Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as quoted in "Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi resurfaces in audio urging supporters to join terror group", Independent (15 May 2015)
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Do not think the war that we are waging is the Islamic State’s war alone. Rather, it is the Muslims’ war altogether. It is the war of every Muslim in every place, and the Islamic State is merely the spearhead in this war. It is but the war of the people of faith against the people of disbelief.
— Islamic State
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Do not think the war that we are waging is the Islamic State’s war alone. Rather, it is the Muslims’ war altogether. It is the war of every Muslim in every place, and the Islamic State is merely the spearhead in this war. It is but the war of the people of faith against the people of disbelief." in the context of "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as quoted in "Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi resurfaces in audio urging supporters to join terror group", Independent (15 May 2015)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS; official name since June 2014), at times known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; ) or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS; ) and also referred to by its Arabic-language acronym Daesh (داعش), is an Islamist militant jihadist group and former unrecognized quasi-state that follows a Salafi jihadist doctrine based on the Sunni branch of Islam. It was founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999 and gained global prominence in 2014, when it drove Iraqi security forces out of key cities during the Anbar campaign, which was followed by its capture of Mosul and the Sinjar massacre.
About Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS; official name since June 2014), at times known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; ) or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS; ) and also referred to by its Arabic-language acronym Daesh (داعش), is an Islamist militant jihadist group and former unrecognized quasi-state that follows a Salafi jihadist doctrine based on the Sunni branch of Islam. It was founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999 and gained global prominence in 2014, when it drove Iraqi security forces out of key cities during the Anbar campaign, which was followed by its capture of Mosul and the Sinjar massacre.
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