Contrary to Heavy’s headline, this is not really a new map: it dates from at least last September. Is the Islamic State likely to reach its goals? No. Is it likely to murder a great many people while trying? Yes.
“‘ISIS’ Tweets New Map of 5-Year Plan for World Conquest,” by Sam Prince, Heavy, December 10, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
A new map purportedly released by the Islamic State shows Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East drawn-up to show the lands it plans dominate within five years. The map spans countries from Spain in the west to China in the east and includes the new names of the familiar lands if the terrorist state’s “caliphate” prevails….
Along with the map of a conquered Europe, an ISIS affiliated account also tweeted out the above image showing an outline of the United States filled with the black banner, the flag of Daesh.

Jay Boo says
This is why Obama refers to ISIS as (ISIL).
Obama refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist by gleefully accepting thee “Levant” designation.
Angemon says
Huh, “new names”? The name Al-Andalous dates back to the 8th century, and I bet the names they give to the other regions aren’t new either.
gravenimage says
Exactly so, Angemon. Much of the territory on this map has long been Muslim–but the Iberian peninsula, Greece, the Balkans, Israel, and Georgia are all places that Mohammedans conquered and where Infidels bravely fought back and *regained* their land.
Muslims never want to to let go of a single place they have bloodily held–they consider it theirs in perpetuity.
Gene says
Well, at least they didn’t include Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Souther France, and parts of Italy. All of which were at one time under Muslim control and subject to the goal or reconquest. It is unfortunate that the West only has a collective memory that goes back ten years. I we people knew the actual history of Islam over the last 1400, there would be a universal demand to put an end to Muslim immigration and to end the threat before it’s too late.
gravenimage says
That’s next, Gene–remember, this is only a five-year plan.
bernie says
Parts of France and Italy (as well as other parts of Western Europe) are under de facto Muslim control right now, it would seem.
Mathew Solo says
“Is the Islamic State likely to reach its goals? No.”
But The Islamic State Movement could be obsorbed by a Real Middle East Wide Caliphate.
Mohamed Bouazizi was trying to support his family as a street vendor when Tunisian police confiscated his vegetable cart and produce…In protest…he burned himself to death in an act that sparked a wave of protests leading to the toppling of Tunisia’s 26-year-old Ben Ali regime…so the story goes.
This set off a series of further protests across the Middle East in what some have called the Tunisian Wind…Did the Tunisian Wind become a Storm of Radical Islamism that will change the political and social landscape of the Middle East…Commentators struggle to find a context.
But do they recognize the likelihood…the danger…that more Islamist governments may be on the horizon…Islamist political philosophy advocates the rule of nations (and eventually the whole world…through conversion or conquest) by the many centuries of Sharia law built on the foundation of the Muslim holy book…the Qu’ran.
Frequently…when Muslim-majority nations have the opportunity to hold democratic elections to choose their government…they elect Islamist candidates…even when those candidates oppose the very democracy that allowed their election.
When voters in the Palestinian Authority territories chose members of the Palestinian Legislative Council…A plurality voted for Hamas…Since then…Hamas has gained strength among Palestinians…few believe that the organization is truly committed to democracy…Votes or not…it is assumed…Hamas will continue to press its agenda of Islamist theocracy and Sharia law…a Caliphate in miniature.
Iran is an Islamic republic…with an Islamic constitution…It wasn’t until the impeachment of secular President Abulhassan Banisadr…that clerical dominance in the Iranian regime became clear…Iran Strongly Influences Iraq…Syria…and Lebanon…and anywhere it can.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan…currently Prime Minister of Turkey…a radical Islamist…He once quipped (Democracy is like a streetcar…You ride it until you arrive at your destination and then you step off).
In Egypt…95 percent of Muslims said that it is good for Islam to play a large role in politics…80 percent said that it would be bad for Islam to play a small role in politics…It is little wonder that Muslims frequently vote for Islamist parties when they are permitted a choice.
Saudi Arabia…Kuwait…Bahrain…Yemen…the United Arab Emirates…Are Islamic Governments and have regional influence.
The term Caliphate means the dominion of a Caliph and refers to the system of government originally established under Islam…Under the Caliphate…the head of state is the Caliph who governs in accordance with Islamic law…also known as Sharia…a major event could cause most of these countries to elect a Caliph…and declare a Caliphate.
So…will the Tunisian Wind gain force and become an Islamist Storm…is it a major step to go from dictatorship to Sharia law…and an even to go from Sharia law to a Caliphate…but support for such a development seems widespread across the Middle East…Middle East use of democracy…is leading some in the West to envision Western-style democracies taking root…However…we should remember that under Sunni Islam…the Caliph is elected…A democratic restoration of the Caliphate may now be thinkable.
Many people today are unaware of the long history of violent conflict between Europe and the Islamic Caliphate.
If a regional Caliphate is established in the Middle East…it can have an effect on the collective identity of the Europeans…The trauma of those wars lies deep in the conscious of Europe’s history…It has been less than 300 years since Europe last faced the threat of Muslim invasion…a threat that was instrumental in the formation of a shared European identity throughout the Middle Ages…Now there is again a perceived and stated threat from Islamists…as Muslim extremists call for holy war and restoration of the Caliphate.
Hassan al-Banna…the founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood…wrote (Andalusia [the Muslim name for Spain]…Sicily…the Balkans…south Italy…and the Roman sea islands were all Islamic lands that have to be restored to the homeland of Islam…it is our right to restore the Islamic Empire its glory)…If the Islamic Caliphate is restored…it can have an effect on Europe…The religious winds that are blowing across the Middle East can blow across Europe as well.
For more than 30 years…an uneasy peace has been maintained between Egypt and Israel…But has it been a popular peace…We should remember that…because of his efforts for peace…Egypt’s Sadat was assassinated…by a group of Islamist nationalists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood…who are kept out of power…for now…by the Military leadership imposed on the country.
God prophesied that in the decades just prior to Christ’s return…the Jews will have returned to Judea and Jerusalem…where they will be opposed by the surrounding nations… “In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place—Jerusalem” (Zechariah 12:6)…
In past decades…this remarkable prophecy has been fulfilled before our eyes.
The Bible reveals that later in this same time period…a great religio-political power will arise…in Europe….the same Europe (North of Jerusalem) that was threatened by attacks from the Caliphate for more than a thousand years…This power will be an alliance of nations or groups of nations…(Daniel 2:31–46)…This power will be involved in a treaty that will allow the Jews to resume their sacrifices somewhere at or around the Temple Mount (Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:4).
Such a revival of this Jewish practice would galvanize Muslim opposition…yet preparations for those sacrifices are being made today by Orthodox Jews familiar with the ancient rituals.
Biblical prophecy also reveals that a power will arise…to the south of Jerusalem ( either Saudi Arabia or Egypt will have this caliph leadership which controls the whole Caliphate)…that will “push at” or provoke this powerful king of the north…The northern power will defeat this king of the south powerfully…and in the process Jerusalem will be overrun and occupied (Daniel 11:40–45).
Finally…when the Temple Mount sacrifices are stopped…the prophesied Great Tribulation will begin…culminating with the return of Jesus Christ.
So a Substantial Caliphate will form in the Middle East…it will cause a serious conflict…with a power far greater than its own…it will be completely defeated…
so says the Bible.
Personally…I am Going with What the Bible says.
bernie says
The dumbest thing that the Europeans ever did was allowing ultra-nationalism to get the better of them, and throw themselves into two World Wars (not just the Germans, but the French, Brits, Russians and several other countries were also to blame). Read the book “Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War” by Patrick Buchanan.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… Is the Islamic State likely to reach its goals? No. Is it likely to murder a great many people while trying? Yes…”
That’s the measure; not the territory held but the sheer numbers of people enslaved by the ISIS conquests. Islam is obsessed with the control of territory while it puts little value on the welfare of individuals trying to survive and get on with their lives.
dumbledoresarmy says
dumbledoresarmy says
The same piece I linked above, but this time performed by a little Jewish lad, Daniel Reich, in Jerusalem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sjqoYCm10
The other piece that cuts across the 23rd Psalm (The Lord is My Shepherd…I will fear no evil…) is a setting of Psalm 2, “why do the heathen rage, and the nations imagine a vain thing? He [that is, YHWH, the Holy One of Israel] that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh…”.
YHWH *will* have the last laugh upon the murderous megalomaniacal thugs of Islamic State.
RT says
Don’t worry…..like the great socialist Utopia of the future….it will work out better this time than the last Caliphate!
“Islam has always been a part of America”……Pres. Obama
http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-Tripoli-Pirates-Forgotten/dp/1591848067/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450223368&sr=8-1&keywords=jefferson
“It is not therefore strange, that ever since the religion of Mahomet appeared in the world, the espousers of it, particularly those under the Turkish emperor, have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations ; rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth: that numberless cities are rased from the foundation, and only their name remaining : that many countries which were once as the garden of God, are. now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished away from the earth ! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of humankind!”…….John Wesley
https://archive.org/stream/themurderoustyra00toyniala/themurderoustyra00toyniala_djvu.txt