Jihadis have fallen under spell of age-old illusion
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The jihadists have it all wrong and can't see it. The same tragic horror has played out time and again over millennia. Having never read the Koran, I have no interpretation. Still, after studies in comparative religion, I can comment on Sufism, the mystic
The jihadists are not extremists. They have betrayed the spirit, the essence of religion, which is freedom from the one-dimensional consciousness of I, me, of selfishness. They are lost sheep, as a Christian would say. Jihadists are what American philosopher Eric Hoffer would call “true believers”. They cannot accept real religion, since that would mean dealing with there own inadequacies, and they make no sense of engineering causes.
Jay Briel
Pattaya
