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ISIS’s Deadliest Weapon Is the Idea of Heaven

Posted September 19th, 2016 at 11:48 am (UTC-4)
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The idea of Heaven, the vision of Paradise, is ISIS’s secret weapon, the source of its willingness to fight to the end. Convincing fighters that Paradise is real, that it’s a certainty because they die as martyrs to jihad, is what made Islamic State’s military forces so fearsome, its suicide bombers so ecstatic.