“I believe Isis’s agenda has been religious from the get go,” said Dr. Faheem Younus, with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.  “For them anyone who does not follow their perverted version of Islam is not worth living.”

Dr. Faheem Younus of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Dr. Younus sees the war with ISIS playing out this way; “The endgame really is going to be from ideological and theological standpoint, when more and more Muslims stand up and say ‘no you are not Islam.’”

Source: uppermichiganssource.com

Gruesome video released Sunday of a mass beheading in Libya of nearly two dozen Egyptian Christians by the Islamic State raises new fears about the terrorist organization’s reach and capabilities. 

Video purportedly released by ISIS came with a signed message of “blood to the nation of the cross.”
21 Coptic Christians are believed to have been killed; the attack brought swift reaction from around the world, including the Vatican.

“It makes no difference whether they are Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants,” Pope Francis said Monday. “They are Christians. Their blood confesses Christ,” he added.

An attack on Christians and people of other faiths is not anything new for ISIS.

Bill Braniff, a terrorism expert with the University of Maryland, says what the attack shows is a more clear dividing line between the Islamic State and Al Qaeda, in terms of tactics and ideology.

“Al Qaeda’s global Jihadism was an anti-western kind of Jihadism and they didn’t target Christians; they targeted the west – businessmen, embassies these types of targets.”

White House Press secretary Josh Earnest underscored the same sentiment in a press release:
“Isil’s barbarity knows no bounds.  It is unconstrained by faith, sect, or ethnicity.”