Steve at Word Unheard summarizes an interview that al Qaeda's chief in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, gave to Jordanian journalist Fouad Hussein. Zarqawi "revealed what al Qaeda believes to be seven steps to achieving not only a caliphate, but total Muslim world domination." (Interview link here.)
Meanwhile, Michael Barone says,... "multiculturalism" is under sharp attack. Multiculturalism preaches that we should allow and encourage immigrants and their children to maintain and celebrate their own culture apart from the national culture.
These two pieces are related. In my ongoing essay, "The Forever Jihad," I explained how a genesis of a rift may be forming between al Qaeda and its larger, Islamist religious kin. But the rift, if real, is only one of tactics and techniques, not of goals and objectives. Islamism is not always violent and its adherents are much more numerous than belong to Islamist terrorist groups.
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