Terrorists struck two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday, killing at least 49 people at worship, and outraged the entire world. ISIS claimed "credit" for the attack, unusually heinous both in lethality and in its demon-like rage against the sacred.  Exorcists say an inability to tolerate the sight of anything sacred is a sign of demon possession.  It might say something about ISIS. It leads to the question of why they pick the targets they do.  Terrorists are known for an obsession with signs and symbols – they like to strike on anniversaries, and they hit places of significance, whether for capitalism (World Trade Center) or power (the Pentagon, Westminster) or consumerism (airports, malls, cafés).  They rely on mullahs and kiais and other "wise men" to justify their barbarism theologically as holy acts –  otherwise, they'd just be engaging in garden-variety thuggery, and they know it....(Read Full Post)