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Wasteland
[DAWN] THE rise of the self-styled Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... seems to have left much of the world nonplussed. The threats it poses go far beyond the immediate concerns dominating the bulk of the global discourse, though. No matter how the story of this conglomerate of barbarism eventually turns out, one dimension of this threat that will prove enduring with absolute finality is that of its effect on history and culture. Last week, the self-proclaimed IS overran the modern settlement of Tadmur in the Homs province of Syria. The Syrian state media has conceded that pro-government forces have pulled out after "assuring the evacuation" of "most" of the inhabitants. Posted by: Fred 2015-05-25 |
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