Islamic State Editorial on the 2026 World Cup

Predictably, the Islamic State has used the opportunity of global attention on the 2026 World Cup to release an editorial on the event. Unsurprisingly, the Islamic State is hostile to the event (deemed the ‘scum cup’) given that it features the football teams of nation-states (a concept opposed by the Islamic State) playing against each other. The main points of the editorial are as follows: