Family Values, Caliphate Edition
In October, the Paris special assize court tried three French families who moved to the Islamic State, children included. The mothers got between five and eleven years. The children had already served their sentence.
Jihad and the establishment of a global caliphate
In 2014, the Islamic State proclaimed a caliphate from Mosul; in Nigeria, ISWAP still calls itself one of its "provinces". These movements did not have to invent a doctrine: they quote one. Quran 9:111 says God has bought the believers' lives in exchange for Paradise: "they kill and are killed". Verse 9:29 orders war on the People of the Book until they pay the jizya, humbled, and 8:39 calls for fighting until religion belongs entirely to God. In Sahih al-Bukhari (25) and Sahih Muslim (22), Muhammad says he was ordered to fight people until they profess Islam. On these texts, classical jurists built a world divided between the abode of Islam and the abode of war. Today's jihadists claim to do no more than take them at their word.
