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This is Islam gone amok with its war against itself. The viciously violent faction of Hate Central using defence of Islam as its inspiration for unbridled slaughter. Its enemies the disrespectful-to-Islam West, the Crusading infidels, the Jews who would not accept Mohammed's courteous invitation to forsake Judaism for Islam. And for the historied arrogance of their refusal, they have paid handsomely in wars of attrition through the ages.

Those Muslims who wish to live their lives as worshippers of Islam without the baggage of violent jihad are less Muslims in the jaundiced eyes of the Islamists than betrayers of Islam. This is an end-game that the Salafists and the Wahhabists and the Muslim Brotherhood with its offshoots of Hamas and Hezbollah play with the world at large, to counter the influence and the civil advances of the West for the goal of a global caliphate.

The charismatic figurehead of global jihad who courteously demonstrated what bold determination and casual consideration of the meaning of life brought together in a tandem of bold purpose could accomplish is no more, but his legacy lives on. Now that he is dead, now that he has ascended to Paradise to be served and serviced by virgins aplenty as reward for his selfless sacrifice, his sacred blood is to be avenged.

Just another reason for the mujaheddin to hone their terror skills in seeking new and more powerful images to leave the world with, corresponding with their volatile belligerence, their fascination with dealing death wholesale. And the latest carnage 80 dead in northern Pakistan in a paramilitary training centre. Young men who were being trained by the military to defend their country's interests preparing to go home on leave.

The many wounded may never be able, due to their injuries, to pick up where they left off. They will always remember hearing the triumphant "Allahu Akbar!" and the two terrifying blasts that took the lives of their comrades, and made martyrs of those who acted as human bombs. Trauma, both physical and psychological, condemns them to live the event in perpetuity, while the 80 whose lives were taken were at least spared that.

This is Islam at its most incendiary, the kind of human relations that detest those among their own communities who cannot grasp the dire need to slavishly engage in jihad as commanded by the Koranic precepts that neatly fit the agenda of the jihadists.