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- The real threat from ISIS is not territorial but ideological.
Question 1:
The real threat from ISIS is not territorial but ideological. Fighters are flocking to the fledgling caliphate because they are attracted to the notion that violence and bloodshed can create a space of totalitarian homogeneity. It’s not simply the attraction of a particular religious interpretation. ISIS offers a counter-narrative to nationalism and the emptiness of godless globalization. The society that the caliphate has created is multi-ethnic, transnational, and fully conversant in the latest technology. A. We may well look back at the first year of the Islamic State and wax nostalgic about how comparatively placid it was.
B. And yet it also offers a very specific, historically grounded identity.
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C. However, ISIS is not a state. States are part of the world that ISIS rejects.
D. It has a 100-year plan for taking over the world and imposing its own version of Islamic orthodoxy.
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