Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Quotes


We call upon you so you leave the life of humiliation, disgrace, degradation, subordination, loss, emptiness, and poverty [for] a lifetime of honor, respect, leadership, [and] riches…. You will have victory from Allah and an imminent conquest.


Context

This was a classsic recruiting speech to join the fundamentalist Islamic terror group he headed. This egomaniacal, Islamic terrorist proclaimed hinself the Caliph of all Muslims and lead the Islamic State [ISIS or ISIL] and attacked and took over parts of Syria and Iraq until he and his organization beheaded Americans


Citations

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Recruiting Speech, Quoted in Malise Ruthven, “Mosque and State”, Foreign Affairs, September / October 2016

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
  • Born: July 28, 1971
  • Died: October 27, 2019
  • Nationality: Iraqui
  • Profession: Terrorist

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أَبُو بَكْرٍ ٱلْبَغْدَادِيُّ‎, romanized: ʾAbū Bakr al-Baḡdādī), born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, was an Iraqi terrorist and the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from 2014 until his death in 2019.