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[Pharaohs Army]

Originally Posted by Eŋg

if you were to decontextualize scripture from any of the three abrahamic religions you could make very convincing cases for each of them justifying the murder of those that aren't of their faith. those justifications have, historically, been actualized in the past, too.

I know bro.
But it's VERY clear in Islamic text, and far more frequent. "Less steps" of decontextualizations.
Also note the word "past"... if I lived hundreds of years ago, Catholicism would absolutely be the clear and present danger that I'd be concerned about.

Originally Posted by Eŋg

when cities are carpet bombed and innocent women and children are murdered en masse (to allegedly weed out a few 'terrorists' or insurgents they're sure are there) predominantly from the military forces of supposedly 'christian' states the faith is rarely, if ever, brought into it - even when a leader, at the time of committing said atrocities, will say their 'christian conscience is clear' (paraphrase).

Shock & Awe made me sick to my stomach and conscience.
But as I have made some broad points about terrorism and Islam, I ask myself: little girls being kidnapped, denied schooling, or treated as sex slaves (spoils of war) becaaaause??... can we draw a straight line from these things to US bombings in the Middle East?, I'd say the line is much much straighter to the Prophet Mohammad's worldly conquests and exploits.

Originally Posted by Eŋg

you could also scour the scripture for good examples that posit co-existence. but nobody is interested in that, because when shit goes down, we (as a collective) immediately want to assign blame somewhere as long as it isn't among ourselves. creatures governed by fear and quick to cling to the negative.

There are some beautiful parts of the Koran. A lot of Goodnatured folks are inclined to interpret 'jihad' as an inner struggle for piety pureness and goodness to all.
Lol, I'm not worried about that. At all.
I'm more concerned about the other very common interpretation of Jihad (which does not take much 'twisting' at ALL). You know.. The one which results in body parts of innocent people being exploded all over. This is happening more frequently these last few years.

I'm also concerned about innocent civilians being exploded when a drone strike occurs. Even if their skin is brown.

Originally Posted by Eŋg

on numbers alone (go and look at them), 'ISIS' are responsible for killing more muslims than they are non-muslims, so they can hardly be termed the jihadist crusaders for islamic justice, can they?

So when ISIS goes into a village and spraypaints buildings with symbols that display the "kind of Muslim" the residents of the building are... I guess that's just for the fun of it.

Originally Posted by Eŋg

to summarize, ISIS isn't remotely representative of islam...

Then why do they use passages from the Hadith and Koran to justify what they're doing, and to recruit?

Originally Posted by Eŋg

...and is so only because of flawed hive-minded, mob-mentality thinking.

Congratulations, you've defined religion.
particularly the big3 monotheistics.