Figures Show That Mexican Drug Cartels Eclipse Islamic ISIS in Violence Tom Porter - IBTimes
go to original October 25, 2014

A woman, whose sister is believed to have been killed by a Mexican drugs cartel, is comforted by a police officer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Reuters)

In recent months the brutality of Islamic State (ISIS) has shocked the world, with opponents and enemies of the jihadist group beheaded and crucified in mass executions, and women and children enslaved and sold in markets, as the jihadist group conquered swaths of Syria and Iraq.

US president Barack Obama has deplored ISIS' violence and pledged to "degrade and destroy" the group, but Musa al-Gharbia, a research fellow at the Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts, claims that there is a far graver threat to the US closer to home.

"Many Western commentators have characterised ISIL's [Islamic State] crimes as unique, no longer practiced anywhere else in the civilised world," he writes for Al Jazeera.

"They argue that the group's barbarism is intrinsically Islamic, a product of the aggressive and archaic worldview that dominates the Muslim world. The ignorance of these claims is stunning," he says.

He points to a series of figures showing that the violence of the cartels in some cases eclipses, and in others equals that of the Islamist group.

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