You want the simple one-sentence explanation for what caused ISIS?
Un post en twitter el 1-dic-2015,
por el libanés, arquitecto afincado en Londres, Mr. Karl Sharro[i], @KarlreMarks
You want the simple
one line explanation for what caused ISIS?
Here goes: the failure of the postcolonial elites to create
genuine democratic societies and foster a sense of national unity opting
instead for military dictatorships that eroded the potential for economic
and political development coupled with the historic mistakes of Arab
progressive parties and their appeasement towards autocratic rulers
contributing to the complete evisceration of alternative political frameworks
that could create organic resistance towards external meddling, hegemony and
outright military interventions leaving a radical interpretation of religion as
the only remaining ideological platform capable of mobilizing the
disenfranchised exacerbated by the global decline of universal ideals
and the rise of identity as prime mobiliser and enabled by political and
financial support from theocratic regimes aiming to shore up their
legitimacy and made worse by the collapse of the regional security order
creating the conditions for proxy wars and political, social and economic
upheaval intensified by geo-politically incoherent international meddling
escalating conflicts and leading to a perpetual state of chaos under which the
appeal of a revivalist religious-political order embodied by the caliphate
becomes attractive particularly when coupled with a millenarian apocalyptic
narrative. Simple.
Una única frase en inglés con 249 palabras.
[i] Architect, satirist and extremely bad cartoonist. Director of the Institute of Internet Diagrams. Mr. Karl Sharro, @KarlreMarks
