Fighting in Syria spawns separate civil war in global jihadist movement

[Ptarmigan]

Fighting in Syria spawns separate civil war in global jihadist movement
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/28/fighting-in-syria-spawns-separate-civil-war-in-global-jihadist-movement/

Syria’s bloody civil war has spawned a separate rift with ramifications well beyond the region known as the Levant -- a battle for the very soul of the global jihad movement.

Islamic militants who poured into the embattled nation to help the Free Syrian Army in its bid to topple dictator Bashar Assad are now fighting Assad, the rebels and each other in a barbaric free-for-all. At the center is the split between Al Qaeda’s regional affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, and the newly emerged Islamic State, which are fighting each other on the battlefield and in the war for recruits to the cause of Islamic terrorism.

“The two groups are now in an open war for supremacy of the global jihadist movement,” according to Middle East scholar Aaron Zelin in a research paper published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a U.S.-based think tank.

Al-Qaeda vs. ISIS. I say let them fight each other and let God sort'em out. 

[FlaGator]

Let them fight it out and then nuke the winner from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[thundley4]

If I were to take any side in this situation, it would be Assad's.  Sometimes the devil you know is better than the Muslim terrorists trying to take over.

[Alaska Slim]

If I were to take any side in this situation, it would be Assad's.

I was on his side anyway.

Not only have the Resident Christians sided with him, but his falling would mean a Sunni Hegemony across 2/3 of the middle east.

That would mean the Shias would become even more marginalized, and the Muslims would be less inclined to fight one another. For our sake, we should hope they keep fighting and never turn their attention back West.