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> You can find pretty horrific stuff in the Bible too Yes indeed, but you don't find too many people trying to actually behead or stone people to death based o
by ptaipale 11y ago
> You can find pretty horrific stuff in the Bible too
Yes indeed, but you don't find too many people trying to actually behead or stone people to death based on the Old Testament.
You might find a few, but the problem is rather small compared to Islamism.
- brohee 11y ago> Yes indeed, but you don't find too many people trying to actually behead or stone people to death based on the Old Testament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_God_%28United_States%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_God_%28United_States%2... Funny that when it's Christian fundamentalism, it's the perpretrator fault, but when it's Muslim fundamentalism, it's Islam fault... Yes, ISIS/Daesh is as removed from mainstream Islam as LRA is from mainstream Christianity. The main difference I think is that Daesh has a few rich patrons in the gulf states, funneling money to them while acting friendly toward the rest of the world...
- gotchange 11y agoStill pales in comparison to the number of currently active Islamic terrorist organizations around the world. Just take a look at this list[0] and see for yourself how many of them are Islamic and how many are not [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_g...
- brohee 11y agoDefinitely not denying it. I think the problem is compounded by the decentralized nature of Sunni Islam, leading to a multitude of autonomous and uncontrollable groups... That and the availability of funding from the gulf states...