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The advance of the IS-militias released a broad debate in the Near East over the causes of the terror: It is high time to ask what went wrong.

The triumphant advance of the “Islamic State of (IS)” shocks the Orient. Barbarians rage in the heart of the fruitful half-moon. Here the alphabet was invented, written here the first poems, here the oldest cultural and political roots of mankind lay. In this cradle of the civilization now bloodthirsty warriors of Muslims, Christians and Jesiden terrorize, them crucify and behead in the name the Islam, drive minorities out from their for centuries traditional settlement areas, destroy Islamic shrines, ignite churches and libraries, threaten with to the Shiites openly the destruction. This archaic barbarism, which the centuries-old polyglot texture and the middle east irreparably could destroy an approaching, has a broad and self-critical debate released among commentators and scholars, politicians and simple citizens of the region.

“Which the IS does, embodied exactly what we learned, tweeted at school” ironically Saudi intellectual Ibrahim Al-Shaalan. “If our curricula are good, then the IS acts correctly. If however all this is wrong, who carries then the responsibility?” It is high time, “that we asks oneself, what went wrong, says” the prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose voice at the entire gulf has influence. The invaders are “furious boy with distorted mentality and world view”. They trampled on the inheritance of centuries exactly the same around as on the achievements of the modern trend. All their convictions of politics, life, society and economy fit on two, three DIN-A4-Seiten. Tyranny with stability continues to confound Khashoggi: “All, those of a foreign conspiracy faseln, displace the truth and close the eyes before our own errors.” One confounded tyranny with stability, ignored one social pauperization in the peoples, the religious life is passive and inactive, religion serves above all the legitimacy of power. But nobody wants to admit own errors. And like that “the only one, which moves still dynamically forward, is the flood of the extremism”. Another perspective contributes Mohammed Habash, Syrian Islam scholar and former member of the parliament in Damascus. The extremism is developed from an explosive mixture, argues it, on the one hand from the “systematic suppression by tyrannical regime” and on the other hand from a “desperate religious discourse”. Many preachers, also it, would have their listeners again and again a fair world promised in shape of a “Islamic caliphate”, not defined as fallible political system, but as sacrosanct symbol of the unit, to which everything else must be subordinated. “Talking about the caliphate was always an evasion to justify around our failure, our defeats and losses and our inability to keep up with the remaining world.”