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Tom Rinaldo

(23,191 posts)
6. I certainly entertain the option that you are correct
Tue Sep 23, 2014, 05:54 PM
Sep 2014

A good portion of me thinks that you are. I just have been caught off guard by how well all these fringe groups have been doing spreading their creed, and winning recruits willing to fight and die for it. I am taken aback by reports that tens of thousands now join their armies, and that the govern cities with hundreds of thousands of residents. It is not merely an Anti-American inspired movement. ISIS talks about retaking Moorish Spain from the Spaniards in the course of time, their historical frame of reference reaches back to "the Profit", not just to Lawrence of Arabia.

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