[francisandbeans]

I personally know some practicing Muslims who do not have a deep understanding of the Koran and interperet it accoding to beleifs passed down through generations of family. However, the school that trains the Taliban members in Pakistan has its students spend the first 2-3 years of schooling devoted to memorizing the Koran. The whole thing. It's a brainwashing technique if you ask me. Put the words there, ingrain them so they have lost thier contextual meaning and use the literal text to indoctrinate according to the groups goals.

[Carry_Okie]

Historian Gordon Newby explains:

"The myth of an original orthodoxy from which later challengers fall away as heretics, is almost always the retrospective assertion of a politically dominant group whose aim is to establish their supremacy by appeal to divine sanction."

Best and most pertinent component in the article.

I had no idea about any of this. That the historic origins point directly toward Israel are almost Biblically ominous. Information like this is so powerful that such an introspective turn as the article demands may instead induce implosion, the ultimate blowback. One might think that the mullahs would call the Jihad before their adherents learned the truth.

Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau... and here we are: a religion without a birthright, willfully headed toward what could well be a final battle.

Great post, thank you.