

Muslim on Muslim Jihad



At least 305 civilians were killed when ISIS bombed a Sufi Mosque in the Sinai village of al-Rawdah and opened fire on the panicked crowd

How can one make sense of this Muslim slaughter of Muslims?

Read this analysis by Raymond Ibrahim of the Middle East Forum.

His conclusions include

Islamic State does not view its victims as Muslims. Indeed, mainstream Sunni Islam - the world's dominant strand of Islam which 90 percent of the world's Muslims, including ISIS, adhere to - views all non-Sunnis as false Muslims; at best, they are heretics who need to submit to the "true Islam."

This is largely how Sunnis view Shias and vice versa - hence their perennial war. While Western talking heads tend to lump them all together as "Muslims" - thus reaching the erroneous conclusion that ISIS is un-Islamic because it kills "fellow Muslims" - each group views the other as enemies.

Overall, then, when Sunni jihadis slaughter Shias - or Sufis, Druze, and Baha'i - they do so under the exact same logic as when they slaughter Christian minorities, or European, American, and Israeli citizens: all are infidels who must either embrace the true faith, be subjugated, or die.



Muslims have been slaughtering Muslims on the accusation that they are "not Islamic enough" or the wrong "kinds" of Muslims from the start: So what can the open non-Muslim, such as the Western infidel, expect?


Posted 02/12/17
