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.
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
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