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> 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/L
by 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...