In reality, the history of the Islamic State from its origins in Al Qaeda in Iraq, until its military defeat in 2018, is the history of the stepping stone strategy devised by Abu Bakr Naji in the Idharat al-Tawahus that we talked about in the first part of this article. The history of IS dates back to the 90s, although its modern form was born with the Jordanian jihadist Al-Zarkawi, who commanded AQI in the first years of the occupation of Iraq. Al Zarkawi was characterized by using extreme violence as an element of polarization between the Shiite and Sunni communities of Iraq and, although he was eliminated in 2006, the imprint of his sectarianism has survived to this day, and the fracture between both communities has a lot to do with it. see with that period.
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