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Fred Sanders

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1. ISIS is Religion Gone Wild, no one including Muslims believe them to be Muslims.....only the

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2014, 09:25 AM

Aug 2014

American media is struggling mightily to connect them to Islam.

"American Jihadist" is the latest Orwellian phrase the propaganda masters have dreamed up to label any young person who has gone to a foreign land to fight or a fake prophet twisting the words of a holy book. All to gin up fear and sell toilet paper ads for more money.

Would a young American fighting in the foreign land of Israel be called an "American Jewhadist?"

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ISIS "has spent most of the past 18 months avoiding actually fighting the Syrian government, [View all] pampango Aug 2014 OP

ISIS is Religion Gone Wild, no one including Muslims believe them to be Muslims.....only the Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #1

Huh, "struggling to connect them to Islam"? snooper2 Aug 2014 #2

The Koran can be twisted as much as the Bible...do you consider Glenn Beck a Christian? Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #4

I just said the Westboro fuckers are christians, along with Glenn baby beck- snooper2 Aug 2014 #6

On the contrary, you're struggling to detach them from Islam. Dreamer Tatum Aug 2014 #3

They are totally detached from Islam, who is saying they are not? Every ME nation agrees with me. Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #5