The New Crusaders, Just like the Old Crusaders 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., expresses his feelings of foreboding in his column at the Chicago Trib.
Maybe it makes you want to scream the obvious to those who have grown besotted with conflating extremism and Islam: Extremism has no faith. But they probably won’t hear you.
For the dogs are howling for holy war, an apocalyptic clash of culture and faith. Yet as troubling as it is to watch extremists bicker over which religion has the better god, what’s most troubling is not the bickering, but the extremism, which is now ubiquitous.
Read the whole thing, so you can appreciate the eloquent desperation expressed in the closing line.
