Replies

From the article:

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.”

Everyone who is interested enough in the world to frequent FR should go get a copy of the Noble Qur'an and read it. It is a pain. The repetition is such that removing the word for word repetitions would shrink the volume down by probably two thirds. But if you read it you will clear away all from your eyes all the obfuscations and BS about that "religion of peace" and the supposed benevolent treatment of "peoples of the Book." Once you learn about "abrogation" you will see that the apparent benevolence of some suras doesn't pertain. In my copy it is all right there because it includes hadiths and Biography. My copy is a Saudi translation so when the Moslem argues back at me that what I read is a false translation- and to a Moslem the only true text is the Arabic, all others are, at best, commentaries and full of lies- I can point out that it is at least what the Guardians of the Holy Places desire for the reader to think.

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.