{"id":7367,"date":"2015-02-16T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/16\/what-isis-really-wants\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:52:15","slug":"what-isis-really-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/16\/what-isis-really-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"What ISIS Really Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Required reading<\/a>.  From The Atlantic<\/em>, by Graeme Wood.  (HT: Joel Hunter) Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Many mainstream Muslim organizations have gone so far as to say the Islamic State is, in fact, un-Islamic<\/em>. It is, of course, reassuring to know that the vast majority of Muslims have zero interest in replacing Hollywood movies with public executions as evening entertainment. But Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the group\u2019s theology, told me, \u201cembarrassed and politically correct, with a cotton-candy view of their own religion\u201d that neglects \u201cwhat their religion has historically and legally required.\u201d Many denials of the Islamic State\u2019s religious nature, he said, are rooted in an \u201cinterfaith-Christian-nonsense tradition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to Haykel, the ranks of the Islamic State are deeply infused with religious vigor. Koranic quotations are ubiquitous. \u201cEven the foot soldiers spout this stuff constantly,\u201d Haykel said. \u201cThey mug for their cameras and repeat their basic doctrines in formulaic fashion, and they do it all the time<\/em>.\u201d He regards the claim that the Islamic State has distorted the texts of Islam as preposterous, sustainable only through willful ignorance. \u201cPeople want to absolve Islam,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s this \u2018Islam is a religion of peace\u2019 mantra. As if there is such a thing as \u2018Islam\u2019! It\u2019s what Muslims do, and how they interpret their texts.\u201d Those texts are shared by all Sunni Muslims, not just the Islamic State. \u201cAnd these guys have just as much legitimacy as anyone else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Required reading.  From The Atlantic, by Graeme Wood.  (HT: Joel Hunter) Excerpt: Many mainstream Muslim organizations have gone so far as to say the Islamic State is, in fact, un-Islamic. It is, of course, reassuring to know that the vast majority of Muslims have zero interest in replacing Hollywood movies with public executions as evening … Continue reading “What ISIS Really Wants”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}