Thursday, March 24, 2016

PJ Buchanan: Is ISIS Faithful to Islam?





By Patrick Buchanan
“We are not at war with Islam,” said John Kasich after the Brussels massacre, “We’re at war with radical Islam.”
Kasich’s point raises a question: Does the Islamic faith in any way sanction or condone what those suicide bombers did?
For surely the brothers and their accomplice who ignited the bombs in the airport and set off the explosion on the subway did not do so believing they were blasting themselves to hell for all eternity.
One has to assume they hoped to be martyrs to their faith if they slaughtered infidels to terrify and expel such as these from the Islamic world and advance the coming of the caliphate of which the Prophet preached.
And where might they have gotten such ideas? ...