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“There is one prophecy about the Antichrist that the Islamic State and its fans have studiously avoided, even though it is in a collection of prophecies they revere: The Antichrist will “appear in the empty area between Sham and Iraq.”49 That, of course, is precisely where the Islamic State is located.”
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
“It is no great exaggeration to say that Sunni political Islam began as an effort to restore the caliphate. Several world congresses were convened in the 1920s and 1930s to name a new caliph, but political discord led to deadlock. No Muslim country wanted to see its rivals get the office.”
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
“most of the Islamic State’s hudud penalties are identical to penalties for the same crimes in Saudi Arabia: death for blasphemy, homosexual acts, treason, and murder; death by stoning for adultery; one hundred lashes for sex out of wedlock; amputation of a hand for stealing; amputation of a hand and foot for bandits who steal; and death for bandits who steal and murder.”
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
“Second, the Islamic State’s desires: The Islamic State’s politics differ profoundly from that of most Wahhabis, who view the Saudi kingdom as a legitimate Islamic government. As the State sees things, no Muslim-majority state in the world deserves to call itself Islamic, which is why it set up its own state and declared a caliphate. To achieve that end, the Islamic State had to wage an insurgency, which it justified with scripture.”
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
“Their apocalyptic and puritanical religious rhetoric is designed to appeal to people who are interested in that sort of thing, but the Islamic State’s leaders don’t really believe it themselves. They’ll dress their actions up in prophecy and adopt the trappings of an austere Islamic caliphate but it’s not from conviction. They see religious symbols and laws as useful vehicles for realizing their ambitions, which is not an irrational viewpoint,”
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
― The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
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