Yes, ISIL is a terror-based insurgent army that seeks to establish a Caliphate, but the group's actual end goal is far from political: ISIL believes that, through jihad, it will bring about the Day of Judgment. This is not true Islam.
Interpretation
ISIL's motives are rooted in extremist beliefs rather than political objectives, misrepresenting true Islam.
Malcolm Nance's quote emphasizes that while ISIL, as a terror-based insurgent group, claims to pursue political goals through jihad, their true aspiration is to trigger what they perceive as an apocalyptic reckoning. Nance distinguishes their violent interpretations from the core tenets of Islam, firmly stating that their actions misrepresent the religion they claim to uphold.
In practice
In a discussion about terrorism at a university, this quote could be used to differentiate between extremist views and mainstream beliefs.
I come from an African-American family that is predominantly Muslim. I have had to covertly operate in parts of the Middle East and Africa. I've lived a Muslim life and prayed in Mosques, Husseiniyahs, and shrines where needed. One must respect Islam to understand Islam. I've read the Quran through and through a half dozen times.
Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.
I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.
I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was strapped down on an identical one at SERE. Waterboarding was administered as a 'stress demonstrator' to show that an enemy could make one say anything. And one does.
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
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