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As part of research involving in-depth interviews with Isis members for a book about the organisation, American analyst Michael Weiss and I have identified half a dozen categories of Isis members according to the factors that drew them to the group. In at least two of those categories, religion more than anything else has been the driving force. But these two demographic components – long-standing takfiris (radicals who adhere to teachings that declare fellow Muslims as infidels) and young zealots – are more central for Isis than other members because they formulate the group’s identity and ensure its resilience. In addition, the appeal of Isis outside its conflict zones tends to be primarily ideologically driven.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/25/inside-isis-training-camps – 1/24/2015.
The seeds of today’s brutality were perhaps sown long ago in a 2006 book called “The Management of Savagery,” wrote expert Lawrence Wright in the New Yorker. The book, written by a radical Islamist thinker named Abu Bakr Naji, details patterns of “abominable savagery” witnessed in both the Islamic State and its earlier incarnations. According to this English translation, it calls for an “administration of savagery” and a merciless campaign to polarize the population, attract adherents and establish a pure Sunni caliphate. “We must make this battle very violent, such that death is a heartbeat away, so that the two groups will realize that entering this battle will frequently lead to death,” the book says.
Related on BackChannels:
https://conflict-backchannels.com/2013/10/01/jisadists-an-update-on-westgate-mall-barbarity/ – 10/1/2013.
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here in pakistan majority of people is of the view that isis is the force os united state…….al qaida worked for united states did its job ,,,now isis doing it….same game different faces….usama…….now abu bakar baghdadi
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For the Soviet communists — godless and totalitarian — we aided what was to turn into a monster, and the monster in its turn abuses and uses others. The U.S. has taken a stance against this nonsense — the al-Qaeda / Brotherhood bands and the complement of terrorism courtesy of Hezbollah from before 9/11. The confusion in Pakistan has to be sown and spread from other sources. Lists of U.S. designated terrorist groups may be easily found online and followed up with a trove of public intelligence — that’s what BackChannels accesses — that comes out of separated sources, public and private publishing and research enterprises, that may then be sifted for corroboration.
BackChannels has suggested that Baghdadi may have been self-propelled and perhaps aided by unofficial rogue wealth in Sunni Islam; however, the break into Iraq may have been abetted by Ayatollah Khamenei to accomplish several goals: deflect attention from the Iranian regime (that has certainly worked); contribute further to turning the revolution in Syria into something that looks like “secular vs Islamist” — i.e., advantageous and duplicitously developed political theater; and set up conditions for a later “great Shiite vs Sunni war”. Note: while ISIS blew into Iraq north of Baghdad, it handily held off assaulting (through its considerable repertoire of methods) the heavily Shiite communities south of Baghdad).
Moscow-Damascus-Tehran today extend in time the legacy of the Soviet Empire and the KGB. Having abandoned Marxism, Moscow’s elite — the “New Nobility”, the “oligarchs” — have embraced a similarly privileged neo-feudal state capitalism and with it promoted a new medievalism that finds expression in despotism shared across states (different talk — same walk). While their states and stated ideological and religious ends may vary wildly, the dictators Putin, Assad, and Khamenei share equal interest in remaining in power as absolute rulers. That is the behavior witnessed by BackChannels and derived from tracking a portion of conflict-related news over many years.
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