#43 — What Do Jihadists Really Want?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 17 August 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Sam Harris reads from the latest issue of "Dabiq," the magazine of ISIS, and discusses the beliefs and goals of jihadists worldwide.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
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0:38.3	Well, as I said in my last podcast, ISIS just released a remarkable document in the
0:52.1	latest issue of their magazine, Dabik, which is named after a city in Syria where they
0:56.5	believe they will wait for a final battle against a Crusader Army and Usher in the End Times.
1:02.5	So I promised to discuss that in a separate podcast, which I'll do now.
1:07.2	The whole magazine is fairly astonishing.
1:10.0	I'll provide a link to a PDF on my blog, but I warn you that some of the pictures are
1:15.4	disturbing.
1:16.4	There's a photograph of a man getting his head cut off, which leaves absolutely nothing
1:21.4	to the imagination.
1:22.4	But I'm going to read some relevant parts of the magazine on this podcast.
1:27.4	And one thing that should alarm you is how well written it is.
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