Attracted the recruit. Its also important to note that there was a kind of ideological framework that had been laid before isis ever came into being. There was a sense that there was need for a muslim government in a particular form that was answered by the construction of a caliphate. So i have spoken to many people who have been supportive of the group, some of of who have gone to the group to fight, and they would say that the idea of a caliphate, a unified government for all sunni muslims, was something they had wanted for a long time, and it answered a kind of deep longing, especially for the foreign fighter element of this, i think its important to see that this was in some ways a long time coming. It was satisfying something theyd been thinking about and that they had in some cases been intellectually developing for a long time. And that also, and its important also to note, was a revival of a kind of practice of political islam that really was left behind by many of the jihadis
Attracted the recruit. Its also important to note that there was a kind of ideological framework that had been laid before isis ever came into being. There was a sense that there was need for a muslim government in a particular form that was answered by the construction of a caliphate. So i have spoken to many people who have been supportive of the group, some of of who have gone to the group to fight, and they would say that the idea of a caliphate, a unified government for all sunni muslims, was something they had wanted for a long time, and it answered a kind of deep longing, especially for the foreign fighter element of this, i think its important to see that this was in some ways a long time coming. It was satisfying something theyd been thinking about and that they had in some cases been intellectually developing for a long time. And that also, and its important also to note, was a revival of a kind of practice of political islam that really was left behind by many of the jihadis