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[politicman]

109. Who cares what religion that attackers think they are, it means absolutely nothing....

After reading these boards, I am stunned at how many ignorant progressives there are out there, especially when I had always thought that progressives chose to be progressive simply because they were able to think in broader terms than Conservative ideas.

This whole argument of whether religion plays a role in terrorist attacks is the dumbest argument I have ever seen made, YES of course it plays a role, BUT WHO FUCKING CARES whether it does.

The Paris attackers proclaimed they were avenging their prophet and their religion, SO WHAT?????



Just because they think they were acting in accordance with what their religion accepts, there are many millions and even hundreds of millions of Muslims that think the attackers were acting against what their religion espouses.


Islam is a decentralised religion, meaning it has no hierarchal structure. Islam is not one big entity, it is a billion different entities that reside in the hearts of a billion different followers. This is the reason Islam can never ever be extinguished from the planet, because you cant just destroy the hierarchy and wait for the religion to peter out, Islam will forever live on simply because Muslim's don't require a higher structure to interpret their religion for them.


Some Muslim's interpret their religion in a way that allows them to carry out terrorist attacks and others interpret it in a way that strictly forbids such actions. One Muslim can interpret their religion as requiring death to anyone that leaves Islam, and another Muslim can interpret their religion as having no problem with people leaving the faith.


For crying out loud, some Muslim's call other Muslim's non-believers simply because they don't want to follow their religion as strictly as the extremists want them to.
Point being, anyone can call themselves a Muslim, anyone can interpret for themselves what the religion accepts and what it doesn't accept. There are people that take the same passage out of the Koran and interpret it in 2 completely different ways.


You can go into one mosque which would be full of people listening to an Imam denouncing terrorists actions, and you can then walk into another Mosque full of people listening to an Imam praising terrorist actions.
How do you then go about deciding which mosque is a true representation of Islam and Muslims?


So as I said above, WHO FUCKING CARES that the attackers in France call themselves Muslim, because as I have demonstrated above, the attackers faith is their own personal faith which should be attributed to them and them only, no other Muslim should be tarred with a brush simply because they also call themselves Muslims but interpret the religion I a completely different way.

And the above reason is why it matters not