ISIS, Iran, Obama and Genocide

The Obama administration finally publicly stated the obvious. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters, referring to ISIS by its Arabic acronym : "Daesh is genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology, and by actions. In my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control, including Yazidis, Christians and shiite Moslems." US officials say Obama's genocide decision does not create a US legal obligation to do more, and will not change US military strategy. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said : "Acknowledging that genocide or crimes against humanity have taken place in another country would not necessarily result in any particular legal obligation for the United States." But, US officials noted they began air strikes against ISIS targets in Iraq in August 2014 to save the Yazidi minority group from targeted attack. ISIS videos depict the violent deaths of people who disagree with it -- beheadings, mass shootings, being blown up with fuses attached to their necks, drowned in cages in swimming pools, with underwater cameras capturing their agony. Earlier, Kerry had accused ISIS of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. ~~~~~ It is stated whenever Islamic jihadists commit massacres in the West that ISIS does not speak for Islam. After the San Bernardino terror attack that left 14 dead, President Obama, who insists that ISIS “is not Islamic,” said : "ISIL does not speak for Islam. They are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death....Moreover, the vast majority of terrorist victims around the world are Moslem." Similar sentiments were expressed after the Paris attacks. Such arguments separate Islam from violence by suggesting that real Moslems don't kill other Moslems in the name of jihad. This adds confusion to the question of who the true victims of Islamic terrorism are : Why talk about the Moslem slaughter of non-Moslems -- Westerners in Paris or California, or Christian minorities under Islam -- when it is Moslems who are the primary victims? There are several problems with this argument. Sunni ISIS doesn't view its victims as Moslems. Sunni Islam -- approximately 85% of Islam -- views all non-sunnis as false Moslems and heretics who must submit to “true Islam.” This is largely how sunnis and shiites view each other. It results in perennial war. Because Westerners tend to lump them together as "Moslems," it is easy to erroneously decide that ISIS is not Islamic because it kills 'fellow Moslems.' So, when sunni ISIS jihadists slaughter shiites, they are applying the same logic they use when they slaughter Christians, Europeans, Americans and Israelis. All are infidels who must either embrace the true faith, be subjugated, or die. ~~~~~ For sunni jihadists -- ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas -- all non-sunni peoples are infidels and thus targets. Fellow sunnis, if they die accidentally, are martyrs, and if fellow sunnis intentionally get in the way, they are denounced as infidels and killed. Moslems have been slaughtering Moslems who are not 'Islamic' from early on. Soon after the Prophet's death in 632, Islam split over who his successor should be. Bloody wars followed and continue. ~~~~~ Dear readers, currently -- from the 1979 Iran Revolution to 2015 -- shiite groups in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, supported by Iran have won key political victories that have increased shiite Iran’s regional influence. Iran proxies -- Lebanon's Hezbollah, Iraq shiite militias, al-Assad Syrian Alawites, and Yemeni Houthi -- have viciously attacked sunni Saudi Arabia and its followers. One might ask why sunni ISIS is accused of genocide while shiite slaughter, although perhaps not as barbaric -- there is little published detail about this -- is not even called ethnic cleansing. It may be because Hussein is one of the most common shiite names. Barack Hussein Obama has always said that the sunni ISIS is not part of Islam.