Tag: Wilāyat Khurāsān
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Reclassifying the Battlefield: Inside ISKP’s Delegitimization Playbook
ISKP’s Pashto pamphlet weaponizes doctrine to recode Taliban militancy as jāhiliyyah and claim a monopoly on legitimate jihad through bayʿah to a caliph. This analysis unpacks that authority-first logic, its recruitment function, and the border-collapsing frame that treats Afghanistan and Pakistan as one “apostate system.”
