Islamofascist Radicals’ Effectively Worship a Modern Huitzilopochtli?

A few days ago the Chief commented here on an article that framed the Islamofascist attacks on the US in terms of typical 20th century socio-political ideological opposition to a perceived US neo-imperialism.

The Chief made the point that to the contrary, that the motivation of the terrs was an internal driver, based on their conception of their religion, independent of more conventional reasoning (indeed, of any true reasoning at all).

Hinderaker over at PowerLine makes this point more forcefully and colorfully, equating the Islamofascist mind-set to that of the Aztecs, whose worship of their war god Huitzilopochtli demanded ever more bloody offerings of beating human hearts:
“…the best historical precedents are the Aztecs, who turned mere human sacrifice into an art form by killing more and more and more people until they literally may have slaughtered an end to their own empire. Their intent was not to achieve some political goal; they already ruled. Rather, they developed the theological notion that the more people they butchered, the more pleased their bloody gods would be.

And this:
But like serial and spree killers, like those who commit human sacrifice, the motivation is found not in the external world but in his own internal hell, in the voice that only he can hear, from his bloody, eldrich gods, who demand blood and souls, blood and souls in the name of Moloch, or Arioch, or Cthulhu, or Huitzilopochtli, who demand mass sacrifices in the Grand Pyramid (or the Great Mosque — and it is significant that one of the favorite targets for the killers are mosques full of worshippers, as if they saw their red-dripping thunderclap as an explosive “amen” to the service).

This is a pretty goood comparison. Go check it out.