{"id":53428,"date":"2016-10-26T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53428"},"modified":"2016-10-26T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T15:27:04","slug":"prophetic-dreams-dabiq-now-mosul-back-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53428","title":{"rendered":"Prophetic dreams, Dabiq now, Mosul back then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; two dreams of the Prophet attributed to al-Baghdadi, one just now, one a year and a half ago ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Another response to the failure of a prophecy is to claim the Prophet foretold it. That at least is the claim made recently about the ISIS retreat from Dabiq:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ISIS?src=hash\">#ISIS<\/a> Baghdadi saw in his dream the prophet Mohamad asking him to pull out of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dabiq?src=hash\">#Dabiq<\/a>&quot;. Hopefully from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Raqqah?src=hash\">#Raqqah<\/a> and his rat whole as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BDT2gm1RXR\">pic.twitter.com\/BDT2gm1RXR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EjmAlrai\/status\/788017713763475456\">October 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, we should note that something very similar was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/isis-chief-baghdadi-prophet-mohammed-dream-rumour-spreads-amid-tension-before-mosul-battle-1492161\">reported back in March of 2015<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Baghdadi-dream-Mosul-2015.png\" alt=\"baghdadi-dream-mosul-2015\" width=\"504\" height=\"449\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Baghdadi-dream-Mosul-2015.png 504w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Baghdadi-dream-Mosul-2015-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Dreams were important to <strong>Muhammad<\/strong> and his Companions, gave guidance to both <strong>bin Laden<\/strong> and <strong>Mullah Omar<\/strong>, and are important to ISIS. They are among the &#8220;soft&#8221; aspects of jihad that we overlook at our peril (cf <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hegghammer.com\/_files\/Hegghammer_-_Wilkinson_Memorial_Lecture.pdf\">Thomas Hegghammer<\/a><\/strong>). <\/p>\n<p>For a quick overview, see <strong>Iain R Edgar<\/strong>&#8216;s pieces, <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablesecurity.org\/2016\/09\/08\/islamic-state-and-dream-warfare\/\">Islamic State and Dream Warfare<\/a> from September, or his earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrorismanalysts.com\/pt\/index.php\/pot\/article\/view\/453\/html\">The Dreams of Islamic State<\/a>. The second edition of his book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dream-Islam-Tradition-Jihadist-Inspiration\/dp\/1785332228\">The Dream in Islam: From Qur&#8217;anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration<\/a> includes material on ISIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; two dreams of the Prophet attributed to al-Baghdadi, one just now, one a year and a half ago ] . Another response to the failure of a prophecy is to claim the Prophet foretold it. That at least is the claim made recently about the ISIS retreat from Dabiq: &quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,622,459,526,1137,694,880,45,1078,1047,775,440,709,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-apocalyptic","category-bin-laden","category-charles-cameron","category-dabiq","category-dreams","category-hegghammer","category-iraq","category-is","category-isis","category-prophecy","category-syria","category-taliban","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53428"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53444,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53428\/revisions\/53444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}