The Islamic State

          The Islamic State is…an Islamic state.  What does something need to be a “state”?  Well, I would say that it needs to control a geographic area, to have a military force, to have an executive, legislature and a judiciary, to collect taxes, to provide for common defense and, sadly “to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do”.   To deny that the Islamic State is a state is fatuous.  It is what it is.

            And is it Islamic?  Well, they say so – they have named themselves “Islamic”.  They observe the practices of the Koran, run and support mosques in their controlled areas, have imposed the Sha’aria law, receive financial support from Qatar, espouse the same principles as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, are an offshoot of an Al Qaeda franchise, seek to drive out or kill non-Muslims, to fight what they call “apostasy”,  and they are supported by other people who call themselves Muslim. 

            We also believe that the Islamic State is engaged in every kind of horrible crime, mass executions, ethnic cleaning, forced conversions, sale of women captives,  genital mutilation and genocide, all in the name of Islam, as they say.

The facts here are confusing to the establishment, clinging to mantras of the Religion of Peace, so the establishment grasps for The Big Lie.  The Times reports that Laurent Fabius, Foreign Minister of France says that people should not refer to “extremists” in Iraq as the Islamic State, that they “do not represent Islam or a state”.  The President, now apparently the arbiter of what is and what is not Islamic has been on TV going one better that “no religion” could behave like the Islamic State.  Mr. President, you may have to say that but it’s not true.

            I don’t know who “represents” Islam, but these are not 200 guys on a mountaintop.   The Islamic state and their co-religionist Islamists control parts of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Gaza, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mali and a few other countries that don’t come to mind.  This is not proof that all Muslims are evil, but if 10% of the world’s Muslims are in or supporting these groups that comes to 100 million raving homicidal lunatics in the name of Allah which of course will require 7.2 billion virgins for the martyrs.

Like it or not the Islamic State is a state, and it is Islamic and, like it or not it has significant legitimacy in a substantial portion of the Muslim world.  This manifestation of the Religion of Peace is unmasked as a cult of death.