The barbarism in the name of god, dark ages and religious intolerance in the middle east as the antithesis
Keywords:
Islam, Tolerance, ISIS, Caliphate, Sharia,Abstract
Again the Western world looks at the Middle East with self-reported concern. The northern Iraq and eastern Syria recently are under control of a “jihadist” movement, fruit of the union of armed resistance factions to Americans in Iraq and against the Assad regime in Syria, called ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), self-proclaimed caliphate. The ISIS installed a regime of radical and cruel repression against political opponents and religious minorities. There are reports of crucifixions, executions, decapitations and selling women as slaves. Shares of ISIS are assigned to the precepts of Sharia, the set of sacred sources of the Islamic law (Fiqh). The purpose of the paper is to analyze the political and religious legitimacy of the caliphate self-proclaimed, and its legal processes against religious minorities such as Shia, Alawites, Druze and Christians, and ethnic really consistent with Islamic law.