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by thesteamboat 3875 days ago
Expanding on this, the author writes:

> Da'esh's plan to take over the world isn't rooted in a theological destiny of Muslims; it's rooted in an explicitly political vision of conquest.

That is probably true of Al Qaeda or Hezbollah but Daesh's worldview is[0] rooted in Islamic apocalyptic theology.

[0]: See "What ISIS Really Wants" for a good analysis of this.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi...