Jordan’s Hashemite monarchy would be ripe to fall if it wasn’t for their internal security forces (General Intelligence Directorate) who keep a tight lid on Islamists.
Via JPost:
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a new video calling on the residents of the southern Jordanian city of Ma’an to wage jihad against the government.
Clashes between security forces and residents have gone on for the past couple of weeks in Ma’an after a youth was killed in a search for wanted persons.”[Take up] arms! Blood for blood, destruction for destruction! The only solution for this criminal regime is to fight it and wage jihad against it… what the criminal regime is doing in Ma’an is neither novel nor extraordinary for this regime.
It is a regime of treachery, a regime of unbelief and apostasy,” said ISIL fighter Gharib Al-Urduni in the video released Saturday, according to an exclusive report by the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor of MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute) “It is the regime that has ruled over the Muslims for dozens of years according to [laws] differing from those of the Koran and the Sunna of the Prophet. It rules them instead according to infidel man-made laws. It is a regime that kills Muslims and aggresses their sacred places… it is a regime that battles jihad and the mujahideen in all the jihad arenas…” said Urduni.
The video titled “A Message to Our People in Ma’an,” urges residents to take up arms against the government and for tribesmen to abandon the security forces and stop allowing their sons to serve in them.
The ISIL fighter warned the Jordanian army that it was prepared to fight them.
“I wish to send a message to the soldiers of the taghout [the tyrant – referring to the Jordanian king], members of his police, his security services and his military, I say to you – repent! … you are the ones who maintain the throne of this tyrannical, criminal regime… this regime exploits you to oppress the Muslims… you are the ones who safeguard the Jews’ borders and prevent the youth from waging jihad there [in Israel], you are the ones who prevent the youth from going to wage jihad in Syria and other jihad fronts… repent, and if you refuse, and keep standing in this tyrant’s camp, know that you can expect nothing but the sword from us, you will have nothing but killing from us… Do not think we are afraid of you. With Allah’s will, we are coming for you,” he said according to the report.