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The war of terror being fought by ISIS has a parallel battle of information - a battle for hearts, minds and recruits on the one hand, and to amplify the terror and the horror on the other. And that battle is a very 21st-century one.
For their sustained frequency alone, today's string of suicide bombings continues to entreat our self-interrogation regarding any prior or contingent social marginalization of the perpetrators.
ISIS has engaged in takedowns before, often through proxies, and on informal channels like Twitter. Rarely, however, has ISIS used its own formal platform to so systematically insult Western clerics. The move speaks to its growing anxiety over recent battlefield setbacks.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Chinese chant declares, "Our dream is to die fighting on this battlefield."
The Maccabee war of our time is happening now. It is a war over the values that will dominate our world. Only the connection between us, as one man with one heart, can put out the black fire of fundamentalist Islam threatening to overtake the world.
Economic hardship is pushing families to decide between poverty, escape or joining the Islamic State.
It does not help much, for those few individuals who are attracted to an ISIS type of extremism, to completely and summarily dismiss or condemn ISIS. In fact, the more that ISIS is condemned the more appealing it can be for some who are precisely seeking a movement or cause that will stick it to the status quo.
