The “Islamic State,” an Unidentified Terrorist Object

• Authors: Raufer Xavier
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Massive media coverage presents us with a picture of a single-entity network of “global partisans,” which we can call the Islamic State (IS), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, or the Takfiri. The aim of this study is to show that, while day after day we are told of the horrors perpetrated by this entity, warned of the threat posed to Europe by the imminent invasion of thousands of bloodthirsty moujahidin, and presented with terrifying figures about the size of its arsenal and “armies,” nothing is ever said of the heart of the matter: What is the Islamic Sate? What is its nature? Its essence?

Keywords

EN

"Islamic State"; Terrorism

• Publisher: Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
• Journal: The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 45-55

Contributors

author

Raufer Xavier