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What Isis Really Wants: The Atlantic, written by an expert (Original Post) lindysalsagal Nov 2015 OP
to read later snagglepuss Nov 2015 #1
A truly good read. Scary. OregonBlue Nov 2015 #2
Yes. Because they're hoping we'll kill the vast majority of muslims lindysalsagal Nov 2015 #3
The true believers are few. The foot soldiers are those radicalized by circumstance. lumberjack_jeff Nov 2015 #6
True enough. Personally, I believe lindysalsagal Nov 2015 #7
Good read. RedCappedBandit Nov 2015 #4
Must read thanks for posting GusBob Nov 2015 #5

lindysalsagal

(20,733 posts)
3. Yes. Because they're hoping we'll kill the vast majority of muslims
Sat Nov 21, 2015, 02:51 PM
Nov 2015

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)
6. The true believers are few. The foot soldiers are those radicalized by circumstance.
Sat Nov 21, 2015, 06:27 PM
Nov 2015

We share no small role in creating those circumstances.

lindysalsagal

(20,733 posts)
7. True enough. Personally, I believe
Sat Nov 21, 2015, 06:32 PM
Nov 2015

(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.

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