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Il decalogo di Vox per approfondire la minaccia portata dallo Stato Islamico.

If you want to understand the Islamic State, better known as ISIS, the first thing you have to know about them is that they are not crazy. Murderous adherents to a violent medieval ideology, sure. But not insane.

Look at the history of ISIS's rise in Iraq and Syria. From the mid-2000s through today, ISIS and its predecessor group, al-Qaeda in Iraq, have had one clear goal: to establish a caliphate governed by an extremist interpretation of Islamic law. ISIS developed strategies for accomplishing that goal -- for instance, exploiting popular discontent among non-extremist Sunni Iraqis with their Shia-dominated government. Its tactics have evolved over the course of time in response to military defeats (as in 2008 in Iraq) and new opportunities (the Syrian civil war). As Yale political scientist Stathis Kalyvas explains, in pure strategic terms, ISIS is acting similarly to revolutionary militant groups around the world -- not in an especially crazy or uniquely "Islamist" way.

Lo Stato Islamico raccontato da Matter attraverso i dati della sua avanzata territoriale e mediatica.

La storia di Hasan, in fuga dallo Stato Islamico attraverso l'Iraq, raccontata da ThinkProgress.

"I don't want to live in a city where ISIS is," Hasan said. "I don't accept their faith, I don't accept their ideas, their opinions. There is no city for ISIS and I. No city can hold us together."

Even over the electronically distorted crackle of a Skype connection, Hasan sounded exhausted. It was only 7:00 in the evening here in Washington, D.C., but he was in Duhok, Iraq, where it was almost 2:00AM. He had trouble sleeping, but not for reasons usually cited by young people in their 20s, such as late nights with friends or stress over final exams. Instead, Hasan, who requested ThinkProgress not publish his real name out of safety concerns, couldn’t sleep because he was still recovering from his narrow escape from murderous religious extremists.

"Life here... it changes the way you live," he said, his voice soft so as not to arouse slumbering neighbors or suspicion. "All the families that I arrived with have insomnia, so usually we don’t actually get to sleep until 6:00AM."

I giornalisti di Vice News hanno trascorso tre settimane in Siria, nella regione governata dallo Stato Islamico, che oggi si estende dalle porte di Aleppo fino all'Iraq centrale, documentando la lucida follia che guida la mano dei militanti fondamentalisti nella loro missione di istituire un califfato, gli eccidi e l'indottrinamento di una popolazione inerme, bambini compresi.
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Le recenti avanzate delle milizie jihadiste dello Stato Islamico dell'Iraq e del Levante sono solo il culmine di 10 anni di attacchi in Iraq.