World War I-era colonial partitioning fuels present-day militant narratives of restoration

Evidence

After the defeat of the Ottoman empire in World War I, the French and British partitioned the Middle East into newly created countries. The militants claimed that the region had been carved up to prevent the formation of an Islamic state. They portrayed their military campaign as directed at erasing the “Crusader partitions” and establishing a caliphate. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2438

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how colonial-era borders become the grievance narrative that militant groups weaponize — parallels the identity politics threads running through reading on nationalism and postcolonial state formation.