.

Muhammad, according to the Hadith

T he man clad in black stood over his victim.

Peter Kassig, an American aid worker, wore an orange jumpsuit. His head was shaved. He was on his knees.

The man in black spoke into a camera with a discernible British accent. To Obama, the dog of Rome: today we are slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar and tomorrow, we will be slaughtering your soldiers. Soon we will be slaughtering your people on your streets.

As insane videotaped rants go, this one featured production values worthy of a Hollywood studio, complete with sound effects of heavy breathing and an audible heartbeat that seemed to speed up as the sixteen-minute video progressed. The sounds crescendoed right before Kassig and others were decapitated, their heads bloodying the sand.

Though clips of the grisly video were disseminated around the world, virtually no one in the media picked up the most important thing about them: the location of Kassigs slaughter, a town called Dabiq in northwest Syria. The spark of this conflict was lit in Iraq, the videos narrator warned, and its heat will continue to intensify by Allahs permission until it burns the crusader army in Dabiq. And here we are, burying the first crusader in Dabiq. Eagerly awaiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive.

Kassigs was among the first blood to spill in Dabiq, but millions of Muslims believe (and hope) that it is only the beginning. Dabiq, they contend, will be the site of the most consequential battle in the history of mankind.

The unassuming farmlands surrounding this northern Syrian town may at first seem like an odd place for such a confrontation. But for supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, it is the place prophesied by Muhammad where the forces of Christianity and Islam will mass and engage in a final conflagration.

In Islamic tradition, Dabiq is the site for what the Bible calls Armageddon. In and around this village the crusaders, or armies of Rome, as ISIS fanatics like to call them (and as Muhammad is reported to have predicted), will be vanquished once and for all, leaving an open road to Istanbul and Europe beyond. In this telling, Barack Obama and the United States are the leaders of these forces of Rome who will send their armies to fight ISIS. What will be left in the wake of the marauding Islamic armies and Americas final defeat is the Caliphate, a global governance of Muslims that will impose Islamic law, or sharia, on any survivors.

Dabiq is so central to this vision that it is mentioned over and over again in ISIS propaganda. In fact, it is the name of the movements official digital magazine. The cover of one recent issue featured ISISs black flag superimposed on a picture of St. Peters Square at the Vatican.

ISIS followers believe they will make all of this come to passthat they are actors setting the stage for the final act of history. Their tweets, propaganda videos, and statements are filled with references to the coming Day of Judgment, which will bring about the death of infidels and the resurrection of the righteous. As Graeme Wood, a scholar on the teachings and ideology of ISIS, wrote in the Atlantic, The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse.... The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.

To understand the stakes of the battle at hand, it makes sense to start at the end, to understand the cosmic plan in which our enemies believe they are playing a preordained role.

While there are varying interpretations and prophecies of how the end will play out, there is a strong conviction in Islamic circles that we are currently witnessing the disintegration of the world and the beginning of a new era to be ushered in by a mythical figure named the Mahdi and the second coming of Jesus Christ, who together will battle an Antichrist figure known as the Dajjal.

What makes ISISs (as well as the radical Islamists who share their ideology) interpretation of Islam so unique and dangerous is that they dont just believe that the End Times and the Day of Judgment are imminentthere are other religions that share this beliefthey believe they are charged with playing an active role in bringing these times about. In their minds, that justifies everything they do. The bloodshed and terror are just means to an endto the end, in fact.

And its why they will never stop.

On several occasions the Quran mentions the coming Day of Judgment ( yawm al-din ), a horrific time when the Muslim faithful will be separated from the infidels, who will be led to Hell in crowds, among boiling water and in the shades of black smoke. In fact, the Quran revels in the torture of nonbelievers after the Day of Judgment, predicting that they will have nothing but food that chokes and boiling water to drink while wearing garments of liquid pitch.