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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Isis Really Wants: The Atlantic, written by an expert
This writer clearly explains the destinctions between old and modern sects, and why indiscriminate attacks on innocents serves the Islamic state's ambitions. If you want a useful explanation of the recent deaths, this is it.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)and just before we finish off the last few thousand, Jesus will return and kill the rest of us.
That leaves a few thousand muslims running the whole world.
Complete insanity. The only word for it is genocide by sociopaths.
We can never ever end it as long as there are a handful of brain-damaged desperate cases who can get connected with technology.
It's not all that different from our U.S. school shooters who are so broken and miserable that they think getting killed in the middle of a school massacre will somehow bring them the satisfaction of vengance. How they'll feel that when they're dead, no one ever gets the answer.
This is really not all that different, just different fantacies on a larger scale.
If we're going to try to corral every person who's marginalized and ready to go postal, that would include some of the U.S. congress, if what they say to reporters would ever be acted on...
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)We share no small role in creating those circumstances.
lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)(and I have no way to verify this) that the people who really go through with it all aren't all that religious: They are broken, powerless people who would follow anything if it made them feel more powerful.
IMHO, religions, all of them, will always provide a lightning rod for people who have snapped.