THE NEW CALIPHATE - A WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL

摘要

THE STATUS OF MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT, THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR, THE ACTIONS OF THE ISLAMIC STATEOF IRAQ AND SYRIA (ISIS) SELF-DECLARED CALIPHATE, CONSTITUTE AN ISSUE OF SIGNIFICANTIMPORTANCE, THAT AROUSES INTEREST AMONG THE PUBLIC, GIVEN THAT DEVELOPMENTS IN THEAREA, TENDS TO HAVE GREAT INFLUENCES ON A WORLDWIDE LEVEL.CALIPHATE IT IS A FORM OF ISLAMIC GOVERNMENT WHICH REPRESENTS THE POLITICAL ANDRELIGIOUS UNITY OF THE MUSLIM WORLD, HAS AS A LEADER THE CALIPH, THE POLITICAL LEADER OFTHE MUSLIM COMMUNITY WHICH IS CONSIDERED THE “SUCCESSOR”, “DEPUTY“ OF PROPHETMUHAMMAD.THE APPEARANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST OF A NEW SUNNI FUNDAMENTALIST STATE, WITHOUTBORDERS, EXPANDING, SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP, CAN BE EXPLAINED BY THE VERYBIOGRAPHY OF THE LAST DECADE OF ITS LEADER, ABU BAKR AL-BAGHDADI.THERE IS NO QUESTION OF LAMENTING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SOME SUCCESSFUL INSTITUTIONSFROM THE HISTORY OF ISLAM, BUT THE ABSENCE OF A CENTRALIZED AUTHORITY, LEAVES ACOMMUNITY OF NEARLY 1.4 BILLION PEOPLE, A FIFTH OF THE WORLD POPULATION, IN DRIFT ANDVULNERABILITY.