Félix Tshisekedi is correct that the Islamic State (ISIS) doesn’t consider itself to have been defeated. It has lost in Iraq and Syria, but it considers itself to be only the latest exponent of a 1,400-year-old war; it will never give up, it will just move somewhere else and try again.
“Congolese President Cites Threat from ISIS, Seeks US Help to Fight Terrorism,” by Ashish Kumar Sen, Atlantic Council, April 4, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Islamic State, pushed out of its strongholds in Syria and Iraq, could seek to establish a caliphate in the heart of Africa, Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi warned in a meeting at the Atlantic Council in Washington on April 4. He sought a “strategic partnership” with the United States, one of the pillars of which would be military assistance to address the challenge of terrorism.
“It is easy to see how the defeat of Daesh, the Islamic State, in Syria and Iraq could lead to a situation where these groups are now going to come into Africa and take advantage of the pervasive poverty and also the situation of chaos that we have, for example, in Beni and Butembo, to set up their caliphate,” Tshisekedi said, referring to cities in northeastern DRC which have been gripped by deadly violence.
He blamed the violence in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on “local and foreign” armed groups.
Tshisekedi cited recent military intelligence that he said points to an “Islamic threat” stemming from the ADF, a Ugandan-led militant group based in the DRC….
mortimer says
Theoretically, the caliphate might do well in Africa, but they would prefer its original stomping grounds, no doubt.
Boko Haram is losing steam as a half-hearted government goes after it. Egypt won’t go for a caliphate there.
No Muzzies Here says
The ideology has not been conquered. All it takes is a few men reading the “holy book” and the ideology will spring back to life.
infidel says
Hear hear a zillion times
elee says
+1
gravenimage says
Congo President warns that the Islamic State could now “come into Africa to set up their caliphate”
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Certainly this could happen.
Eur says
Come? They are already there.
James says
What I do not understand, is why Western Christians make endless excuses for, and defences of, Islam. It is unspeakable folly to assume that ISIS is totally finished – one is reminded of the asinine rubbish about how JP2 supposedly “overcame Communism”. That must be why North Korea, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and China remained and remain under Communist rule.
gravenimage says
John Paul II has been credited in part with bringing down Communism in Poland, which I think is accurate. No one has ever claimed that he destroyed Communism world wide.