http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/the-atlantic-the-islamic-state-is-islamic-very-islamic?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=950a5cc894-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-950a5cc894-123558369The Atlantic: “The Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.”
February 18, 2015 5:36 am By Robert Spencer
This is an extraordinary piece, as it represents one of the first, if not the first, mainstream media acknowledgment that what I have been saying all these years, and illustrated in detail in thirteen books, hundreds of articles, and tens of thousands of posts here, has been absolutely correct: that jihadis use the texts and teachings to justify their actions and make recruits, and make a case that obviously convinces many young Muslims, that they represent the truest and most authentic expression of Islam.
Will Graeme Wood be now smeared and derided as an “Islamophobe” and a “bigot” for stating these obvious truths? Or will his exaggerated confidence in what he calls “quietest Salafis” (not reproduced below) save him from that? In any case, this is a momentous article: it may (may) represent a crack in the edifice, a blade of grass poking through the concrete, a tardy surrender of at least one bastion of politically correct wishful thinking to the overwhelming force of reality. We shall see.
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