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Inaugural ‘state of the caliphate’ address met with blank stares from pyramid of severed heads

By Duffel Blog Staff · Bureau · 1 minute

Filed 5 October 2022 · 1539

RAQQA, Syria – Sources confirmed that today’s momentous first "State of the Caliphate" address was met with underwhelming indifference by both the audience in attendance and a handful of crickets.

Despite the fiery rhetoric and impassioned delivery of Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the highly-anticipated speech marking the Islamic State’s first year as a worldwide Islamic caliphate appears to have fallen upon deaf ears.

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