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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... Vision of the Islamic State William McCants. This is not Bin Laden's jihad . In what follows , I will tell you why the Islamic State's jihad is different and why that difference matters . ONE RAISING THE BLACK FLAG On a mild August morning.
... BLACK. FLAG. On a mild August morning in 2014, a passerby noticed a black flag hanging outside a rundown duplex in suburban New Jersey. He could not make out the flag's black-and-white Arabic, but he recognized the design from the news ...
... flag . MAKING THE BLACK FLAG When the Islamic State first announced itself on October 15 , 2006 , it had no 59 flag of its own . It was not until January 2007 that al - Qaeda's media distribution arm , al - Fajr , released a picture of ...
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