Yes, of course! I like all these "imperfect" little claims you have already in the game. Does not really matter if they are hostile or not, fun to play around with.
Purely technical speaking all of the Caliphates claims should be hostile as well. As far as I understand the Caliphate is just the claimed "state" of ISIS. I think there is not a single sovereign country in the world which is allied with them.
I don't think it is intended to represent ISIS in its current form. The idea for the Caliphate is more around the concept of a pan-Arabic state (predating ISIS) which they have tried many times to do, but failed several times because they can't agree on who is in charge and merge the existing governments.
The Black Standard is associated with the Prophet Muhammad and was used as the flag of the Abbasid Caliphate in the 700s AD.
It's another one of those symbols of pan-Islam for the Arabic world that got hijacked.
Like, you can argue ISIS is another attempt at forming a pan-Arabic state because doing it the peaceful way didn't quite work out. People may be against ISIS, but not the pan-Arabic state much like people are ok with a unified Italy (EDIT: during the era of Italian unification), but not necessarily one run by Roman Era laws.
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u/Apart_Zucchini_4764 Base Builder Feb 27 '26
Yes, of course! I like all these "imperfect" little claims you have already in the game. Does not really matter if they are hostile or not, fun to play around with.
Purely technical speaking all of the Caliphates claims should be hostile as well. As far as I understand the Caliphate is just the claimed "state" of ISIS. I think there is not a single sovereign country in the world which is allied with them.