“In every myth, the monster has a father and a mother. And so it is with ISIS: its father is George W. Bush’s America, and it’s mother is Saudi Arabia. The former provided it with pretext in the disastrous invasion of Iraq. This invasion was seen as a rape of the Arab world. It was based on a lie — the false link between September 11 and Saddam Hussein — and it destroyed the West’s moral superiority.”

Kamel Daoud
Algerian journalist and novelist