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Terror Networks
How Islamic is Islamic State group? Not very, experts say
2015-03-03
[RUDAW.NET] Three British schoolgirls believed to have gone to Syria to become "jihadi" brides. Three young men charged in New York with plotting to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group and carry out attacks on American soil. A masked, knife-wielding turban from London who is the face of terror in videos showing Western hostages beheaded.

They are among tens of thousands of Moslems eager to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State group. An estimated 20,000 have streamed into the territory in Iraq and Syria where the group has proclaimed what it calls a "caliphate" ruled by its often brutal version of Islamic law.
Posted by:Fred

#8  These are the same people who say you are not a real Christian if you don't support homosexuality and abortion. Without getting into it socially, the rules are listed pretty straight forward.

Second, without arguing whether this is or is not islam, if they win, then it is. So what is a win?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-03-03 15:56  

#7  Let the young suckers travel to Isis. It is a dump for stupid. Maybe others wil learn from them. Besides, Isis is a self destructive organization. In the long run.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-03-03 10:04  

#6  Ask these scholars if it is uncool to wrap the bodies of dead ISIS in bacon products. If they truly believe they are not Islamic they shouldn't mind (a waste of good bacon is another story).

I suspect they would mind because down deep they know what the prophet said had a lot to do with the conditions on the ground at the time and that ISIS is doing a lot of things the prophet would have liked to have done.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-03-03 09:07  

#5  You got that right. These people are cowardly. It is easy for them to behead or burn someone in a cage who is defenseless.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-03 08:19  

#4  Because it's un-Islamic to attack somebody who isn't weaker than you?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-03-03 07:04  

#3  "Those who pervert Islam are not those who cut off the heads of disbelievers and terrorize them," he wrote, "but those who want (Islam) to be like Mandela or Gandhi, with no killing, no fighting, no blood or striking necks."

Islam, he wrote, is the religion "of battle, of cutting heads, of shedding blood

Sums up the battle within Islam. Who is following the true Islam?
Posted by: paul   2015-03-03 07:01  

#2  Love all the "scholars" claiming Mohammed's example isn't Islamic.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2015-03-03 06:27  

#1  The issue of the attraction of ISIS is the clear definition of black versus white, good versus evil, acceptable behavior versus unacceptable behavior.

With most religions equivocating on issues of right and wrong, muddling along in shades of gray and political correctness, the disenchanted, disconnected, and lost will gravitate toward something that provides clear direction on how to live.

If Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism would provide a less namby pamby approach to rules for living, how to live your life, right versus wrong, and a clear cut morality, the attraction of wacko fringe groups with extreme interpretations of religion would not be so great. The wackos may be johnny one note but they provide clear cut rules for living, albeit radical and antisocial.

The great nihilism of the mass media, the routine attacks on people of faith in the media and in academia has created a huge mass of lost souls looking for direction. Unfortunately, western religions do not have a strong beacon of faith these days in their politically correct interpretations of the Bible and the Torah. Pope John Paul was loved by the youth of Europe because his interpretation of theology was completely black and white, there were no shades of gray in his writings, the same for Pope Benedict, not so much for Pope Francis who has been a theological disappointment in his muddling of politically correct social issues with Catholic Orthodoxy.

When the leaders of the denominations of Christianity and Judaism are willing to stand up and contradict the progressive/atheistic agenda of the left with hard rules for living, the attraction offered by the lunatic fringe will decline.
Posted by: Mystic   2015-03-03 00:36  

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