Daesh are Islamic nationalists, their ideological soup includes a number of different ingredients, including takfirism (declaring every Muslim other than themselves as apostates) fascism (rejection of democracy, liberalism, pacifism and internationalism in favor of vitalism, military conquest and expansion) and salafism (romantic attempt to restore an allegedly corrupted Islam to its "original form").
Daesh are very similar to Nazis.
James these savage nomadic somalis don`t know what you are talking about.
What you are alluding to, is the 19 century German thought of romanticism and Idealism that has its roots in the "Volkish ideology"
One of the hallmarks of that ideology was anti-rationality and its choice of emotion and action over thought
The spread of that ideology was done by second rate academics and journalist.
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer
One ummah, one caliphate and one caliph; nothing wrong with that, but in their fascistic narrative it becomes tyrannical.
One of the things Volkish ideoloques of Germany did was missinterperate and misappropriated philosophical thoughts of prominent thinkers like nietshe and Spengler.
Spengler was once asked about hitler and said,” the only thing the furher read about my book is the title”
There is a concept in Spengler work that alludes to a coming of a “Caesar,” when money and democracy fail. Hitler miss-read events and made things into a self-fulfilling prophecy (messianic mind-set,) keep in mind, Weimar democracy failed and hyperinflation in Weimar was out of control, so in the mind of hitler and his volkiish brown shirts, its them that Spengler was talking about.
I made a thread why young Somalis and other join isis.
Spengler work gave a propethic undertone to Nazis and Islamic eschatology give those that join isis their delusional narrative
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Anglo Saxon james, there is more western influence within radical islam then Islamic tradition.
this revolutionary islamism is distopic by nature but it it aims for a utopia (doesn`t that remind you of communism)