The Lessons of Islamic State
Attempts to Formulate the Islamic Alternative Will be Repeated Rituraj Mate: AQIS & ISIS approaches in India Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, a group that emerged in Iraq in 1999 and joined al-Qaeda in 2004,... ... tentative shape, Islamism, including its radical and extremist branches, is becoming of one of the informal poles of power. Islamic extremism will go full circle. Having failed to preserve Islamic State, extremists will focus on punishing their “offenders” ...