http://www.socialmatter.net/2014/08/30/signalling-caliph-neoreaction-iraq-islamic-state/ Not Your Grandfather's Conservatism Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.7 http://www.socialmatter.net/2014/08/30/signalling-caliph-neoreaction-iraq-islamic-state/#comment-2391 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:13:41 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=562#comment-2391 You assume that IS would not have come about without Cathedral intervention and the overthrow of Saddam. This strikes me as an unfair assumption. The Saudis have been exporting Salafism to all corners of the world for decades now. Eventually the Salafists would have made a play, likely in Iraq or Syria (there’s no way Saddam’s insane sons could have held power for long). This tide was rising, and I’m glad it’s happening over there instead of in the West.

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