The Jihad Is Wide and Deep

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | September 23, 2013 | David French

[LucianOfSamasota]

As we confront yet another weekend of jihadist violence – with 81 Christians dead in Pakistan, 142 dead after a jihadist killing spree in Nigeria, and 62 innocents slaughtered in a Kenyan shopping mall – we should remember three key (and infuriating) realities:

First, the sustained and deadly jihadist violence that has swept the Muslim world cannot be maintained without broad and deep support from the Muslim population. Tens of thousands of jihadists are recruited, trained, and funded from a much larger network of sympathetic Muslim civilians who share the jihadists’ goals but not always the same willingness to die. In other words, we are not dealing with some sort of criminal syndicate — like a mafia — but instead a full-blown religious movement with millions of adherents, millions more sympathizers, and a larger population that will bend towards the strongest force.

Second, these spectacular, large-scale attacks are supplemented by a grinding, low-level grassroots jihad against religious minorities in the Muslim world. Our European Centre for Law and Justice has an affiliated office in Pakistan dedicated to defending Pakistani Christians, and the incidents of spontaneous mob violence, individual retribution, and community-level retaliation against Christians are both regular and terrifying. It is depressingly easy to whip up a Muslim lynch mob on the flimsiest of allegations and rumors. Yet none of these stories make the international press. It’s just business as usual in a society increasingly overrun with jihadism.

[BCW]

That’s exactly what I witnessed while in Iraq...Islam is dangerous when you look at the internal divisions...Shia and Sunni are just the basic levels...it’s more complicated as one enters into the lower levels...there was never any peace...always death!