Reports to the contrary, the spirit of the Islamic Caliphate still lives.
Only now it lies with the government of Turkey and Tayyip Recep Erdogan, and is posited as a revival of the Ottoman Empire.
But first he must wipe out the Kurds and Armenians altogether, as they pose a great internal threat to the sanctity and security of the rebooted version.
We are fools. Islam is alive and well and progressing as planned.
Another crazy Islamic Group always emerges to take the place of the previous one.