Native German here, you should always take things said by Todenhöfer with a HUGE grain of salt. He always reports from a ultra-left, anti-western stance of view. Also he is known for falsifying photographic evidence from Gaza to document israeli "crueltys". In the last couple of years, he also is one of the leading figures of leftist anti-semitism.

One of the interesting things that technology is doing is abstracting the concept of political group away from a certain geographic location. So Greens in Europe and Greens in North America can chat, share, and talk about strategies to change to world. Same goes for all sorts of other groups.

Here we have people with a common shared strong political/religious viewpoint assembling from around the world in one spot and declaring a new state. That's very unusual.

We see miniature versions of this in the states with "flash mobs", but the stronger the feelings involved, the more disruptive something like this can be.

I wonder if we're not going to see a lot more of this over the next few decades.

It mentions he is the first Western journalist permitted access but didn't Vice do an entire documentary from within IS earlier this year?

Essentially every country with a Muslim majority is an "Islamic state". Hence the title could mislead some.