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What ISIS Really Wants
The Atlantic ^ | 2/16/15 | Graeme Wood

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; algeria; indonesia; iran; iraq; isis; islam; israel; kurdistan; libya; mali; pakistan; syria; taliban
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To: FatherofFive

31:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep:
for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

...........................

Well, a really strict following of the Old Testament would have you kill a neighbor who was caught outside his home mowing the lawn on the Sabbath, and there are many cases where the penalties for not following the rules are death. I do get your drift, though, that if we stuck to at least the first ten of the Commandments things would run better.


61 posted on 02/19/2015 7:14:03 AM PST by DBrow
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To: WayneS

The usurper told him.


62 posted on 02/19/2015 10:48:31 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Kartographer
I read it all and these wars ARE leading to the beginning of the last days (which I believe to be 7 yrs.). Some Bible scholars are saying this year is the first of the final seven years. There will be a final war and Christ comes to win that war.

This Islamic Muslim in our White House is allowing these wars to escalate, the burning/crucifixion/cutting off of heads to continue, in order to bring the Muslims here in the millions to turn this country into a Muslim country.

Kart, you know some of us are prepared for whatever may happen. As Christians, we are not afraid.

63 posted on 02/19/2015 6:56:46 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

64 posted on 02/19/2015 9:18:41 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: FatherofFive
We are so conditioned to getting our news from the TV that we wait for truth and light from the Ratchet Obama Tribe as if it will happen some day.

Looks like their jihad to keep us down until the next caliphate can arise has worked as planned.

No one wants to take a stand for christ.

66 posted on 02/20/2015 4:10:21 AM PST by x_plus_one
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To: arthurus

If we wait long enough for the Obama Tribe to say ‘my bad’ we will all be underground.


67 posted on 02/20/2015 4:12:20 AM PST by x_plus_one
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To: DoodleDawg

ISIS is conditioning the world for horror so that when they destroy Israel by nuclear attack there will be a reduced response from the world.

“Why is this such a bid deal” the Obama type anti-Semites will say. “They have been cutting off the heads of little Christian girls for a decade.”


68 posted on 02/20/2015 4:14:22 AM PST by anton
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To: Kartographer

Love that graphic, Kart. Amen.


69 posted on 02/20/2015 6:03:51 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Marcella; Kartographer

What was the passage of “O Lord, strengthen my hands for battle...”


70 posted on 02/20/2015 6:59:13 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge; Kartographer
“What was the passage of “O Lord, strengthen my hands for battle...””

The scripture you are likely thinking of is when Samson called upon the Lord to strengthen him to destroy the Philistines who had taken his sight. He pulled down the pillars of that building and killed them all, including himself.

This Samson story is also current Israel's last option for war. It's called the “Sampson Option”. This means if Israel is going to be annihilated, they will use the “Samson Option” which means they will use a nuclear bomb to destroy their enemies, plus themselves, rather than be destroyed by their enemies as has happened in the past.
Here is the scripture:

“Judges 16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

71 posted on 02/20/2015 8:33:24 AM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Marcella; Kartographer
I was thinking more of this:

Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight

~ Psalm 144

72 posted on 02/20/2015 10:59:44 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge

Excellent. I did a Bible search and this verse did not pop up. In case of war, this verse should be on our chests:

“Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.”
~ Psalm 144


73 posted on 02/20/2015 12:16:29 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Marcella; Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; MS.BEHAVIN; StarCMC

“Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.”

~ Psalm 144

I had that verse dog-eared in the little Gideon Bible I was given by the Freeper Canteen ladies prior to shipping out.

Has it already been ten years?


74 posted on 02/21/2015 6:07:35 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge

((((SARGE))))

How time flies when you’re having fun!

I’m so glad I was a tiny part of your deployment and life during the time you fought for our country!

I think you’re still fighting for it in a very different way now.


75 posted on 02/21/2015 8:08:56 AM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: caww
I'm stealing borrowing this. It's too good not to share on other forums...such as Facebook and Twitter!
76 posted on 02/21/2015 8:11:18 AM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: anton

“ISIS is conditioning the world for horror so that when they destroy Israel by nuclear attack there will be a reduced response from the world.”

It would be a very sad day... and even worse that if this does happen and we do not melt Mecca it will show who has won...


77 posted on 02/21/2015 8:30:46 AM PST by oust the louse (The Democratic Party might as well be called the Death Party. Abortion & ObamaCare/death panels.)
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To: DoodleDawg
Very informative and contrary to the propaganda coming from the Obama regime.

I never made it above the rank of lance corporal, but I think I have a strategy to end this nightmare in a few months. The article states the koran for tells of an epic battle with the armies of Rome in the Syrian town of Dabiq.

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The Islamic State has attached great importance to the Syrian city of Dabiq, near Aleppo. It named its propaganda magazine after the town, and celebrated madly when (at great cost) it conquered Dabiq’s strategically unimportant plains. It is here, the Prophet reportedly said, that the armies of Rome will set up their camp. The armies of Islam will meet them, and Dabiq will be Rome’s Waterloo or its Antietam.

We simply need to lure these all of rabid jackals there an slaughter them en masse. Done.

78 posted on 02/21/2015 10:50:42 AM PST by Hoboken (A billion broken eggs...no omelette.)
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To: LUV W

I’ve been paying attention to what Dr. Graham has been saying regarding Islam.....he has maintained his stance steady and not changed his initial remarks since he spoke out after 9/11.


79 posted on 02/22/2015 1:13:59 PM PST by caww
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To: FatherofFive

But you see PC in America is the real enemy. For if we remove it we will remove the film from your ryes to see the evil of Islam.


80 posted on 12/10/2015 10:23:49 AM PST by ully2
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