PSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Al-Qaeda, Sharia
1 Nov 2016
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Isis as a revolutionary state - new twist on an old story. Isis: according to its leaders" statements, the group wants to . Impose sharia worldwide: unlike the original al qaeda, which showed little interest in controlling territory, the. Islamic state has also sought to build the rudiments of a genuine state in the territory it controls. A sophisticated propaganda operation: j rgen todenh fer - german journalist who visited territory in iraq and syria con trolled by the islamic state. We have to understand that isis is a country now : however the group is just the latest in a long line of state-building revolutionaries strikingly similar in many ways to the regimes that emerged during the french, These movements were as hostile to prevailing international norms as the. Provide additional opportunities for expansion: u. s. efforts to degrade and ultimately destroy the islamic state could. Reinforce its narrative of western hostility to islam.
