The Internationalization of ISIS: The Muslim State in Iraq and Syria - Tapa dura

-Will the self-declared caliphate be destroyed or will it self destruct? The disturbing answers can be found in a new book by Dr. Raphael Israeli. . . . As an historian of Islamic movements, Israeli addresses the grand sweep of the Islamic State rise in the vacuum created in both Syria and Iraq. It is based on the fatal attraction of the pure Salafism practiced under Shari'a by Islam's founder and successors. Israeli delves into the strategic difference with al-Qa'ida from whence it originally emerged in Iraq. He separately treats the metastasizing terror affiliates in Egypt's Sinai and Libya, as well as former Al Qa'ida affiliates in Africa, the AQIM and Boko Haram, who have sworn fealty to the self-declared Islamic State. Unlike al-Qa'ida that sprang from the success of Afghan rout of the Russians in 1989 backed by Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, Deobandi Pakistan with US CIA aid, the Islamic State holds land in which pure Islam can be practiced. Moreover, unlike al-Qa'ida it has wealth, admittedly stolen, to bolster its attraction across the globe.- --Jerry Gordon, The New English Review "Will the self-declared caliphate be destroyed or will it self destruct? The disturbing answers can be found in a new book by Dr. Raphael Israeli. . . . As an historian of Islamic movements, Israeli addresses the grand sweep of the Islamic State rise in the vacuum created in both Syria and Iraq. It is based on the fatal attraction of the pure Salafism practiced under Shari'a by Islam's founder and successors. Israeli delves into the strategic difference with al-Qa'ida from whence it originally emerged in Iraq. He separately treats the metastasizing terror affiliates in Egypt's Sinai and Libya, as well as former Al Qa'ida affiliates in Africa, the AQIM and Boko Haram, who have sworn fealty to the self-declared Islamic State. Unlike al-Qa'ida that sprang from the success of Afghan rout of the Russians in 1989 backed by Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, Deobandi Pakistan with US CIA aid, the Islamic State holds land in which pure Islam can be practiced. Moreover, unlike al-Qa'ida it has wealth, admittedly stolen, to bolster its attraction across the globe." --Jerry Gordon, The New English Review