The ease and swiftness with which the so-called Islamic State and the self-declared khilafat of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has attracted over 30,000 Muslims from 100 countries around the globe in just one year has surprised many. www.newageislam.com/radical-islamism-and-jihad/sultan-shahin,-founding-editor,-new-age-islam/religious-and-theological-underpinning-of-global-islamist-terror--full-text-of-speech-at-international-counter-terrorism-conference-2016-in-jaipur/d/106233