After all, the religion story that shook the world in 2006 was the ongoing battle in the centuries-old war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
Hacking one another to death, blowing each other up, employing rocket-propelled grenades to level shrines sacred to co-religionists, Muslims demonstrate they can brutalize one another with a facility matching their ruthlessness toward Jews and Christians. Professor Salim Mansur writes: "More Muslims have been killed by Muslims, more Muslims continue to be victimized by Muslims, and more Muslims are in danger of dying at the hands of Muslims than non-Muslims." The number of casualties inflicted by Israel, in wars forced upon the Jewish state, is paltry compared with the millions of Muslims murdered by fellow worshippers of Allah.
While Islam is a belligerent, expansionist philosophy that flourishes in a culture of incitement, and while it seeks the defeat and destruction of other faiths and systems of government, its rampages are not confined to annihilation of Jews and Christians. Internecine warfare is rife, and not a day passes that we are not sickened by spectacles of intra-Muslim mayhem and Islamist rage, fomented against fellow believers in the Five Pillars.
