Islamic State

We are dealing with the threat from the Islamic State aka ISIS aka ISIL in the wrong way in the media. The group is falling into the category of a political/religious/insurgent group in discussions and news articles.  Islamic State, as they currently call themselves, is not any of these things.

It's an enormous, highly dangerous criminal conspiracy.  They are not political, they're organized crime on a vast scale.  The recent UN report on the group details their activities...child abuse, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, sex slavery, abuse of the elderly and infirm, systematic use of armed robbery...on and on it goes.  They seem to have no ethics or morality whatsoever.

Ordinarily I take a relatively pacifist approach to politics.  But this has nothing to do with politics. These people are simply criminals, and this is a law enforcement problem on a vast scale.  The UN report shows that they're guilty of many crimes against humanity.

If the world doesn't stand up to them, they'll just keep on growing like a cancer.