Feeding Friday's Fear

Bombings across Egypt killed at least five people. It is thought that supporters of the deposed Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi may be responsible for some of the violence, as al-Qaeda sprung forth from the Muslim Brotherhood itself, and Salafi terrorists, who are even more violent, radical, and uncompromising than al-Qaeda, launching the rest. The feature both groups of fanatics have in common is a steadfast devotion to Wahhab Sunni Islam. This is the same mentality that launched the September 11, 2001 suicide attacks and that motivates those intending to attack the Sochi Olympic Games. Those possessed of this ideology can not be negotiated with or reasoned with because of their strict adherence to a nihilist brand of religious devotion that demands submission and does not recognize the sanctity of life even of the believers themselves who openly profess that they "love death more than the infidel loves life", and they mean it. Either that mindset has to be changed by a reformation within Islam or we will never see peace.