The dictatorship of the proletariat, writes Dalrymple,
has given way to the establishment of the caliphate as the transcendent answer to the personal angst
of certain persons. Had they grown up a generation or so earlier, their kind
would have become members of the Baader-Meinhof Gang rather than Islamic extremists.
Rote Armee Fraktion (Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe); الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام — Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
