Gods_FatherThat's not what Syrians are saying.
Syria is a fluid situation as you have Assad sympathizers, Kurds, ISIS, and FSA all fighting one another. But, that being said, ISIS has not seen an increase in land controlled, and has over the past 6 months lost much of the ground they had a claim over.
You cannot debate this, it is an actual fact. Check any recent news source, American or foreign.
californiagrownIdk man. Judaism only survived because the whole world had to tag team a relativly small Bavarian country. If you want to kill an ideology, ya just kill all followers, sympathizers, and related relics.
Judaism would have survived in the US (assuming that small country didn't try to invade them) and other territories that were neutral. Would much of the history been lost? Yes, but it would not have been completely lost.
It is not impossible to kill an ideology, but it is extremely difficult. Sure, thousands of years ago, hell, even a few hundred years ago, you saw some smaller ones lose disappear in the physical sense, but the ideology still remains through history.