Isis could very credibly abandon the label of Caliphate and call itself the Fourth Reich”.
He added: “It has wiped out the civilian populations of whole regions and towns. It has pledged itself to the murder of Shias, Jews, Christians, Copts, Yazidis and anyone it can, however fancifully, accuse of being a spy”.
In a rare intervention in the discourse on IS, the Nobel laureate contributed a lengthy article to the mass circulation ‘Daily Mail’ on Sunday, in which he traces the historical context of Islam and the rise of the IS, which, according to him, is ‘dedicated to a contemporary holocaust’.Ī known critic of Islam, Naipaul, 82, has commented in the past in favour of Hindutva forces in India, and also participated in a political event at the Bharatiya Janata Party office in New Delhi in 2004.Ĭriticising the recent destruction of historical artefacts in Syria, Naipaul wrote: “Isis is dedicated to a contemporary holocaust. Noted writer VS Naipaul believes the emergence of the Islamic State consitutes what he calls the ‘Fourth Reich’, and has called for its ‘military annihilation’ because it had become the ‘most potent threat to the world’ since the Third Reich.
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