Let’s talk about Islam

@jen_jen wrote:

I don’t believe ISIL represents Islam…it represents a minority of pretty screwed up people who want to twist a religion to their own ends. It just so happens that in this case the religion is Islam; they could have chosen any religion and twisted it in the same way.

I’m sure you’re right about the motivation, Jen. Lenin/Stalin and Nasser used to be the rallying point for radicals in the Middle East. The failure of both means that people are drawn to radical Islam (the Iranian revolution of 1979 seems to have been the key here). What makes ISIS stand out is the fear they create everywhere (deliberate terror in the genuine sense of the word) and the military success of a group which adapts to the desert and runs elsewhere rather than gets caught in a standing battle. I fear the US bombing may well be increasing the appeal of this particular bunch of medieval mullahs.

As a set of ideas, it belongs to the same set as the millenarian Christians who believe that Christ is about to return – in this case that the true Caliph has arrived. They claim to be the true Moslems, and pledge to kill all heretics. Iran, whose leaders also think that the new age is about to dawn, hate them as deadly heretics.

BB seems to agree with ISIS in its assessment of itself, which indicates he may have an agenda. As did his refusal to condemn the EDL (the vigilantes who see Islam as an enemy to be expelled form our beloved white land) in the previous thread s/he set up. (hmm wonders whther he thinks there was a holocaust :?: )

@jen_jen wrote:

So when are you going to start talking?
Anyone can start a potentially contentious thread then sit back and watch.

maybe that’s the point..helps him to look and feel superior??

Well since BB has signed in and not posted, I assume we won’t be enlightened…