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ISIS’s First Step: Conquer Rome, Defeat Christianity
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CBN News It's a plan that, for now, has little chance of success.
But in his new book, The ISIS Apocalypse,
author and expert William McCants says ISIS has recently taken a longer
term view of the conquest of Rome and the return of the Mahdi, and is
willing to wait in order to build up its forces.
ISIS is now next door to Italy in North Africa. More
importantly, Islamic State fighters are reportedly already inside
Italy, some posing as refugees, going about their lives, waiting for the
day when the battle for Rome begins.ROME -- The Islamic State has a plan to conquer
Rome. Yes, it might sound crazy, but ISIS believes the conquest of Rome
is central to its mission.
They believe it is necessary to fulfill what Islam
teaches was the prophecy of Muhammed and to prepare the return of the
Muslim messiah: the Mahdi.
"ISIS thinks that Rome is one of its primary goals and is in its timetable," Robert Spencer, author of The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS, said.
"It has a timetable where in the 10 years, by the
year 2025, it hopes to bring about Armageddon, the final struggle
between good and evil or between the Muslims and the non-Muslims," he
explained. "And that one of the chief stepping stones to that Armageddon
battle is the conquest of Rome, which they think they're going to be
able to do with the next five years, by 2020."
Two Cities, One Mission
Muslim scholars say Muhammed prophesied that the two
great Roman cities would be conquered: Constantinople and Rome.
Constantinople is now Istanbul, a Muslim city.
Rome remains to be conquered.
"Once Rome is conquered, in this view, within the
next five years, then Israel will follow shortly after. They also
believe that during this time period they're also going to conquer Saudi
Arabia and Iran," Spencer said.
Now, before you laugh, consider that phase one of
the Islamic State's plan to take Rome may already be underway: flooding
Europe with ISIS fighters under the cover of the current refugee crisis.
"They're not talking about doing it by conventional
armies; they're talking about doing (it) by overwhelming these lands
with sympathizers from within, and in influx of people from outside,"
Spencer said.
"And that's something we see happening right now in
Europe. And so it's not that far outside of the realm of possibility
that they could at least make these attempts," he continued.
The Islamic State reveals part of its plan in its
publication "Black Flags From Rome." It will use sleeper cells and
expects to get help from Muslims serving in European armies and from
non-Muslim sympathizers.
It also wants to fire missiles into Italy that it has captured on the battlefield.
Islamic Armageddon
This is a threat that is hard for Italian and
foreign policy expert Emaneule Ottolenghi to be concerned about. He said
Europe has more pressing problems because of ISIS.
"The concern should be commensurate to the reality
of the threat," he said. "The Islamic threat does not pose that kind of
threat today. My main concern is with the lone wolf terrorist who plots a
terror outrage against a school, against a supermarket, against a
shopping mall, against an airport."
And it certainly is hard to see how ISIS could
conquer Rome, a city of 3 million people in a nation of 60 million
people. But it is not hard to see ISIS attempting it.
The conquest of Rome has been a primary goal since the beginning of the Islamic State.
"They think that the conquest of Rome will be the
complete sign of Islam's superiority over Christianity and defeat of
Christianity," Spencer said.
They also see the fall of Rome on an eschatological
timeline that will culminate in a battle against the infidel armies near
Dabiq, Syria; their version of Armageddon, according to Spencer.
"And they think that once this battle takes place at
Dabiq, this final battle which they see coming 10 years from now 2025,
then the Muslims will battle the non-Muslims in this town in northern
Syria," Spencer said.
"And then Jesus, the Muslim prophet, and Mahdi will
return to the Earth, and they will together conquer and Islamize the
world," he said.
Celebration by Killing
If their plan for Rome succeeds, ISIS says it will throw homosexuals from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa.
But the main event, as they see it, will be the
beheading of the Pope in St. Peter's Square, broadcast and live-streamed
to a horrified international audience.
Spencer said a member of ISIS recently said "'Once
we take Rome we are going to carry out mass beheadings in St. Peter's
Square."
"And so this is the plan, to convert St Peter's
Square into a huge site of executions to people judged to be enemies of
Allah, chief among them the Pope, in order to cow and frighten the rest
of the world into submitting to their rule," Spencer said. Source: CBN News
Edited by News Room on 10/07/2015 at 6:49pm
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