We can all parse our words about Islam --- Radical Islam -- the Jihadists -- the ISIS Caliphate; etc. etc. etc. The truth remains the truth -- the Muslim religion is flawed enough to produce a pogrom of normalcy unseen since the Crusades or the Holocaust.
Sunni or Shia -- holy or apostate -- Islam has given all the "crazies" in the world permission to act out their nightmares and inflict them on all of the rest of us. The world has witnessed this before: the rise of the Nazi's, the cycle after cycle of religious war in Europe, the tribal excesses in Central Africa, the murderous genocide of Pol Pot in Cambodia, and on and on.
The capacity of human beings to go beyond the norm into unreasonable anti-civilization is extraordinary. Christians are guilty of such throughout history: the Crusades; the Inquisition; the stances on lesbians, gays, and trans-genders; the stances on sexuality and birth control, abortion, and end-of-life! Now Muslims are trying to drag the world back into the Middle Ages: the time of ignorance and fear, and male control masquerading as religious piety, and violent jihad standing in for truth or love.
Stop parsing words -- fight the enemies of love and compassion; kill the morons who would reduce the world to animalism; stop the "crazies" on all sides!!!
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