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The “Islamic State,” an Unidentified Terrorist Object
The “Islamic State,” an Unidentified Terrorist Object

Author(s): Xavier Raufer
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: islamic state;terrorism;

Summary/Abstract: Massive media coverage presents us with a picture of a single-entity network of “global partisans,” which we can call the Islamic State (IS), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, or the Takfiri. The aim of this study is to show that, while day after day we are told of the horrors perpetrated by this entity, warned of the threat posed to Europe by the imminent invasion of thousands of bloodthirsty moujahidin, and presented with terrifying figures about the size of its arsenal and “armies,” nothing is ever said of the heart of the matter: What is the Islamic Sate? What is its nature? Its essence?

  • Issue Year: 25/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 45-55
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English