The Apostasy of Patriotism: ISIS and the Nice Attack

This is scary when you think of people not believing in nation states or nationalism. It is very scary for the counterintelligence world. People may pass a poly, thinking not of national state but of religious state.
"The Islamic State is making the point that any kind of political allegiances and national pride are violations of Islam -- more specifically, that one is only a Muslim if one joins the Islamic State. In their pamphlet on "loyalty to Islam and not to the nation state," published in January 2015, they write that "patriotism is a form of great unbelief that removes one from the fold of Islam, and whoever calls to it or follows it or acts for its cause is an apostate from the Islamic faith."

The attack was also a campaign slogan for the Islamic State's cause -- Muslims, in its view, today have no excuse for celebrating national identities when they have an Islamic one of their own in Iraq and Syria. So long as we leave Iraq and Syria unresolved, we will continue seeing this view inspiring more such attacks in the future."