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The author of the explosive Atlantic cover report "What ISIS Really Wants" has written the definitive, electrifying consideration of the strategy, mindset, and theology traveling the Islamic Point out. Tens of thousands of women and men have gone comfortable, privileged lives to join the Islamic Point out and kill for this. To them, its assault is beautiful and holy, and the caliphate a fulfillment of prophecy and the only real place on earth where they can live and pass away as Muslims. The Method of the Strangers is an intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State's true believers. Through the pavements of Cairo to the mosques of London, Real wood interviews followers, recruiters, and sympathizers of the group. We meet an Egyptian tailor who once made bespoke suits for Paul Newman and today wants to have, finally, under Shariah; a Japanese convert who is convinced that the eradication of borders - one of the Islamic State's proudest successes - is a spiritual imperative; and a alluring, garrulous Australian preacher who translates the group's sermons and risks into English and it is accused of recruiting for the organization. We also learn about a prodigy of Islamic rhetoric, now stripped of the citizenship of the country of his beginning and motivated to see it drenched in blood vessels. Wood talks with non-Islamic Point out Muslim scholars and jihadists, and explores the group's idiosyncratic, coherent approach to Islam. The Islamic Point out is bent on murder and apocalypse, but its enthusiasts find so this means and fellowship in its utopian desire. Its first caliph, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, has announced that he's the sole reputable expert for Muslims worldwide. The theology, legislation, and emotional appeal of the Islamic Point out are key to understanding it - and predicting what its enthusiasts will do next. Through character review and analysis, Real wood offers a clear-eyed look at a motion that has influenced so many people to reject or uproot their own families. Many seek death - and they will be the terror threat of the next decade, as they punch back against the countries fighting their caliphate. As Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower up to date our understanding of Al Qaida, Graeme Wood's The Method of the Strangers will shape how we see a new generation of terrorists.
