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Mis minu arust kokku tähendab seda, et ükski nö demokraatia (kohalik) ei suuda sunnide maailmas säärastele "ekstremistlikele" suundumustele pidurit panna (või siis neid endasse sulandada-neutraliseerida).

Early in 2014, Isis released one of its first videos. Largely unseen in Europe, it had neither the slick, cutting-edge professionalism of its later execution tapes nor the haunting “nasheed” music that accompanies most of its propaganda. Instead, a hand-held camera showed a bulldozer pushing down a rampart of sand that had marked the border between Iraq and Syria. As the machine destroyed the dirt revetment, the camera panned down to a handwritten poster lying in the sand. “End of Sykes-Picot”, it said.

Like many hundreds of thousands of Arabs in the Middle East, for whom Sykes-Picot was an almost cancerous expression, I watched this early Isis video in Beirut. The bloody repercussions of the borders that the British and French diplomats, Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, drew in secret during the First World War – originally giving Syria, Mount Lebanon and northern Iraq to the French, and Palestine, Transjordan and the rest of Iraq to the British – are known to every Arab, Christian and Muslim and, indeed, every Jew in the region. They eviscerated the governorates of the old dying Ottoman empire and created artificial nations in which borders, watchtowers and hills of sand separated tribes, families and peoples. They were an Anglo-French colonial production.

The same night that I saw the early Isis video, I happened to be visiting the Lebanese Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt. “The end of Sykes-Picot!” he roared at me. “Rubbish,” I snorted. But of course, I was wrong and Jumblatt was right. He had spotted at once how Isis captured symbolically – but with almost breathtaking speed – what so many Arabs had sought for almost exactly 100 years: the unravelling of the fake borders with which the victors of the First World War – largely the British and the French – had divided the Arab people.

Jah, selles mõttes küll on järjekordne totalitaarriigi loomise projekt käimas. Kõigile vastandumine ja maailmarevolutsiooni jutlus. Sellel on potentsiaali tegelikult veel enam kui bolševismusel, sest kogu Umma on ikkagi enam-vähem ühekeelne. Bolševikele tulid rahvuspiirid ette. Või noh, juba Tsaari-Venemaa, mida nad enda omaks pidasid, ulatus oluliselt kaugemale kui "vene maailm", muust Euroopast rääkimata.