Two years after the French drove the Sharia regime out of power in Mali, the jihadists are still active. The fallacy of the analysts who predict that the “war on terror” (or whatever they call the defense against the global jihad these days) will last ten years, or twenty, or 100, is that they think it will actually have an end. It will not: as long as there are people who believe that the creator of the universe wants them to fight against and subjugate those who do not believe in him, the jihad will continue.
“Islamist militants kill seven Malian soldiers in dawn attack,” Reuters, January 6, 2015:
Islamist gunmen killed at least seven Malian soldiers near the Mauritanian border, a local mayor said in Monday, in a dawn raid that illustrated continuing volatility two years after France helped take back territory seized by al Qaeda-linked militants.
A spokesman for the Malian army confirmed the attack in the town of Nampala, about 520 km (320 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako, but declined to give details about casualties.
Oumar Diakite, the mayor of neighbouring Diabaly district, said the attack started at 4 a.m. (0400 GMT). “The Islamists were on motorbikes and some were on foot. They killed seven soldiers before they were chased out of the town around 11 by a reinforcement of the army,” Diakite told Reuters by telephone….
Angemon says
I, for one, would like to have a muslim and/or an islamist explain me the difference between a “muslim” and an “islamist”.
Salah says
The difference between a Muslim and an Islamist is that the former believes in Islam out of ignorance and/or fear and/or wickedness and perversion.
The latter believes in Islam solely out of wickedness and perversion.
pumbar says
You can never depict the M-Word in a bad light but you can, if need be, portray muslim violence against others by using the word islamist (often softened by words like restive, contested, sectarian, another round of civil conflict etc).
duh_swami says
Jihad must continue until morale improves and everyone worships Allah…There is no statute of limitations on the Quran. Islam is the three headed hydra, Allah, Gabriel, Mahound. It laid a big egg called Quran and when the egg hatched, millions of jihadi’s jumped out. They all gathered under Mahounds wings, and Islam was born. Only swords, spears, and arrows of truth can kill it. if that doesn’t do it, lead injections might work…No one said the Islamic hydra was easy to kill…