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August 27, 2014

War and the (Islamic) State

The struggle between AQ and the group now calling itself IS goes back a decade in Iraq, beginning with Sunni resistance to the U.S. invasion in 2003,
and, given the gradual decline of bin Laden’s faction, it was perhaps inevitable that the even more murderous IS would win out. Its message of uncompromising holy war against all enemies, from “infidels” outside the Muslim world to the many “apostates” within it, appeals to the basest human instincts and is intoxicating to angry young men who pine for murder, martyrdom, and glory. IS embraces the extreme Salafi vision — they are takfiris to use the proper term — of jihad for jihad’s sake, a fanatical fantasy of “pure” Islam that invariably kills more Muslims than “infidels.” The takfiri tendency lies in the DNA of the Salafi jihad movement, and has burst forth murderously on many occasions, most horrifically in Algeria in the 1990s, where the local AQ affiliate, the Armed islamic Group (GIA), was expelled from the “official” movement for its indiscriminate killing, just as IS was recently. The only difference now is that the world has noticed, with horror, the mass killings of innocents perpetrated by IS murderers in Iraq. True “shock and awe” in Iraq has been delivered by masked fanatics rallied around a black flag, not the U.S. military.
| The XX Committee

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 27, 2014 9:55 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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There are so many angry young men because, in a polygamous and closeted society, there is no prospect for them to be laid except by rape, or by the chance that the family can arrange a cousin for his bed, however unattractive that prospect might be.

Not long ago, when the British born Pakistani young men were continually blowing themselves and others up in public places, they were exclusively recruited from the ranks of those betrothed to first cousins in Pakistan.

I wonder if monogamy were a Greek plot to give every man a shot at pussy. At any rate the difference in the two cultures is and has always been stark.

Posted by: james wilson [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 27, 2014 11:27 AM

I don't care what they call themselves. Radical Muslims should be exterminated. Conservative Muslims ought to be killed as well. Call that collateral damage.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 28, 2014 6:36 AM

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