Islamic State Editorial on Events in Mali, the Golan, Iran, America and Turkey

This week’s editorial in the Islamic State’s al-Naba’ newsletter takes its title from a quotation in the Qur’an (“That the one who has perished should perish upon evidence”), with the meaning of this phrase being interpreted as follows: God has made clear His path and the evidence for it, and so the one who has died should die while being aware of it, while conversely, the one who lives should live while being aware of it. The overwhelming point is to (yet again) highlight that the Islamic State is on the right path made clear by God, while its various opponents expose their own farces and idiocies in their conflicts with each other. The editorial comments on a various events in Mali, the Golan, Iran and the United States that have attracted attention: