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To picture the jihadists and leaders of the Islamic State as mere terrorists or thugs is to use Western political terms to blind ourselves to the religious dynamism of this movement. No wonder our leaders cannot or will not understand it. This purpose, when successful, is a terrible thing.
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Briefly put, Islam, in its founding, is intended to be, literally, the world religion. Nothing else has any standing in comparison. It is to bring the whole world to worship Allah according to the canons of the Quran.
Ping!
I don’t think that world religion really is/was the purpose of Islam. It always was a war plan designed to further the self-aggrandizement of an ego-maniac (Mo) by bribing violent psychopathic criminals to his service.
Mo’s gone, but the machine rolls on.
Sometimes I think that Islam is whatever the people high up in the Islamic hierarchy want it to be. Why, sometimes I even think that Obama envisions himself as the arch-interpreter of Islam and Marxism. Everyone else is doing it wrong.