RFE/RL's "Under the Black Flag" Blog: "Al-Qaeda Speaks The Language Of Syrian Sectarianism"

New from me on RFE/RL’s “Under the Black Flag” blog:

Jabhat al-Nusrah’s top religious official makes an appeal for jihad in Syrian terms – and it turns out that when al-Qaeda wants to tap into an indigenously Syrian sentiment to fuel their jihad, it looks to toxic, even genocidal, sectarianism.

http://www.rferl.org/content/black-flag-syria-islamic-state-al-qaeda-sectarianism-alawites/27788931.html

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