Islam has its own unique view about foreign policy. The Khilafah’s dealings with other states is not on the basis of securing ‘national interests’ as per Lord Palmerston’s dictum. Rather its sole interest is to free man from the slavery to other men, and return human beings to the true purpose for their creation - the worship of our Creator, Allah (swt). So the objective of the foreign policy is to spread Islam by invitation (da‘wah) and Jihad.

Thus, what we would hear on the media about the dealings of the Islamic State would be completely at variance with that of what we hear of the existing Muslim regimes.