The ideology writ culturally large (Quran + Hadith + Sectarian Emotion) affords license and then the character and chemistry of a certain kind of zealot does the rest. Whether that zealot represents a diseased branch of the whole or an ever latent perverse florescence is a part of “shimmer”, and if it’s always there, the religion will continue to fail as observed and measured by the external conflicts it foments and the internal violence it hosts.

Yesterday’s “Islamist” bombing of a bus in Volgograd becomes unfortunately another defining moment in the fate of Islam in the world even though it represents a comparatively thin “intelligraphic” band of Muslims, i.e., those engaged in murder integrated with a religious program, whether by Quran-based imperative, the inspiration of an Hadith, or culture-wide invention and emulation (shared cultural attitude).

Related: BBC News – Russia bus bomb: Volgograd blast kills six – 10/21/2012.

Beside the thin band of evildoers actively plotting violence — one may imagine the Rings of Saturn here — there seems to be a broader one of affiliates and sponsors bent on imposing Muslim will on non-Muslims or producing shadow governments tuned to Muslim Brotherhood imperatives regardless of surrounding cultural, economic, political, and social states of affairs.

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