Islam's Civil War
Donald Sensing points out that al Qaeda is killing other Muslims at least as frequently as it kills non-Muslims, and explores what that means.

It is not at all clear that the Muslim world is itself awake to the implications of this fact. I have maintained all along ... that this war is indeed a religious war. Al Qaeda’s objectives are religious objectives, the restoration of the Islamic caliphate and the practice of pure Islamism, as they determine it, in the Arab countries.

Al Qaeda's war is not only against the West; in fact, I say that they are not even principally fighting against the West. Their primary war is against other Muslims. What is at stake are lives, human freedom and the very definition of Islam itself.

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