Yemen, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Somalia, Kenya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Chechnya, the Caucasus, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Xinjiang, Thailand and the Philippines – all of these lands are facing Islamic or Islamist insurgencies of one sort or another.
In the case of Yemen,, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Mali, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Chechnya, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the Islamists are fighting against or trying to overthrow Muslim governments that they feel are insufficiently Islamic.
There is generalized inter-Muslim sectarian conflict in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Pakistan. Most of this is Sunni vs. Shia.
In Israel, Islamists are apparently trying to overthrow non-Muslim rule over what they see as their lands.
In Nigeria, Kashmir, Xinjiang, Thailand and the Philippines, Islamists are separatists fighting for independence for their regions from a non-Muslim national state.
In Kenya and now France, Islamists are fighting against non-Muslim states who have intervened in various wars in Muslim lands.
Cameroon is just spillover from the Nigerian conflict.
It is time to quit calling what happens in France “terrorism.” They are dealing with the same thing Israel is dealing with – an armed Islamist insurgency.
