Thursday June 4, 2015

I've Been Thinking:

Al Jazeera in Arabic ran a very unusual interview with Abu Mohammed al Golani, the head of al Nusra, the al Qaeda affiliate in Syria.

In the interview al Golani made it crystal clear that ISIS and al Qaeda are fighting each other and he sees no chance of rapprochement in the near future.

"There is no solution between us and them in the meantime, or in the foreseeable future. We hope they repent to God and return to their senses ... if not then there is nothing but fighting between us."

Imagine that. Al Qaeda is saying to ISIS that they must return to their senses and repent. Even al Qaeda thinks that ISIS has gone too far.

In the course of the interview al Golani also divulged that 30% of al Nusra fighters are foreigners and that some even come from the United States of America.

Al Qaeda / Al Nusra is seen as the more moderate arm of Islamic extremism. Many, many, people are joining ISIS specifically because they are so ruthless --- even more ruthless than al Qaeda.

What a world!

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