{"id":49595,"date":"2015-02-16T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T20:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/16\/gimme-that-ol-time-religion-islamist-style.html"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:23:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:23:27","slug":"gimme-that-ol-time-religion-islamist-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/16\/gimme-that-ol-time-religion-islamist-style.html","title":{"rendered":"Gimme that Ol&#039; Time Religion (Islamist style)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deep dive on what the Islamic State \/ ISIS \/ ISIL is all about, what it wants, and why that&#39;s both somewhat comforting (as it&#39;s a rather brittle setup) and terrifying (bad stuff is going to continue to happen for a while).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2015\/02\/what-isis-really-wants\/384980'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/QGOKGGTjGqYSN8kyNJV7ujuGx47JcNNTOUt1w0smEmSCO0TaJQm_4b1qO-EuFC-KF5Qn1b9WraX_lMUoNxjMdpRbBS7qTagvxIavwRoagX9QzvKLSpbzRZvfFtDeB6pvCDh9HAXtyEDyMRMsv3cH40k=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/features\/archive\/2015\/02\/what-isis-really-wants\/384980'>What ISIS Really Wants<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here&rsquo;s what that means for its strategy&mdash;and for how to stop it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Zg6DeHAmxs6'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deep dive on what the Islamic State \/ ISIS \/ ISIL is all about, what it wants, and why that&#39;s both somewhat comforting (as it&#39;s a rather brittle setup) and terrifying (bad stuff is going to continue to happen for a while). What ISIS Really Wants The Islamic State is no mere collection of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/16\/gimme-that-ol-time-religion-islamist-style.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gimme that Ol&#039; Time Religion (Islamist style)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,378,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-intolerance-persecution","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128820,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/the-not-so-religious-fanatics-of-daesh.html","url_meta":{"origin":49595,"position":0},"title":"The not-so-religious fanatics of Da&#8217;esh","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Nov-15 1:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"(Or ISIS \/ ISIL \/ etc.)Actually, reading these account of interviews with captured and convicted Da'esh fighters, I was reminded most of what I read about entry into gangs.'They are children of the occupation, many with missing fathers at crucial periods (through jail, death from execution, or fighting in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44911,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/islamicist-scumbags-by-any-other-name-would-smell-as-foul.html","url_meta":{"origin":49595,"position":1},"title":"Islamicist scumbags by any other name would smell as foul","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Sep-14 3:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"ISIS? 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