Interesting to see what their five-year is for this new "Caliphate." Hopefully they will be destroyed way before this.
AUGUST 23, 2014 4:00 AM
The Arab Empire
There already is one, of course: Arabs are not indigenous to most of the land they control.
The Islamic State’s five-year plan
A map has circulated showing the Islamic State’s five-year plan: a caliphate that stretches from the Iberian peninsula to western China, including all of India, north Africa, the Middle East, Asia Minor, and southeastern Europe. It’s an ambitious agenda.
According to an Islamic State spokesman, the map doesn’t show lands to be captured but, rather, lands to be liberated: “We will die for [the caliphate] until we open those occupied lands from Jakarta to Andalusia.” Andalusia’s a big deal to Islamists, who see it as their high-water mark. “Spain is the land of our ancestors and we will open it with the power of Allah.”
This is a good time, then, to talk about a touchy subject: empires and occupation. Nothing angers an Islamist like an infidel occupying Muslim land. The political Left has a taboo along the same lines; no memory is reviled like those of the old empires.
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The Arab Empire National Review Online
AUGUST 23, 2014 4:00 AM
The Arab Empire
There already is one, of course: Arabs are not indigenous to most of the land they control.
The Islamic State’s five-year plan
A map has circulated showing the Islamic State’s five-year plan: a caliphate that stretches from the Iberian peninsula to western China, including all of India, north Africa, the Middle East, Asia Minor, and southeastern Europe. It’s an ambitious agenda.
According to an Islamic State spokesman, the map doesn’t show lands to be captured but, rather, lands to be liberated: “We will die for [the caliphate] until we open those occupied lands from Jakarta to Andalusia.” Andalusia’s a big deal to Islamists, who see it as their high-water mark. “Spain is the land of our ancestors and we will open it with the power of Allah.”
This is a good time, then, to talk about a touchy subject: empires and occupation. Nothing angers an Islamist like an infidel occupying Muslim land. The political Left has a taboo along the same lines; no memory is reviled like those of the old empires.
Continue reading at:
The Arab Empire National Review Online
