Copyrighted Image? DMCA | The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy--and for how to stop it.. In the past yea Obama has referred to ISIS, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group. Says Wood: "We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that changeand that it considers itself a harbinger of--and headline player in--the imminent end of the world." Orwell warned about Hitler's APPEAL: "I offer you a good time," , "I offer you struggle, danger, and death," and as a result a whole nation flung itself at his feet". Grasp this! |