Burning people to death. Didn't Christians do that a few years back?

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244. People forget what a Pope is.

We like to think of the peaceful Pope Francis, and listen to quotes from Stalin and Napoleon "How many legions can the Pope command." There was a time when the answer was all of them It's one of the big issues when anyone brings up the Crusades as an example of religious extremism. The Pope was a secular powerhouse at that time. If you owned land and ruled people, and weren't in Ummayyad Spain, you got your power from the Pope.

For Islam, and these Islamists in particular, the Caliph commands their legions. He doesn't have to call for a Jihad, jihad is something that you don't call for it's always happening, you only have breaks when a Caliph says that someone has entered the Dar al harb. Which al-Baghadadi hasn't done.

Right now the Muslim world is set up almost the exact same way as the Christian world was during the First Crusade, right after the Norman's kidnapped a Pope. They have no central structure, are split into two big groups, and every imam has the power to interpret with no agreed upon way to codify it all.