Graeme Wood On The Islamic Nature Of The Islamic State

Here.

For some, a statement of the obvious. But for others, a revelation, and since it appears in a certifiably mainline publication, The Atlantic, it is likely to reach those who don’t, as a matter of course, visit the websites that might long ago have enlightened them. They need their information to come from a properly safe and sanctified source. So be it.

And his avoidance of the real prescription — to do everything to divide and demoralize, and then shrink in size, the Camp of Islam — is likely at this point too much to expect. But it’s coming. It has to. The question is how much time will it take to fully grasp what shoud be obvious, so as to minimize the harm done to the advanced Western world.