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The only thing "religious" about the radical Islamist terrorists is their beards.

Most of them are illiterate, and know only what the "mullahs" tell them. Some of the "mullahs" aren't even real "mullahs," in that they have never been accepted by and branch of Islam as having the required educational credentials, etc.

They're just their own little club.

The only thing "religious" about the radical Islamist terrorists is their beards. Most of them are illiterate, and know only what the "mullahs" tell them. Some of the "mullahs" aren't even real "mullahs," in that they have never been accepted by and branch of Islam as having the required educational credentials, etc. They're just their own little club.

A point worth emphasizing, yes.

The constant refrain that because Saddam is "Secular" while those other gangs of armed thugs over there - who hate the same people (Americans) and have many of the same goals - are "Religious", and thus they'd never work together or help each other, has always cracked me up. :-)

If I were Saddam, and had observed that see-no-evil attitude, I'd think to myself, "sheesh, these people are so stupid and suicidal, that I can just kill tons of 'em on the cheap by handing some cash to this or that private army of (ha ha) 'Religious' warriors and letting them do my dirty work. American gets attacked and they'll bend over backwards trying to argue that I couldn't have been behind it because I'd never associate with any 'Religious' group....the perfect crime."

Some of the "mullahs" aren't even real "mullahs," in that they have never been accepted by and branch of Islam as having the required educational credentials, etc

So, they have "mail-order" Mullahs like we have "mail-order" Ministers.