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An Insight into ISIS Thinking :Part 1

A.Muqeet khan

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he Cruelty of ISIS know no bounds, From strangling women to death to slaughtering Infants, From Beheading the men to burning the ill fated. They have crossed all roads and all lines leaving people like us to contemplate the limit of human brutality.

Brutality is a core of Isis’ ideological nuclei,Not the Chemical weapons nor the missiles nor the scuds they may have acquire, their main weapon of war is fear: Fear of rising against them, fear of taking a stance against them. fear of even opposing them secretly.

To be able to understand the ISIS you need to look into the books they are reading, observe the Jihadi literature they are following, understand the ideology they preach,even more importantly the war strategy they are opting for.

One of the books “The Management Of Savagery” is perhaps only text out there that provides a roadmap on how to establish a caliphate and it seems that ISIS is really following this book as part of its its curriculum.

According to the book the centerpiece of any super power is the central that lies on the strong base of society. destroy that base and you can accelerate the demise of the super power.

the Book states.

This overwhelming power is also assisted by the cohesion [tamĆsuk] of the society in the central country and the cohesion of that society’s institutions and sectors. The overwhelming military power (weapons, technology, fighters) has no value without the cohesion of society and the cohesion of (society’s) institutions and sectors. But this overwhelming military power may become a curse to this great superpower if the cohesion of society [literally “the social entity”] collapses.​

Basically what the author is trying to argue is that the superpowers have immense immense military power . Using this power and the media projections they can influence the weaker countries to abide by them. and follow their leads like Dogs on leash. If they don’t obey intense media pressure with the political power of sanctions are applied to either force that country’s rulers to submission or create a chaos for new ruler to step in. How ever such overwhelming power is dependant on the country’s internal equilibrium.Without this equilibrium The money, war machines and manpower has no value.

This means that to break a super power you need to break the cohesion of that society or for the lack of better analogy “make the centrifugal forces far stronger then centripetal forces.

To achieve this the author further argues

Several elements that cause the collapse of this entity are summarized in the statement, “elements of cultural/civilizational annihilation” such as the corruption of religion moral collapse, social inequities, opulence selfishness, giving priority to (worldly) pleasures, the love of the world over all values, etc. Whenever a large mixture of these elements are combined within the superpower and those elements mix in such a way that they energize each other, that superpower’s speed of collapse increases. Whether these elements are actively present or latent, they need an assisting element to activate them and cause the downfall of that superpower and its centralization (of power), no matter how much military power it possesses​

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ISIS is neither a superpower nor targeting a super power, actually it is targeting the most vulnerable regional powers in the middle east. So, I think it is abiding by another book called the animal kingdom which shows in wild life documentaries how the fiercest animals take on an prioritize the weakest pray.
 
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