Posted on 02/16/2015 3:42:03 AM PST by DoodleDawg
snip The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.
Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, “the Prophetic methodology,” which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn’t actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it. We’ll need to get acquainted with the Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy if we are to react in a way that will not strengthen it, but instead help it self-immolate in its own excessive zeal. snip
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
And one of the best lines in the article: “As if to show that he could terrorize by imagery alone, Adnani also referred to Secretary of State John Kerry as an “uncircumcised geezer.””
Lol, he sounds like he has inside knowledge.
Same thing that Islamic Obola wants:
DEATH of all ... except terrorists.
In that way, they are similar to Christians who try to live by the example of our Savior Jesus Christ.
The problem, and it's a HUGE problem, is that the 'holy' man they are emulating was a violent, savage, psychopathic, murderous, pedophile rapist.
I know that image terrifies ME!
;-)
I do wonder how the guy knows John Kerry is uncircumcised, though. First hand experience, perhaps?
Allah = SATAN.
Many mainstream Muslim organizations have gone so far as to say the Islamic State is, in fact, un-Islamic. It is, of course, reassuring to know that the vast majority of Muslims have zero interest in replacing Hollywood movies with public executions as evening entertainment. But Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the group’s theology, told me, “embarrassed and politically correct, with a cotton-candy view of their own religion” that neglects “what their religion has historically and legally required.” Many denials of the Islamic State’s religious nature, he said, are rooted in an “interfaith-Christian-nonsense tradition.”... According to Haykel, the ranks of the Islamic State are deeply infused with religious vigor. Koranic quotations are ubiquitous. “Even the foot soldiers spout this stuff constantly,” Haykel said. “They mug for their cameras and repeat their basic doctrines in formulaic fashion, and they do it all the time.” He regards the claim that the Islamic State has distorted the texts of Islam as preposterous, sustainable only through willful ignorance. “People want to absolve Islam,” he said. “It’s this ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ mantra. As if there is such a thing as ‘Islam’! It’s what Muslims do, and how they interpret their texts.” Those texts are shared by all Sunni Muslims, not just the Islamic State. “And these guys have just as much legitimacy as anyone else.”
My beeber is completely stunned over the fact that there is any debate as to whether or not an entity that is designated with the initials I.S. For “islamic State” is not somehow...islamic or about islam.
My take as well.
I'm working my way through it but that seems to be the important takeaway from the article. Of course it is opposite in a very 180 degree way from the message coming from the current President of the United States and his spokesmen - liars all.
And that is why Islam is Evil and must be eradicated.
What would be the outcomes if Christians followed the Scripture to the letter? We'd have less fornication, theft, homosexuality and adultery. Nobody would lose their head.
Denying the holiness of the Koran or the prophecies of Muhammad is straightforward apostasy. But Zarqawi and the state he spawned take the position that many other acts can remove a Muslim from Islam. These include, in certain cases, selling alcohol or drugs, wearing Western clothes or shaving one’s beard, voting in an election—even for a Muslim candidate—and being lax about calling other people apostates. Being a Shiite, as most Iraqi Arabs are, meets the standard as well, because the Islamic State regards Shiism as innovation, and to innovate on the Koran is to deny its initial perfection. (The Islamic State claims that common Shiite practices, such as worship at the graves of imams and public self-flagellation, have no basis in the Koran or in the example of the Prophet.) That means roughly 200 million Shia are marked for death. So too are the heads of state of every Muslim country, who have elevated man-made law above Sharia by running for office or enforcing laws not made by God.
From the article:
"Being a Shiite, as most Iraqi Arabs are, meets the standard (i.e. the failure to view the Koran exactly in accordance with the Sunni beliefs) as well, because the Islamic State regards Shiism as innovation, and to innovate on the Koran is to deny its initial perfection. (The Islamic State claims that common Shiite practices, such as worship at the graves of imams and public self-flagellation, have no basis in the Koran or in the example of the Prophet.) That means roughly 200 million Shia are marked for death. So too are the heads of state of every Muslim country, who have elevated man-made law above Sharia by running for office or enforcing laws not made by God."
The satanists who control america want payment in human lives and Isis is just one way that's being arranged. Prime-time reality TV featuring the murder of Christians is also in the works -- Isis is the gateway for that. Americans will go along with it. They don't seem to care anymore. Obama could come out tomorrow as a pawn of a satanic cabal and nobody would care. As long as they have their tv shows and iphones and other toys, the majority of americans are happy.
"According to Haykel, the ranks of the Islamic State are deeply infused with religious vigor. Koranic quotations are ubiquitous. “Even the foot soldiers spout this stuff constantly,” Haykel said. “They mug for their cameras and repeat their basic doctrines in formulaic fashion, and they do it all the time.” He regards the claim that the Islamic State has distorted the texts of Islam as preposterous, sustainable only through willful ignorance. “People want to absolve Islam,” he said. “It’s this ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ mantra. As if there is such a thing as ‘Islam’! It’s what Muslims do, and how they interpret their texts.” Those texts are shared by all Sunni Muslims, not just the Islamic State. “And these guys have just as much legitimacy as anyone else.”
Excellent article. Thank you for posting it.
I would like to read it, especially because seeing such an article in such a publication seems a bit odd and perhaps a sign that some liberals are getting uncomfortable with the idea of using Jihad to advance the Stalinist State. The two visions, Islam and Communism are identical in their total control of everything but it leaves the question that is paramount to the Communists, Who is to be the ruler? Theory is terribly important but identity ultimately triumphs. The NAZIs and the Communists were bitter enemies, not because their visions were in conflict, but because different gangs were in charge.
Perhaps Kerry is an exhibitionist, or maybe, if Kerry is as sharp as we all think he is, he doesn’t remember to put things back in place when he leaves the rest room.
Ha...I guess John f'n Kerry (of Vietnam fame) went windsurfing with Richard Branson.
and P.S. Anyone who reads Arabic and is not a Moslem is a Liar because only a True Moslem can read the Arabic of the Noble Qur'an.
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