The Muslim world has tended to treat ISIS as an anomaly, to assert that ISIS is not Islam. Muslim-majority countries must confront the underlying problems within aspects of Islamic theology. ISIS’s goal has been simple: to unite the Muslim world under the black banner of the Khilafah (or Caliphate), and to establish their set of divine laws (Sharia) on Earth. Currently, the Muslim world is in a dark age, where freedom of thought is absent. The first step is to acknowledge that ISIS is indeed a Muslim problem that needs to be dealt with by Muslims.

Source: National Post October 31, 2017 14:37 UTC