(December 19, 2015 at 5:36 pm)Strider Wrote: Refusing to refer to them as a state simply denies them legitimacy, as if it really matters in their 9th century brains.
Actually, conferring upon them the status of a state would tremendously elevate their status amongst Muslims in general, and make it much easier for them to establish a less disfunctional civil administration. So it would matter a lot to them.