The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic StateMacmillan + ORM, 2015 M09 22 - 258 pages Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic--including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few have seen--William McCants's The ISIS Apocalypse explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophecy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future. |
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... Shi'a , one of the two major sects in Islam . Zarqawi , a Sunni , disagreed with the Shi'i doctrine that Muhammad's son- in - law and some of his male descendants were infallible and the only legitimate political and religious leaders ...
... Shi'a signaled the beginning of a bloody sectarian civil war. Zarqawi's group had not pulled off the attack alone ... Shi'a who stood to benefit from the occupation. 18 Zarqawi's hatred of the Shi'a was all-consuming. To his mind, the ...
... Shi'a have destroyed all those balances . " " 21 If al - Qaeda's leaders would assent to his strategy , Zarqawi offered to swear allegiance to them , joining his group to theirs : " If you agree with us on it , if you adopt it as a ...
... this will continue . " In addition to jeopardizing public support , Zawahiri doubted the morality of these sectarian attacks . “ Why kill ordinary Shi'a considering that they are forgiven because of their ignorance ? And.
... Shi'a ? " Another al - Qaeda leader in Bin Laden's inner circle , Atiyya Abd al- Rahman , was blunter in a December 2005 letter to Zarqawi . Echoing the nineteenth - century Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz , Atiyya ...
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