Radical Mahdism, ISIS, and Marinetti's Futurism

Radical Mahdism, if it wants to take not the core engine of

Mahdism,

its hatred against idolatry so seriously on behalf of, of, of the

God, which is the future itself, uh, you w- you want to

actively destroy everything

of these proliferation of images.

And then we see that ISIS has ex- has

characteristics of at once Marinetti's futurism, right?

And by the way, if you don't know, Marinetti was extremely into this sort of

Islamic radicalism uh, as, as part of the, his fascination with

Orientalism. So there is this image of Marinetti,

uh, talking about the fascist, uh, futurist boys, uh,

who chase after death, and they are actually starting to share intimate

stories about the future under the lampshades of a mosque on an

Oriental rug. And then they, uh, start to run from the

mosque and chant, uh, uh, viva

future and chasing after death like lions.

Uh, so that, that sort of imagery is very quite, um,

similar to the sort of ISIS videos that ISIS use for

pro-