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M.N.: If not ISIS, then "Shmisis": Most Syrian rebels sympathise with Isis, says thinktank | World news | The Guardian: “If Isis is defeated, there are at least 65,000 fighters belonging to other Salafi-jihadi groups ready to take its place. “The greatest danger to the international community are the groups that share the ideology of Isis, but are being ignored in the battle to defeat the group. “While military efforts against Isis are necessary, policy makers must recognise that its defeat will not end the threat of Salafi-jihadism unless it is accompanied by an intellectual and theological defeat of the pernicious ideology that drives it.”

M.N.: If not ISIS, then "Shmisis":  "The thinktank, run by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, said: “The west risks making a strategic failure by focusing only on IS. Defeating it militarily will not end global jihadism. We cannot bomb an ideology, but our war is ideological.” ...  “If Isis is defeated, there are at least 65,000 fighters belonging to other Salafi-jihadi groups ready to take its place." “The greatest danger to the international community are the groups that share the ideology of Isis, but are being ignored in the battle to defeat the group. “While military efforts against Isis are necessary, policy makers must recognise that its defeat will not end the threat of Salafi-jihadism unless it is accompanied by an intellectual and theological defeat of the pernicious ideology that drives it.” Most Syrian rebels sympathise with Isis, says thinktank | World news | The Guardian Over '100 dead' as Turkey presses major offensive against PKK