[ by Charles Cameron — it seems only natural that extremist factions should be fractious, no? ]
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It not infrequently happens that two items crop up in my RSS feed as though RSS itself could tell I’d be distracted into a DQ post if they followed one another closely enough — and so it was with these two recent pieces, each of which describes a schism in what might be termed our “enemies, foreign and domestic”:

You can read up the details of these rivalries here:

Jihadica: A Jihadi Civil War of Words

SPLC HateWatch: Eating Their Own: Several Feuds Erupt Among White Nationalists

The enchanting image at the top of this post comes from the SPLC’s piece, where it carries the legend:

Colin Liddell playing a magic flute he will use to open a portal to a wizard realm, wherein he will steal a secret potion which will save the White race

I gather the original image shows Flute Boy, a character from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.