ISIS’s Strategic Threat: Ideology, Recruitment, Political Economy

by The New Middle East
August 17, 2014

ISIS' desire to unite all Muslims under a caliphate relates back to its Wahhabi roots that provide the foundation for its ideology, particularly the notion of the Unity of ‘God’ (al-tawhid).  Because only ISIS defends Islam against the West, it is incumbent on Muslims everywhere to obey its orders and support it on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria to attack its enemies in their own countries..