🏴🏴📃 — To understand the growth of ISKP/ISIS-K in Afghanistan, one must first understand their beliefs and motivations behind militancy to be in such a place, even after the Taliban Victory against the NATO-led Coalition & the Afghan Government in the last August 2021, despite believing on it or not.

Just like the dispensationalist view and interpretation of the Book of Revelations by Evangelical Protestants that revolves around the Rapture, the 7 years of Tribulation and the Millennial Reign of Christ on Earth — which, so to speak, already has a huge cultural penetration in societies where this line of protestants have presence — the Hadith of the Black Flags has a huge and equal influence in the religious layers of the countries of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia

Belief that an Army or paramilitary force carrying as its symbol nothing more than Black Flags announcing the arrival or, in the view of some, "return" of a long-abolished & Apocalyptic Caliphate is widely believed in such strata, with an example of this being the massive flow of Sunni Salafist militants into Iraq and Syria from every corner of world when Daesh, after taking Anbar, advanced on Mosul and proclaimed its existence

Although for people with more secular views such an idea seems frivolous nonsense, an eventual takeover of Afghanistan, albeit partial, by ISIS-K/ISKP forces could give a Legitimacy boost and even an immigration wave of Salafist militants from all corners of the world as great as once seen in Iraq and Syria, this in turn is based on the Hadith on the Black Flags and the apocalyptic notion for believers in such a thing that the hour of confrontation against Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (Anti-Christ in Islamic Eschatology) approaches

Something to keep an eye on