One can usually depend on Salon to be the unhinged of the unhinged for the Left-side of the Internet, kinda like Moonbat² (squared). Yet, somehow, this article, originally posted at Alternet, another far left site, actually ended up in Salon, and makes an astonishing admission
6 keys to understanding ISIS’ barbaric brand of nihilism
The latest terrorist attacks by ISIS have changed the 2016 presidential race, sparking a range of predictable reactions across the partisan spectrum, from “Fortress America†stances from Republicans to Democrats pushing to create a new international coalition and combined military response.
But most Americans, especially those running for president, do not really understand what ISIS is about: what they believe and seek, why they are so bloody, how they lure recruits from abroad, and why they are now striking in Paris and Beirut. Last winter, the Atlantic’s Graeme Wood spent weeks with ISIS defenders, sympathetic clerics and academics overseas before writing a revelatory profile, “What ISIS Really Wants.†(snip)
What follows are six key takeaways from Wood’s reporting, updated from a previous AlterNet report.
1. ISIS is Islamic. There are many experts in the West and the Middle East, from academics to other conservative Islamics, who, like President Obama, have said ISIS is not Islamic or is a twisted distortion of the Muslim faith. That’s wrong. ISIS “follows a distinctive form of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy,†Wood writes, explaining that they are not like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, or even Al Qaeda under bin Laden, but akin to “the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.â€
ISIS lives by the most literal translation of the Koran imaginable, as revealed by Mohammed in the seventh century. A Christian analog would be living under the strict edicts in the Book of Leviticus.
“Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and announcements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationary, and coins, ‘the Prophetic methodology,’ which means following the prophecy and example of Mohammed, in punctilious detail,†Wood writes. “But pretending that it isn’t actually a religion, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combated, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it.â€
Salon has long shown a hatred for some religion, particularly Christians and Jews, while protecting all of Islam, portraying any condemnation of the extremists as an attack on all Muslims, with their favorite word “Islamophobia”.. Perhaps it is a turning point that they will go after ISIS in this manner, noting that they are, in fact, following what the Koran tells Muslims to do.
Islam is a culture whose Holy Book tells the story of your Prophet using religion to KILL those he did not like…
Five guys from Syria named Mohammed en route to the US arrested in Honduras using forged Greek passports.
Wonder what that’s all about.
Islam in Ethiopia is the second-most widely practised religion after Christianity. The water consumption by Muslims who wash themselves repeatedly everyday is making them run out of water.According to the latest 2007 national census, there are over 25 million (or 34%)Muslim adherents.. The faith arrived in Ethiopia at an early date, shortly after the hijira. Islam is the religion of the overwhelming majority the main regions that are hit by the current famine the Somali, Afar,Argobba, Harari, Berta, Alaba, and Silt’e and also has many adherents among the Gurage and the Oromo the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia. Muslims and Christians always had conflict since most Muslims prefer to make other religion followers their slaves similar to Darfur , Sudan where Muslims enslaved and murdered millions of non-Muslim Sudanese people. The richest Ethiopian alive is always trying to dominate Christian-Ethiopians with his economical monopolizing power anyway he can wherever they are. He usually succeeds in Ethiopia since he is above the law, But he failed to do the same in USA. A lawsuit filed by the Ethiopian-Arab Muslim Sheik Mohammed Al Amoudi & Co. got dismissed today 11/18/2015 .
Al Amoudi & Co (Jemal Ahmed vs. the Elias Kifle) USA’s Federal District Court has dismissed the case today. EthiopianReview.com won over Al Amoudi & Co.
In February this year, the District Court had entered a default judgment against Elias Kifle after he refused to reveal his sources. He appealed to the Court of Appeals, which returned the case back to the District Court. Today the District Court had no option but to dismiss the frivolous lawsuit and ordered the plaintiff to pay Elias Kifle’s legal expenses.Most Ethiopians that had been wrongly accused by Mohammed Al-Amoudi & Co. see this as a victory for all Ethiopians not only the accused.
Islam in Ethiopia is the second-most widely practised religion after Christianity. The water consumption by Muslims who wash themselves repeatedly everyday is making them run out of water.According to the latest 2007 national census, there are over 25 million (or 34%)Muslim adherents.. The faith arrived in Ethiopia at an early date, shortly after the hijira. Islam is the religion of the overwhelming majority the main regions that are hit by the current famine the Somali, Afar,Argobba, Harari, Berta, Alaba, and Silt’e and also has many adherents among the Gurage and the Oromo the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia. Muslims and Christians always had conflict since most Muslims prefer to make other religion followers their slaves similar to Darfur , Sudan where Muslims enslaved and murdered millions of non-Muslim Sudanese people. The richest Ethiopian alive is always trying to dominate Christian-Ethiopians with his economical monopolizing power anyway he can wherever they are. He usually succeeds in Ethiopia since he is above the law, But he failed to do the same in USA. A lawsuit filed by the Ethiopian-Arab Muslim Sheik Mohammed Al Amoudi & Co. got dismissed today 11/18/2015 .
Al Amoudi & Co (Jemal Ahmed vs. the Elias Kifle) USA’s Federal District Court has dismissed the case today. EthiopianReview.com won over Al Amoudi & Co.
In February this year, the District Court had entered a default judgment against Elias Kifle after he refused to reveal his sources. He appealed to the Court of Appeals, which returned the case back to the District Court. Today the District Court had no option but to dismiss the frivolous lawsuit and ordered the plaintiff to pay Elias Kifle’s legal expenses.Most Ethiopians that had been wrongly accused by Mohammed Al-Amoudi & Co. see this as a victory for all Ethiopians not only the accused.
“Like Jim Jones”????? Seriously?????
How about “like bloodthirsty savages from the 7th century bent on piracy, rape, murder, enslavement, and subjugation”?
You know, strict followers of the Koran.
Just because Da’ish say that they are Islamic doesn’t mean that they are, according to Our Betters, who know them much better than they know themselves.
Now, Our Betters are perfectly willing to tell us that a biological male is really female, because that’s how he defines himself, despite all evidence to the contrary, but if a Muslim terrorist tells us that he is a Muslim, why we can’t take him at his word for that!
Culture always trumps religion.
In the USA people SAY they are christian and follow the Bible but really who does?
Old Testament says Sabath is friday sunset to Saturday(Sabbath day) sunset
No eating shrimp or pork !!
Exactly when is it OK to drop bombs that kill kids ?
Does anyone really believe that the Bible is accurate and that Noah put 2 T-Rexs onto his Ark ?
Doesn’t the Bible also tell people to kill?
Kill your own brother and son, if they entice you to serve other gods
– Deuteronomy, 13:6
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
– Deuteronomy 13:13-19
Kill all non-believers in your town
– Deuteronomy, 17:2
Kill People Who Don’t Listen to Priests
– Deuteronomy 17:12
… and it is written:
Kill each being that breathes
– Deuteronomy, 20:16
everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put
to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
– 2 Chronicles 15:12-13
Thus saith the LORD? Slay both man and woman, infant and suckling.
– 1 Samuel 15:3
Kill Witches
– Exodus 22:17
Kill Homosexuals
– Leviticus 20:13
Kill Fortunetellers
– Leviticus 20:27
“The Christian glories in the death of a pagan, because thereby Christ
himself is glorified.”
– St. Bernard of Clairvau
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones
And people shouldn’t post things that basically has nothing to do with thre post. If you’ll like to contradict Salon on what they said, by all means do so. But again another sad attempt at moral equivalence by John.
Well of course ISIL is Islamic. Just as the KKK is Christian. But ISIL is no more representative of the mass of Muslims than the KKK represents Christians.
The far-right trolls the Koran to find troubling verses. John and I troll the Bible to find troubling verses to show you how it’s done.
The Bible says to kill non-believers and the Church used to do just that! But no more.
SOME ultraconservative Muslims (e.g., ISIL) still do, and we should do all we can to stop them. Fundamentalists of all stripes are a steyn on humanity.
“….No more than the KKK represents Christians.” That’s true- the KKK is much more representative of Southern Democrats.