The Clash of Civilizations That Isn't [re: What ISIS Really Wants]

Posting the above link as a very popular article from The Atlantic entitled, "What ISIS Really Wants" by Graeme Wood [from 03/2015] has re-surfaced: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi....

Popular as it is [most popular Atlantic article of all time], the essay is deeply flawed - both in form [singular academic source, confirmation bias throughout, conceptual inconsistency] and function [dangerous fear-mongering, promoting racist undertones, serving as fodder for the far-right].

It has been criticized far and wide by other publications [besides The New Yorker, also in the New Republic, Salon, etc] as well as a number of academics in the U.S. including Princeton professor used as the main source in the article.