...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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is worthy of it because the group will be eliminated and the dinar will be evidence of contemporary history. Its price today is around $130, and its historical value on the market may be double. It will be an important souvenir of the most horrifying organization in this modern era.
For ISIS, the dinar is not a currency but a message, as issuing currency indicates a state's illusory sovereignty. It is part of a propaganda battle to convince people that ISIS is standing its ground, and to differentiate itself from its rivals. The Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) uses the Turkish lira in the zones it controls, while the regime of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
prints its currency in Russia after other printing houses in Europe stopped printing it.
However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
the ISIS dinar is more a souvenir than a currency. States issue souvenirs during special occasions, but no matter how many women ISIS kidnaps from Syria, how much gold it steals from Iraq or how much oil it tries to sell, it will not find enough pure gold to impose it as a currency or to trade it for other products in the market -- unless it looted the gold storages of the banks in the cities under its control.
ISIS supporters claim the gold dinars express the stability of its governance and capability to develop its state project, but this is a big exaggeration. ISIS is suffering from the most dangerous crisis since it emerged, and its dinars will not save it. The number of parties to the international alliance against ISIS has increased, so it is capable of restraining and perhaps even crushing the terrorist organization.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's involvement in the alliance makes the latter complete. Ankara's participation may not be significant at shelling ISIS, but its approval and involvement mean that a real siege is now imposed on the terrorist group as several military operations are now being launched from Turkey.