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Who’s Afraid of the Caliphate?
July 7, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog •Who’s Afraid of the Caliphate?
Graham E. Fuller
7 July 2014
Huffington Post
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The astonishing success of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in establishing a “state” across north-western Iraq and north-eastern Syria in the last weeks represents an strategic watershed in the advance of jihadi fighters and their radical ideology in controlling turf in the Middle East. In political terms ISIS is likely to be little more than a transient phenomenon. But its declaration of a “caliphate” establishes a new ideological frontier.
The threat of a “caliphate” to the West was central to George W. Bush’s inflamed rhetoric in his Global War on Terror, invoked to justify the launch of several wars in his own “jihad” over the next decade. But just how fearsome a concept should it be to us?
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