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| Al Qaeda To ISIS: Get Off My Lawn—The Theological Debate Behind The Caliphate |
| 2014-07-11 |
| [DailyBeast] The man who calls himself Caliph Ibrahim and demands the allegiance of Moslems everywhere has mastered the manipulation of religious symbols in ways that resonate with gullible young Moslems and scare the hell out of some wiser ones—including many nervous Arab leaders. His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , as he used to be known, has stopped short of proclaiming himself the Mahdi, a messianic figure who will appear on earth shortly before Judgment Day, but that might just be next. Ibrahim has captured the imagination of angry young people looking for a different kind of savior: at once an avenging angel, an imposer of order, a restorer of dignity. "What he has done to the global jihad is what 9/11 did," says a veteran CIA analyst, speaking privately. "Who ever heard of the global jihad on September 10, 2001? And this is on top of that. This takes it to a whole new level, this declaration of the caliphate." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 I read the article through. The author, I think, confuses elements of the sitrep: theology for politics, ideology for war-fighting capacity, the fevers of youth for political astuteness. Still, a useful read. Baghdadi is a competent field commander. Zarqawi was a psycho case, merely brutal. Zawahiri is a rump session for a Salafist movement that moves way beyond his remit. Baghdadi also has the taunting/mocking skill of Occupy White House and as much propensity to use it. The press love him for that. Occupy White House will not touch him. And I still think Saud and Qatar fund him, which the article author does not touch one way or another and is important, either way. |
| Posted by: TopRev 2014-07-11 14:14 |
| #2 IOW it'll come down to something like this: "Je veux devenir calife à la place du calife" |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-07-11 08:06 |
| #1 Can we hope for a fight? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-11 04:52 |