'The dawn of a new era has begun': ISIS supporters hand out leaflets in London's Oxford Street encouraging people to move to newly proclaimed Islamic State

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Culled from DailyMail, UK</span></div> <ul class="mol-bullets-with-font" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Central London shoppers were encouraged to 'resettle' in Syria and Iraq</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Scotland Yard is investigating whether men have breached terror laws </strong><strong> </strong></span></li> </ul> <div class="author-section" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ISIS supporters have been handing out leaflets to Oxford Street shoppers encouraging them to leave Britain for its new Islamic state.</span></span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span id="ext-gen133" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The radicals stood in front of posters declaring 'the dawn of a new era has begun' in reference to the caliphate and their literature praised the 'sacrifices' made in the Middle East.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scotland Yard has said today it is investigating whether the men were breaking terror laws. </span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Propaganda: ISIS supporters have been handing out leaflets to Oxford Street shopper encouraging them to leave Britain for Syria and Iraq" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="0" height="704" id="i-4b6a8e78bb8ed428" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/13/1407925540185_Image_galleryImage_Khilafah_Establishment.JPG" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; 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min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Rules: The literature sets out how people should live their lives and encourages them to leave Britain for the caliphate" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="1" height="640" id="i-42c4ec91c2a467b0" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/13/1407925557738_wps_2_Khilafah_Establishment_Tw.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+3</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rules: The literature sets out how people should live their lives and encourages them to leave Britain for the caliphate</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One Muslim woman who confronted the men, believed to be from Luton and linked to hate preachers Anjem Choudary and Omar Bakri, said she was racially abused.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asmaa Al-kufaishi, tweeted: 'This group are promoting ISIS on Oxford Street. Racially abused us when we spoke out. They don’t know Islam.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'Promoting death of innocent people, telling me to die because of my faith and race and insulting me is not Islamic behaviour.'</span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pictures of the men and their leaflets have spread across social media.</span></div> <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div class="relatedItems" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <h4 style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More...</span></h4> <ul style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2723346/Youre-not-young-die-British-jihadists-bid-recruit-boys-young-15-social-media-sites.html" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">You're not too young to die: British jihadists in bid to recruit boys as young as 15 on social media sites</span></a></li> <li style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2722878/Bizarre-Twitter-outburst-ISIS-fighters-reveal-love-late-Robin-Williams-blockbuster-hit-Jumanji.html" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">'We are humans like you... Why shouldn't we see Jumanji?': Bizarre Twitter outburst by ISIS fighters who reveal their love of Robin Williams' blockbuster hit</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The literature describes the 'glad tidings' that 'Muslims with the help of Allah have announced the re-establishment of the Khilafah (sic) and appointed an imam as a Khaleef (sic).'</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It also sets out seven rules for supporters, including to 'obey' the leaders of ISIS, Sharia law, 'migrate' from the UK to the caliphate and 'expose lies' about the extremist group.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today, ISIS, which now styles itself simply Islamic State (IS), has become a powerful military force that now has control of an area larger than Great Britain. </span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Its extremists - which include hundreds of Britain - have carried out such acts of such extreme brutality that Al Qaeda has severed all links with them.</span></div> <div class="moduleFull" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="namedLink" href="" name="video" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"></a></span><div class="item" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <div id="v-3633085102001" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 636px;"> <div class="videoplayer-large" style="height: 358px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 636px;"> <a href="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"><div class="videoplayer-title-bg" style="box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 0px 3px 5px; 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padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anger: Shoppers on Oxford Street confronted the men and a Muslim woman said she was racially abused </span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The leafleting yesterday has led to calls for police action.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Met spokesman said: 'The MPS has been made aware, via social media, of leaflets which reports state were being distributed in the Oxford Street area. We are assessing the content of the leaflets to establish whether any criminal offences have been committed'.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ghaffar Hussain, managing director of the anti-extremism foundation Quilliam, said it is a 'clear breach of the law'.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'This is a very disturbing development but one that should not come as a surprise since we are aware that around 500 British nationals have joined up with ISIS already.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'We need to have a zero tolerance policy towards ISIS supporters and recruiters in the UK.'</span></div> <div class="cleared art-ins news" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 50px; padding: 0px;"> <h3 class="wocc" style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 5px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>WHAT IS THE CALIPHATE IN SYRIA AND IRAQ AND WHAT IS ISIS DOING THERE?</b></span></span></h3> <div class="cleared art-ins news" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 50px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="ins cleared xolcc bdrcc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 170, 210); margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 4px;"> <div class="floatRHS" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; width: 308px;"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Life in the ISIS caliphate" class="blkBorder img-share" height="277" id="i-f93c1fa55a7653d1" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/13/article-2723703-2064B50200000578-1_308x277.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="308" /></span></div> </div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The ISIS ‘caliphate’ – or Islamic state – stretches across wartorn Syria and Iraq.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The terrorist group say it represents the biggest shift in the political geography of the Middle East since  the borders of the two countries were drawn under the Sykes-Picot agreement drafted between Britain and France in 1916. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For some extremist organisations a caliphate is considered a utopian concept rather than a reality, but ISIS believe it is something to be fought for and established.</span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As well as claiming it as a nation, and giving it a leader, ISIS has also taken over basic public services such as collecting rubbish, taxes, enforcing Sharia law, and replacing Imams in bigger cities with their own Imams etc. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Law and order is enforced by deterrence. They have public show trials where defendants get publicly lashed or executed. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Andreas Krieg, a Middle East security analyst at King's College London in Qatar, told MailOnline: 'With limited forces available to administer the country, the local population could probably cause major problems if they rose up against ISIS. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'ISIS control is very fragile as people only co-operate due to fear not because they want to. Just because they have seized territory from official statutory power, it does not make them a statutory power. </span></div> <div style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'But they are learning and if there are able over the coming months and years to consolidate their power, they might be able to erect a quasi-regime loosely keeping all those territories together.'</span></div> </div> </div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

'The dawn of a new era has begun': ISIS supporters hand out leaflets in London's Oxford Street encouraging people to move to newly proclaimed Islamic State

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