Death Lovers

Over the weekend an IS affiliate bombed a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai. Many people were blown to bits. And when the survivors ran out of the smoking ruins of the mosque, men flying the black flag of IS were waiting for them. Travelling in a small fleet of SUVs, they used automatic weapons to pick them off as they ran for shelter. As many as 300 were killed, with hundreds more seriously injured.

Earlier this year, the world was shocked when a lone bomber murdered 22 people and wounded hundreds of others at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. This atrocity, however was far, far worse.

It seems odd that Muslims would want to murder other Muslims, but that’s the way it is with IS. They were the wrong kind of Muslims, and anyone who doesn’t follow the extreme Wahabi doctrines of Islam as propounded by the Saudi clerics who inspire IS, is guilty of the sin of shirk, or idolatry. And the penalty for that is death. If you, dear reader, are not also an adept of Wahabi Islam, they want to kill you too.

In World War II, there was no negotiating with the Nazis or Japanese militarists. They were intent on world domination, and weren’t interested in anything else. As a consequence, they had to be crushed.
I suggest the same holds true with IS. Anyone who believes in freedom of expression and the freedom to practice whatever religion they please, or indeed does not choose to adhere to any religion at all, should accept that the only way to deal with IS is to destroy them. In the Middle East, where I understand their grip on power is being steadily eroded, in Europe and elsewhere, where their foot soldiers lurk in their hundreds or thousands, plotting to commit acts of terror against the idolaters, that’s you and me remember, they have to be obliterated. They believe when they die 72 houris, or celestial virgins are waiting in heaven to supply their every need. Let’s help them get there.