"Rawti Shax is a terrorist organization of Kurdish-Sunni origin that aims to overthrow the Iraqi Kurdish regional government and replace it with a caliphate ruled by Shariah law. The founder of Rawti Shax is a Kurdish Sunni jihadist Islamic scholar, Mullah Krekar who came to Norway as a political refugee from northern Iraq in 1991. He was the original leader of the Islamist armed group Ansar al-Islam. In 2012 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for making repeated death threats against Norwegian politicians and kurds." from TRAC