Eighth point: What is the Criteria for Denouncing and Elevating the Scholars?!

I have full conviction that the reason why ISIS denounces the scholars is based on one criteria only, and that is that they differ with them. This is despite the fact that Adnani swore in his Mubahala that that he does not denounce anyone simply because they oppose them. But you will not be able to understand any other way in which they denounce or praise any scholar except through this. They have denounced some scholars because they do not make Takfeer on the Islamists who enter parliament, while we also find that they praise the scholars who permit entering the parliament. And some examples of these are:

Sheikh Ahmad Shaakir who said in his book entitled "The Book (Quran) and the Sunnah must be the source of Law in Egypt", page 40 - 41, where he said, "That will be the path to achieve what is necessary in supporting the Shareeah, which is, the constitutional peaceful way, in which we spread our preachings in the Ummah, and we struggle by it, and speak openly, and then we fight for it in the elections, and we appeal to the Ummah in it, and if we fail once then we will win many times, rather we will make our failure in the beginning a prelude to our success which will stimulate motivation and awaken determination."

And despite this they named him "The Sheikh, the Allaamah (highly learned scholar)", in their official publication "Sawlat al Ansar"!!

And similar to that is Sheikh Abdullah Azzam who permitted entering the parliament as has come in his tape "Discussion regarding politics and ruling". And despite that they named him "The Mujahid Sheikh" as has come in their official release "Hudaa ush-Shuhada-1"!!

Also Abu Bakr al Baghdadi considered Sheikh Athiyathullah al Libbi as one of the symbols of Jihad and its best leaders, as stated in his speech "But Allah will not allow except that He perfects His Light".

And they called him the active Mujahid scholar.

And in a statement released by the Islamic State of Iraq, it said about Sheikh Athiyathullah - "Another hero from the heroes of this Ummah, and from the best of its men. We have never heard from him anything except that which would increase pride, firmness and reassurance in the hearts of the