{"id":9743,"date":"2014-07-05T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T16:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9743"},"modified":"2014-07-05T21:07:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T21:07:58","slug":"abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-appears-in-public-leading-jummah-prayers-in-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-appears-in-public-leading-jummah-prayers-in-mosul\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears in public leading Jummah prayers in Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><strong>The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed Caliph, has appeared in public leading the jummah prayers at Mosul\u2019s Great Al-Nuri Mosque.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\">\n<p>Speaking from the mimbar (pulpit) al-Baghdadi urged Muslims from around the\u00a0world\u00a0to make hijra to the \u201cIslamic state\u201d which was announced on Sunday 29 June, first day of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in a black thobe (robe) and turban he said to the congregation: \u201cI am the wali (leader) who presides over you, though I am not the best of you, so if you see that I am right, assist me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\">\n<p>\u201cIf you see that I am wrong, advise me and put me on the right track, and obey me as long as I obey God in you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His public appearance in Mosul came just as Iraqi officials claimed that he had been severely injured in a raid by government forces in Anbar province and had since fled to\u00a0Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to come out of hiding may have been aimed at disproving such claims, as well as demonstrating to numerous Islamist and jihadist organisations that have rejected the Islamic state on the basis of its lack of internal and external security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\">\n<p>The full khutbah can be viewed on YouTube:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5c5c5c;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=itu6NhED9Yk&amp;feature=youtu.be\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=itu6NhED9Yk&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full transcript of the speech can be read here:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5c5c5c;\" href=\"http:\/\/justpaste.it\/g23g\">http:\/\/justpaste.it\/g23g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full audio speech can be heard here:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5c5c5c;\" href=\"http:\/\/ia601509.us.archive.org\/24\/items\/mm_259336\/risala.mp3\">http:\/\/ia601509.us.archive.org\/24\/items\/mm_259336\/risala.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed Caliph, has appeared in public leading the jummah prayers at Mosul\u2019s Great Al-Nuri Mosque. Speaking from the mimbar (pulpit) al-Baghdadi urged Muslims from around the\u00a0world\u00a0to make hijra to the \u201cIslamic state\u201d which was announced on Sunday 29 June, first day of Ramadan. Dressed in a black &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1024,1025,162,905,906,22,92,163],"class_list":["post-9743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-abu-bakr","tag-baghdadi","tag-headline","tag-isis","tag-mosul","tag-takfiri","tag-terrorism","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}