The intense debate taking place across the world in recent months about the precise nature of and motivating forces behind ISIS is impressive and useful, but still incomplete. It will nevertheless allow all concerned to have a more accurate understanding of what this group is all about and why it attracts adherents from across the world. This is critical to developing a policy to defeat it. There is hope and despair here.
The hope is that the world is slowly grasping that ISIS is not a one-dimensional phenomenon that reflects intense Islamic religiosity, economic deprivation, social dislocation, anti-modern sentiments or any other such single ideas. The birth, incubation and growth of ISIS reveals the multiple reasons for how it has been able to reach its current condition of controlling territory and waging mini-wars on several fronts.
via Much more is needed to overwhelm ISIS — www.dailystar.com.lb.
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