ALMOST like clockwork, the Islamic State (IS) immediately claimed responsibility for the deadly blasts at Jolo Cathedral on Sunday. This is a claim that cannot be taken at face value.

The IS has been reduced into an internet propaganda machine, and is now but a shadow of the once huge terrorist network that dreamed of establishing a global caliphate from captured strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

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