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It may be that a significant part of the appeal of the Islamic state formation
to those who come from far and near to fight under their banner is their
declared intention to shatter the borders flowing from the 1916 Skyes-Picot
Agreement, which agreement created artificial nation states out of the remains
of the Ottoman Empire, by and for the benefit of Imperial England, France, with
the assent of feeble but hopeful Imperial Russia.
The Islamic State thus proceeds beyond the politics of the 20th century
“Colonial Revolution,” limited to expelling the direct rule of whichever
foreign power dominated, but which did not touch a hair of the old colonial
physical state boundaries, in Africa or the Middle East.
Destroying that antique, externally imposed organization of territory is what
they do.
Part of their popular appeal is a vision of a new, unitary power, opposed to
the old powers and the United States, and treating the old national borders
imposed from outside as enemy arrangements to be destroyed.
As usual, the religious mask hides a scramble for political and economic power
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From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu
Sent: Feb 28, 2015 8:51 AM
Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Caliphatalism? - The American Interest
While atheism exists everywhere, what is rising in Mosul, and probably
in Raqqa too, is a trend worth noting. When young people, once devoted
Muslims, decide to stray from the Creator in anger, the future will bear
the consequences. A young doctor told me he has become a heavy smoker
and laughs about the extreme lengths he goes to just to get his hands on
smoke after ISIS added cigarettes to its extended “taboo list.” He
wrapped his amusing story with blasphemy: “If not only ISIS, but if
Allah Himself comes down here to Mosul and tells me stop, I will still
find a way to smoke.” This is a far cry from the man I used to know, who
backed the Islamic Party in all national and local elections. ISIS is
driving him crazy.
full: http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/02/02/caliphatalism/
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