Quote:So did you read rfc's post (around page 6?) regarding the widespread support for Sharia law in many of these countries? Pretty sure that is in a lot of areas that are outside of ISIS control or immediate influence. Also seem to recall Bin Laden supported hitting US more than building a caliphate, so again, don't see the caliphate as key. And if you agree with what rfc seems to be saying (as your 'beliefs of the 1.6 billion seems to imply), are you saying we need to destroy or displace all of those 1.6 billion? Not quite sure what you are getting at. Nut jobs kill for a number of reasons, they did it well before ISIS, and will do it after ISIS.

Shariah, Islamic supremacy, and the declaration of a caliphate are not opposed positions. They are all aspects of jihad.


In the case of a caliphate it provides credibility or proof that the orthodoxy is true and that the leaders there of are to be believed and followed. That why you see the conversions of so many foreign fighters. It would be the equivelant of a Christian leader walking on water.


It provides direct incentive for jihad to spread Shariah.

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