The Salafi-Jihadist evil

Published December 24, 2018 9:19pm ET



Salafi-Jihadism ideologically underpins both the Islamic State and al Qaeda. Its adherents seek a world of domination in which all others either share their beliefs, or kneel in submission to them. But Salafi-Jihadism has an easier definition: evil.

I note this in light of the ISIS-related murder last week of two Norwegian tourists in Morocco. 28 year-old Maren Ueland and 24 year-old Louisa Vesterager Jespersen were camping in a tourist spot when a cell of ISIS fanatics decided to murder them. A verified video of one of the women’s murder shows her brutally inefficient decapitation.

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