HAS the Islamic movement ‘IS’ chosen Mindanao’s city of Marawi as a ‘second front’ in its war on secularism, electoral democracy and the West?

IS would restore the religious and temporal leadership of a reunited Muslim world, and re-impose on it a unitary state governed by ‘sharia,’ or Islamic law.

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