Wednesday, October 30, 2019

What Baghdadi's Death Tells Us About the Real Terror Threat

The Islamic terror group, whose name means Guardians of Religion, had been listed as Al Qaeda in Syria in its Specially Designated Global Terrorist designation.

Like Marxist terror groups, Islamic terrorist organizations don't exist in isolation.

Even ISIS, despite its insistence that Baghdadi was the sole source of legitimate Islamic authority, was not without its state sponsors.

The root cause of the problem is not Islamic terror groups.

When we tried to shut down Saddam Hussein's support for Islamic terrorism, the Sunni and Shiite parts of the country fragmented into dueling Islamic terror groups.

Islamic terrorism is a fundamental feature of Islamic civic life at every stage of development.

Fighting Islamic terrorist groups like Al Qaeda or ISIS as if they were an isolated phenomenon is as pointless as insisting that every single Islamic terrorist is really a lone wolf.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/what-baghdadis-death-tells-us-about-real-terror-daniel-greenfield/

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