ISIS rationalized their inaction against Israel by referring to the strategy used by Salahuddin al-Ayyubi prior to his confronting the Crusaders, saying they want to deal with the Shi’ah and munafiqeen to first fortify their position before attacking Israel. I have also seen people heralding the potential redrawing of borders in the Arab world as a step towards liberation and even a kind of precursor to the emergence of a new Salahuddin.
There are actually too many reasons why these notions are implausible, and why reference to Salahuddin is inapplicable.
From the actions of ISIS to the dissolution of the Arab states into smaller principalities, what we are seeing is not a process of liberation, but of enslavement. We are not seeing the emergence of a new Salahuddin, but of a new onslaught of Crusaders.
The Muslim world will become weaker militarily, more divided politically, more vulnerable economically, more distracted and diverted and divided.
Notice how the multinational corporations that dominate us are getting bigger and bigger, becoming more and more consolidated and concentrated every day, while the regions they seek to control are moving towards fragmentation and partition and dissolution.
This does not reflect the strategy of Salahuddin, it contradicts it.