“ISIL’s strategy is to split the world into two camps”
by digby
This explanation of ISIS and its strategy makes more sense than anything you will hear from any news broadcaster or hysterical politician this week:
Aly said that in ISIS’s monthly magazine, Dabiq, the group has admitted to taking credit for terrorist attacks it’s never funded in order to appear more powerful than it is.
He said that through a false image of omnipotent terror, ISIS aims to create a divide between Muslims and non-Muslims worldwide, leading to a “great war”.
“They want to start WWIII”
“There is a reason ISIL still want to appear so powerful,” he said, “why they don’t want to acknowledge that the land they control has been taken from weak enemies, that they are pinned down by airstrikes, or that just last weekend they lost a significant part of their territory.
“ISIL don’t want you to know they would quickly be crushed if they ever faced a proper army on a battlefield.“They want you to fear them. They want you to get angry. They want all of us to become hostile, and here is why – ISIL’s strategy is to split the world into two camps. It is that black and white. Again, we know this because they told us.”
And the right wing and the American press are doing exactly what they want. So predictably dumb. One might even suspect they want war too … after all, it’s good for their politics and good for business.
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