Islamist Violence and a War of Ideas (George Packer, the New Yorker)

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/10/islamist-violence-and-a-war-of-ideas.html?mbid=nl_Daily+%2834%29

In case you haven’t kept up, below is a very partial box score of global Islamist violence during the month of September:

Kenya: Militants of the Somali jihadist group Al Shabaab attack the upscale Westgate Mall in Nairobi, slaughtering visitors with grenades and machine guns, separating out some Muslims from non-Muslims, in a killing spree that ends three days later with an assault by the Kenyan military. Death toll: at least sixty men, women, and children, along with several soldiers and militants.

Somalia: Al Shabaab car and suicide bombers blow up the restaurant the Village in Mogadishu for the third time. Death toll: fifteen patrons and staff.


Pakistan: Suicide bombers detonate themselves outside a Protestant church in Peshawar. Death toll: eighty-five.

A remote-control bomb explodes on a bus carrying government employees near Peshawar. Death toll: nineteen.

A remote-control bomb explodes in an old, crowded marketplace in Peshawar. Death toll: thirty-seven.

. . . much more

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/10/islamist-violence-and-a-war-of-ideas.html?mbid=nl_Daily+%2834%29

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1. Quick, please smear the author as an "Islamophobe" so we don't have to think about this