Global jihad is doomed because these barbaric boneheads have made everyone – including other Muslims and themselves – their enemy

I’m no social butterfly. In fact, meeting new folk fills me with anxiety. But I do know that murdering people is a pretty bad way to make friends.

And that is the problem with jihadists – and why they are doomed to fail in their mission to expand and supposedly purify the Islamic world.

Since Friday, warped holy warriors have threatened to burn to death 17 Kurdish fighters (who they paraded in cages through an Iraqi city), killed two people and injured five police officers in Copenhagen and goaded Egypt into attacking Libya by beheading 21 Coptic Christians, pictured here being led to their deaths.

These deluded monsters collect enemies like a toddler hoarding toys at a birthday party – and they will stop at nothing. Sooner or later, though, it will end in tears.

To name but a few, the sworn foes of Islamic State (IS) now include the entire Western world, all Arab governments, all Shiites, Iran, Israel (of course), Hamas, Hezbollah and even Al-Qaeda (yes, the group responsible for 9/11).

Indeed, an IS commander, Abu Mus’ab, has even declared Al-Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to be an apostate.

IS – which is considered the vanguard of global jihad and is inspiring a rising trend of lone wolf attacks like the murder of British solider Lee Rigby and possibly the Copenhagen shootings - have also murdered fellow Islamists fighting in Syria because they were considered too moderate.

In fact, jihadists consider almost all Muslims – including fellow Sunnis - to be enemies of true Islam.

They have adopted a philosophy in which they believe they have the right to execute anyone they deem to be outside the real religion.

Almost anyone else might realise that making practically everyone your enemy is stupid in the extreme - but not IS and their supporters hoping to wage attacks in British and other Western cities.

And this is the final flaw in jihadism: ALL the groups and individuals who subscribe to it eventually consider only themselves as the legitimate representatives.

The dream of IS to build a single global Islamic state – headed by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – is certain to chafe with at least a few other extremists.

For example, consider Jemaah Islamiyah, a powerful terrorist organisation that has been fighting for decades to build a regional caliphate in Southeast Asia.

Do you really believe this group, which was responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings and helped plan 9/11, will simply ditch its own dream and submit to a outfit of relative upstarts whose leader threatens to kill all those who don’t swear allegiance?

Beyond that, assuming IS continues to expand its territory, its own warlords from these disparate regions are likely to come into conflict with one another eventually.

In the areas they currently control, the fanatics also face popular uprisings by Sunni Muslims repelled by their new rulers’ brutality and being treated as traitors to Islam.

Furthermore, support among impressionable young Muslims around the world is also likely to wane as they come to realise the contempt IS hold for other followers of this faith and become increasingly sickened by this death cult’s activities.

This should also lead to a reduction in lone wolf attacks.

The only thing that could possibly stop the jihadists’ inevitable decline is if Britain, the U.S. and their allies enhance their common enemy status among many Muslims by launching more aggressive military attacks and “going too far”.

But, assuming we can resist this urge, IS, regardless of how many weapons or how much money it has, will, one way or another, be defeated by fellow Muslims.

And all the other jihadists are ultimately doomed by their own hubris and boneheadedness to share its fate.