Food for thought.. One of my Team Leader's sent this out to my squad and I feel as though it should be shared here. Know your enemy.

That is quite the informative article, SSG (Join to see). Wow! A tour through Salafism and the various brands of Islam. Very interesting.

The author certainly sounds like he knows what he's talking about, and he says the best way to defeat ISIS is to slowly pound them out of existence, to take away their territory, which is central to their goal of a caliphate.

I do think ISIS is the equivalent of Jim Jones and his "People's Temple" - on a much larger scale - so this quote struck a chord with me:

"Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million."