Cenk Uygur
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ISIS Leader Takes Dead Fighters’ Wives
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November 29, 2015
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3:03Now PlayingThe leader of ISIS may have a habit of sending men with the most attractive wives to die first. Cenk Uygur, hosts of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"The present-day Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in declaring himself the caliph and his mini state the caliphate, is communicating that he believes he is fighting on behalf of all Muslims worldwide. He is also implying the desire to continue ISIS's advance until it has conquered all Muslim-majority lands, an aspiration frequently expressed in jihadist maps of a unified Islamic empire.
For jihadists, the caliphates are the height of Islam's glory, the banner of a sort of Islamic nationalism. Framing your jihadist movement as the rebirth or continuation of the caliphate is a way of asserting the idea that all Muslims should be joined in one state, that they should be ruled by Islam (or more specifically, the jihadists' version of Islam), and that all other Islamic authorities and states are apostates.”*
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