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“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
“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
“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
“Religious convictions and political benefit are not always antithetical.”
― 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
“Anticipating Jesus’s descent and executing his followers probably strikes most readers as odd. The Qur’an portrays Jesus as a messenger of God and his followers as those “nearest in love to the believers” (5:82). But the prophecies attributed to Muhammad outside the Qur’an foresee Jesus returning to fight alongside the Muslims against the infidels. As in the Bible, the appearance of Jesus heralds the Last Days. But instead of gathering the faithful up to heaven, he will lead the Muslims in a war against the Jews, who will fight on behalf of the Antichrist, called the Deceiving Messiah. Jesus will “shatter the crucifix, kill the swine, abolish the protection tax, and make wealth to flow until no one needs any more,” says one prophecy attributed to Muhammad and quoted by the first emir of the Islamic State.”
― 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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