On September 13, I spoke at CPAC-West in Reno, Nevada. My 25-minute presentation, which follows, was titled "The Persecution of Christians: Past, Present, and Future":
by Raymond Ibrahim
The best way to understand the Islamic State (ISIS) is to see it as the next phase of al-Qaeda. All Sunni Islamic jihadi groups—Boko Haram, ISIS, Taliban, al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda, even Hamas—share the same motivations based on a literal and orthodox reading of Islamic history and doctrine: resurrecting a caliphate (which existed in various forms from 632 to 1924) that implements and spreads the totality of sharia, or Islamic law.
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