Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria carry their weapons during a parade at the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the border with Turkey. Reuters
Radical Onslaught: Body Count Mounts As Islamic Fanatics Wage Global War -- Perry Chiaramonte, FOX News
From the Middle East to Russia, and from Africa to Asia, the bloody tide of jihad is rising as increasingly fragmented terror groups battle governments and each other for power and property.
Daily reports of the terror group Islamic States of Iraq and Syria/Levant, or ISIS, advancing toward a caliphate in Iraq have supplanted equally horrific news from Nigeria, where Boko Haram slaughtered schoolboys and kidnapped girls to sell into slavery. All the while, terror attacks in the name of Islam have continued in China, where members of the Islamic sect known as Uighurs are suspected of mass stabbing attacks, and Kenya, where the Muslim terrorist group al-Shabaab murdered 48 people a week ago.
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My Comment: I commented after the death of Osama Bin Laden that even though the founder and leader of Al Qaeda had been killed .... the philosophy and ideology had not. And while many in the Muslim community never approved of the methods that Bin Laden employed .... a significant minority did .... and still do today. The global Jihad movement has only a few tens of thousands of soldiers spread out throughout the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Russia .... but they have tens of millions who support their cause and objectives, and as long as this situation exists .... global Jihad and the wars that it spawns will be with for us for a very long time.
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