Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Leader of ISIS: The World’s Biggest Badass

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
June 13, 2014

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Fighter of Jews, Defender of the Iraqi People, World’s Biggest Badass

Like all of you, I’m sure, I have been on the edge of my seat for the last day as the revolutionary forces of ISIS move forward like a tsunami wave to destroy everything that the Jews – using our armed forces – have established in Iraq.

As I’ve said, I cannot help but be gleeful at this hilarious and just development.

A few days earlier, such a thing was unimaginable. And all of it is due to a single person – an Avatar figure – who rose up last year and formed the most effective revolutionary group which presently exists on the planet earth.

Ten years of war to build this system, and one man is going to take it all down in a matter of days.

His name is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. And he is an inspiration to everyone on the planet who is fighting against the system imposed on us by the Jews.

The Guardian has an interesting report on what is known – or thought to be known – about this powerful figure who can, I believe objectively, claim the title of the World’s Greatest Living Badass.

Of all the prominent jihadi leaders, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), is among the most mysterious. And his mystique – for now at least – has only been burnished by his group’s capture of the city of Mosul.

Described by some as “the new Osama bin Laden”, he has a $10m US bounty on his head, only two pictures of him are known to exist and, contrary to his nom de guerre, he was born not in Baghdad but 78 miles north, in the city of Samarra.

Ambitious and violent, his reputation as a militant leader and tactician is as much a reflection of the disarray of other rebel groups in Syria and the poor showing of the Iraqi army this week.

Baghdadi is said to keep a low profile even among his own armed supporters, who amount to an estimated 7,000 fighters. He is not one for video-taped pronouncements; some reports claim – perhaps fancifully – that he wears a mask when addressing his commanders, earning him the nickname “the invisible sheikh”.

What is known about Baghdadi – whose aliases, according to US intelligence, include Abu Dua and Dr Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai – comes largely from jihadi websites describing his career and accomplishments or his own statements.

Born in 1971 into a religious family, Baghdadi earned a doctorate in education from the University of Baghdad.

There are competing versions of how he came to jihad. One suggests he was a militant jihadist during the time of Saddam Hussein. Others have pointed to the four years he was held at Camp Bucca as the root of his radicalisation.

Another variation describes how, after the US invasion in 2003, he was quickly drawn into the emerging al-Qaida in Iraq under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, getting involved first in smuggling foreign fighters into Iraq, then later as the “emir” of Rawa, a town near the Syrian border.

There, presiding over his own sharia court, he gained a reputation for brutality, publicly executing those suspected of aiding the US-led coalition forces – the same brutality that has become familiar to those living in Syria under his group’s control.

Baghdadi preached and taught at various mosques and apparently led several smaller militant groups before being promoted to a seat on the Majlis al-Shura (consultation council) of the mujahideen and judicial councils of the Islamic State in Iraq, who promoted Baghdadi to succeed the previous two leaders, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.

Perhaps learning from the lesson of one of his notorious predecessors in Iraq the Jordanian leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi – who was reprimanded in a letter by Al-Qaida Central for the excesses of his vioelnce – Baghdadi’s prominent supporters have tried to emphasise a leader open to discussions with tribal leaders.

None of this is entirely consistent with his rise to power in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq in 2010 – and later of Isis – during which he murdered prominent Sunnis as well as Shia civilians in bombings.

Indeed, part of the problem is that Baghdadi’s character – as presented through the writings of jihadi scholars who support him – has been designed to make him more palatable and deliberately cast him, as some analysts have suggested, in the role of a “philosopher jihadi” perhaps to boost his credentials for leadership within the wider jihadi world.

One measure of the success of that tactic is how Isis, under Baghdadi, has become the go-to group for thousands of would-be foreign jihadi fighters who have flocked to his banner. Then, Late last year a unilateral announcement was made that he was creating a new group that would be merged with a rival al-Qaida affiliate active in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra. It was a pronouncement disputed both by Jabhat, and Al-Qaida Central’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who ruled against Baghdadi.

Six months ago that was regarded as a moment of serious hubris. Today analysts are wondering whether, after the success of Isis in winning swathes of Iraq, Baghdadi has eclipsed Zawahriri at Al-Qaida Central. Whether that trajectory can continue will depend on the coming weeks and months.

This is one man who said “I am going to take down ZOG.” And by all appearances, he is going to be successful. Just a few months ago, he channelled the energy put into the Jewish-backed revolution in Syria into his own revolution, standing up and saying “follow me,” and the people listened.  Now, he is on the verge of taking Baghdad and establishing an Islamic Caliphate which he shall rule with an iron fist.

We should look upon this man as exactly the type of figure we need in our own movement. Not in the sense of violent revolution, but in the sense of a charismatic and powerful personality with the capacity to organize and move the people to do things which are otherwise unimaginable.

It is only through an individual personality that the impossible is made real.

Hail ISIS.  May their victory over their enemies be swift and brutal.
Hail ISIS. May their victory over their enemies be swift and brutal.

May Baghdad fall to the just and righteous forces of retribution, and may those traitors who destroyed Iraq at the behest of the Jews be hanged.

I would that once his Kingdom in Iraq is secured, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would take the rest of the Islamic world, unite them under this revolutionary flag, and stop the forces of Jewry from turning the Middle East into an endless chaos scenario.  We can then negotiate with him to have the Muslim immigrants in Europe repatriated.

He is clearly a reasonable man, and one who refuses to bow.