Islamic Revival

International media reports have claimed that the Islamic State of  Iraq  and al-Sham (ISIS) has entered the Lebanese town of Arsal. Reporting from Beirut,  Ali Harfouch  explains how the Lebanese army’s recent offensive is a wider war against “Sunni radicals” who support the Syrian rebels. The Lebanese Army has cemented itself as a key player in the regional and international “war on terror” – more specifically – against “radical elements” that have dominated the Syrian revolution. On August 2 nd  the Lebanese Army arrested rebel commander Ahmad Abu al-Jumma in the border town of Arsal in Bekaa valley, which has witnessed a massive influx of Syrian refugees and remains a battle-zone between rebels and Syrian regime. Arsal is also a key strategic town, the control of which means the control of the Lebanese-Syrian border. Following the arrest, heavy-clashes ensued between armed rebel groups and the Lebanese army, leaving dozens of civilians, rebel fighters and armed forces dead

With the current evacuation of Christian populations from Iraqi towns and cities and further unverified reports of Yazidis hiding out in mountains around the town of Sinjar, we direct your attention to a press release from Hizb ut Tahrir Iraq issued recently regarding the growing escalating tensions with minorities in the Iraq. The news – despite being bitter – did not surprise us where Christians evacuated their homes and residences in Mosul, on their way to the Nineveh Plain and the Kurdistan region, so as to escape with their lives, before the expiry of the deadline set by the ISIS Organization (Saturday 19th July 2014 at noon). The deadline came in the so called Destiny Document that was communicated during the Friday sermons in the city’s mosques, where Christians were given an ultimatum to convert to Islam, pay Jizya, or leave the city, with not more than the clothes they are wearing and not to carry with them anything of their money or possessions. If they did not, there

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