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ISIS AND THE REALITY

ISIS is run by a deviant distorted strain of Sunni fanatics. They exploit raw emotions yearning for the delusional grandeur of a bygone era of Salafist Takfiri literalist ideological indoctrination. This worldview coalesces with some South Asian theocratic clerics, thirsting for the déjà vu of theocratic empire-building.  The Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Taliban Fazlullah faction, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Ahle-Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat are just some of the unsavoury terror organizations that were orchestrating deadly operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India much before the advent of ISIS. Prior to 2014, ISISSouth Asia was a mere spectator, but thereafter has become a spoiler of significant proportion. ISIS has been expansionist in South Asia since 2014. In initial maps released by ISIS Iraqi & Syrian head-quarters, the merciless death merchants of the Levant envisaged far-reaching geographical expansion whose caliphate was to span ...