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(43,242 posts)of "disbelievers and apostates" of its sects and other religions who have sold out to Western values of government and business. No amount of mocking them, reinterpreting them as terrorists will make them change their momentum right now. They are putting their beliefs into action, and all others who block their way die.
Through their eight year old video and film production studios they've been working on encouraging the rest of the global ummah to get behind their establishment of the promised future caliphate, and it looks as though they might actually eliminate the nation state of Iraq. They are not to be taken lightly simply because, right now, we outgun them.
Republicans are thinking on this, and it behooves Democrats to pay attention to them and not spend time validating each other's rightness about jihad's wrongness when partisan foreign policy debates are looming.