Letter — ISIS incorrectly labeled as political Islam

LETTER — ISIS is a criminal gang pretending to be a group of Islamic fundamentalists. It is not an example of “fundamentalist Islamic terror” since it is not Islamic in the first place.

Slavoj Zizek — mistakenly — classifies ISIS as an example of political Islam. It is not. No monotheistic religion authorizes the mass murder of innocents. Fundamentalists of any faith are not necessarily prone to violence – extreme or otherwise.

ISIS uses a political ideology that cloaks itself in a false veil of religion in an attempt to justify its mass murders and other crimes. The members of ISIS are headed for Hell not Heaven under the tenets of Islam.

DEREK COOK
Political Studies, TRU

EDITOR’S NOTE: Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst and social theorist at the University of London. To read the article referred to by Derek Cook, click here.