When you’re a bunch of homicidal psychopaths whose idea of a good time is burning a village to the ground, selling the women into slavery and using the children as soldiers, terms like “extreme” and “moderate” are extremely relative.
It’s like ranking serial killers as nice based on how many people they didn’t kill.
So every Muslim terrorist group is going to look moderate compared to some gang of Koran-spouting serial killers. And extreme compared to some other bunch of homicidal psychopaths.
When ISIS dominated the news, the media began insisting that Al Qaeda was now moderate and ISIS was extreme. Now it’s time to anoint ISIS as the new moderates.
On Monday, ISIS reportedly executed four of its members for planning a series of attacks against the jihadi group, which they accused of failing to apply Islamic law strictly enough in the areas under its control.
During the video, an audio recording of the four men was played in which they confessed to the charges. The men were all apparently foreign fighters from Turkey and delivered their confessions in a Turkish dialect.
They admitted to having planned attacks against ISIS in Iraq, Syria and “surrounding areas”, according to the paper, on the grounds that it was an “infidel organization”, and denounced the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as being “outside the fold of Islam”. Their grievance apparently centered around the fact that ISIS has not declared the entire populations of Iraq and Syria as infidels, and has collected money – via taxation and extortion – from “infidel populations” in those countries to finance its campaign.
It’s not clear if they mean declaring even the Sunni Muslims infidels, in which case we’ve hit a new level of crazy, but those are just details.
ISIS is killing, raping and dhimming its way across the non-Muslim population. And the differences between moderate and extreme often involve the treatment of Muslims rather than non-Muslims. Which is why the whole Takfiri thing is a non-issue to anyone who isn’t a Muslim.
Historically this is how it usually happened going back to the time of Mohammed. The Islamic revolutions ended up having to kill their way to some kind of consensus by eliminating their own Jihadists, much like the Communists had to do once they took power, or the fighting over dogma would never stop.





















