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How Islamic is Islamic State group? Not very, experts say
AP ^ | 3/2 | LEE KEATH and HAMZA HENDAWI

Posted on 03/02/2015 11:07:33 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

Three British schoolgirls believed to have gone to Syria to become "jihadi" brides. Three young men charged in New York with plotting to join the Islamic State group and carry out attacks on American soil. A masked, knife-wielding militant from London who is the face of terror in videos showing Western hostages beheaded.

President Barack Obama has insisted the militants behind a brutal campaign of beheadings, kidnappings and enslavement are "not Islamic" and only use a veneer of Islam for their own ends. Obama's critics argue the extremists are intrinsically linked to Islam. Others insist their ideology has little connection to religion

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To: TangledUpInBlue
LOL. Referenced experts...


21 posted on 03/02/2015 11:22:15 AM PST by Wyatt's Torch
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The article makes a sweeping claim then gives only one example in regards to be headings. And even that is a weak one.

Mohammed gave a command for beheading then enemy then gave a suggestion for what to do with prisoners. You don’t have a misinterpretation... You have a legit disagreement over scripture.


22 posted on 03/02/2015 11:22:34 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Islamic State is not Islamic, much in the same way that the National Socialist German Workers Party was not Socialist...

...If it smells like Big Government or goat-eating blasphemous thugs, the smell might mean more than the taqiyya from the Left.

23 posted on 03/02/2015 11:23:01 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: TangledUpInBlue

It seems to me this article is a lie written to support Obama’s lie about ISIS Islamism. Total bullshit.


24 posted on 03/02/2015 11:23:20 AM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: TangledUpInBlue

In the world of PR, this is considered “repositioning the narrative.”
Undoubtedly they will continue to build upon the concept...


25 posted on 03/02/2015 11:24:45 AM PST by locountry1dr (Political correctness kills)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Face it. The United States is led by a delusional President who is about to sign an agreement with lunatic “death loving” mullahs who will as a result obtain nuclear weapons. He is protected by a MSM that sees the world through the prism of white guilt and the fallacy of “white privlidge”.


26 posted on 03/02/2015 11:25:52 AM PST by allendale
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To: TangledUpInBlue

ISIS follows the Koran to the letter.


27 posted on 03/02/2015 11:26:30 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: TangledUpInBlue

This isn’t about doctrinal differences. You can get as many disagreements over doctrine within Buddhism and Christianity as you can within Islam. The difference is that nobody in Buddhism or Christianity is beheading scores of people over them.


28 posted on 03/02/2015 11:27:43 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: onedoug

The majority of muslims clearly support the imposition of sharia on a global scale. That renders ALL of them suspect if not outright guilty of subversion.


All muslims are obligated by their faith to seek global submission to Islam. Shariah law for all.
Convert, submit or die.


29 posted on 03/02/2015 11:35:22 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

They are pure Islam as practiced by Mohammed himself. With half the worlds muslim believing the Mhaddi’s return is evident and they have no problem trying to hasten that. You have 750 million muslims ready to become jihadi’s, support them or not do anything to thwart others
So Houston we do have a problem
Freegards
LEX


30 posted on 03/02/2015 11:49:18 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Experts? Like Obama, ValJar, John Kerry, and CAIR.


31 posted on 03/02/2015 11:52:46 AM PST by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: GodAndCountryFirst
If banning or regulating Islam requires a Constitutional amendment (based on the theory that it is a religion), then we should start drafting one.

islam is not a religion and hence not subject to Constitutional protections; legislation alone should do the trick. It's high time we had a measured, national debate on this issue.

32 posted on 03/02/2015 11:54:36 AM PST by Salvey
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I think a ton of this is ongoing knee jerk reaction to Graeme Wood’s write up in the notoriously hard liberal Atlantic, where he actually said that ISIS in fact is a truly Islamic groups that does what they do based first and foremost on their interpretations of the Quran, Hadiths, and Sura. In that write up, Graeme in fact was still being what one might call PC in that he affirmed that peaceful, liberal Muslims’ interpretation of Islam is as valid as ISIS’s. However, it was quite possibly the first time in the 14 years since 9/11 that a liberal publication openly acknowledged that ISIS and fundamentalist Islamic groups like ISIS do what they do for Islamic reasons above all else. And the backlash has been going on for weeks now.


33 posted on 03/02/2015 11:55:26 AM PST by youngphys01
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To: TangledUpInBlue

read the Koran and you will see that ISIS is VERY Islamic indeed, as are all of Obama’s good friends in Islamic terror gangs like Muslim Brotherhood, etc.


34 posted on 03/02/2015 12:05:06 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..).)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Co-authored by Hamza Hendawi, I am certain the “experts” were carefully vetted for their objective views. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!


35 posted on 03/02/2015 12:09:55 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: allendale

Not delusional. Malicious.


36 posted on 03/02/2015 12:11:02 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: TangledUpInBlue
The vast majority of Muslim clerics say the group cherry picks what it wants from Islam's holy book, the Quran, and from accounts of Muhammad's actions and sayings, known as the Hadith. It then misinterprets many of these, while ignoring everything in the texts that contradicts those hand-picked selections, these experts say.

Unless the author can name the clerics in question then I call BS on this claim.

37 posted on 03/02/2015 12:20:18 PM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: House Atreides

An article about how benign Islam really is and the Koran is being misinterpreted but the best they could find is a passage instructing their followers to ransom their POWs


38 posted on 03/02/2015 1:27:27 PM PST by scope721
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To: TangledUpInBlue
The vast majority of Muslim clerics say the group cherry picks what it wants from Islam's holy book, the Quran, and from accounts of Muhammad's actions and sayings, known as the Hadith. It then misinterprets many of these, while ignoring everything in the texts that contradicts those hand-picked selections, these experts say.

And?

The ISIS types say that these clerics are cowards or apostates, who don't take their faith seriously. So we, who are not mohammedans, have to look to the history of mohammedanism to see which group is more authentic. And since mohammedanism displays a history of bloody conquest, persecution, and genocide ....

Looks like ISIS is pure mohammedanism. Accept no substitutes. None genuine without Mad Mo's signature. Written in blood.

39 posted on 03/02/2015 1:31:32 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Salvey

NONE of the GOP’s 2016 “hopefuls” are even talking about this. It’s time for the Tea Party and others to raise the issue so forcefully that they cannot continue to ignore it.

I think this is a position that could swing a lot of independents and Democrats to our side — though they would never admit it to pollsters.


40 posted on 03/02/2015 2:05:57 PM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
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