Even though millions of lives downstream are at risk, these lunatics are crazy enough to do it if they are about to be defeated.
Via Business Insider:
On July 27, ISIS published the latest release of one of their English language propaganda magazines, Dabiq, with the headline “The Flood.”
“It’s Either The Islamic State Or The Flood,” the cover headline continued.
The timing of the release could not be more concerning, as ISIS might actually have the ability to flood Iraqi population centers. Competing reports have emerged that the militant organization has taken control of the Mosul Dam, allowing the jihadists to unleash torrents of water that woudl reach all the way to Baghdad.
Aaron Zelin, the Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute, published the contents of the latest issue. The magazine is almost entirely dedicated towards ISIS’ self-justification of its extremist ideology, explained through an analogy comparing the group and its uncompromising vision to the story of Noah and the flood. A full PDF can be found here at Zelin’s Jihadology.net website, and parts of the magazine are extremely graphic.
ISIS claimed that the biblical flooding which Noah prepared for by building an ark was a “refutation of the pacifists.” As Noah faced no choice but to believe in God to survive, ISIS argues that people should have no choice but to believe in the group’s radical and broadly rejected interpretation of Islam.