Wait. I got this.

by Tom Sullivan

McClatchy asks an adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry how the Islamic State justifies its blood lust:

They cherry-pick Quranic verses out of context, apply the most rigid interpretations of jurisprudence and excuse just about any brutality by saying they’re waging a defensive jihad on behalf of aggrieved Muslims worldwide, according to Jocelyne Cesari, a renowned scholar of Islam who’s part of Secretary of State John Kerry’s working group on faith and foreign policy.

Swap out "Quranic" with "Bible," "jihad" with "preemptive war," and "Muslims" with "Christians" and this could describe death penalty proponents in Texas or torture apologists across America.

See if this doesn't sound familiar:

Q: What religious grounding does the Islamic State give for its atrocities? A: They say they’re in survival mode. They believe that conditions for Muslims today are a danger to your soul as a Muslim. They don’t see their jihad as an attack; they see it as defensive jihad.

Wait. I got this. "We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Preemptive jihad. Who'da thunk that strategery would have become so popular?