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onager

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3. True for ISIS, anyway.

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #1)

Fri May 15, 2015, 07:35 AM

May 2015

While realizing he doesn't speak for all Muslims.

That would be wrong. Sort of like claiming that most American Xians are liberals plagued by a small minority of Fundamentalist Assholes.

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"Islam was never a religion of peace." [View all] onager May 2015 OP

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said that. He's the head of ISIS left-of-center2012 May 2015 #1

True for ISIS, anyway. onager May 2015 #3

Yeah sort of like thatt mountain grammy May 2015 #10

Indeed nil desperandum May 2015 #2

ISIS's interpretation of Islam is like Westboro Baptist Church's interpretation of sinkingfeeling May 2015 #4

Unfortunately we can't really tell either of them they are "wrong." n/t trotsky May 2015 #6

Didn't say they were 'wrong' just 'crazy'. sinkingfeeling May 2015 #7

I'll take the WBC any day. Lordquinton May 2015 #14

He is just as correct as the folks who tell us it *is* a religion of peace, of course. trotsky May 2015 #5

At least he's honest. onager May 2015 #9

Yeah, that'll be the day! mountain grammy May 2015 #11

That's OK, I never thought it was. (nt) mr blur May 2015 #8

Religion of peace or not... AlbertCat May 2015 #12

Don't forget that religion is never the motivation when religious people do bad things. beam me up scottie May 2015 #13