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In reply to the discussion: re ISIS: Sometimes turning the other cheek is not an option. [View all]Yorktown
(2,884 posts)23. Thanks, but I humbly think I'm very knowledgeable about Islam.
Let me give you two lessons in Islam:
(1) who pays the piper calls the tune. Case in point: France itself. The imams are appointed at mosques according to which country pays for the mosque's budget. That's why France had -roughly until 1990- Moroccan or Algerian or Tunisian mosques.
Then came in the Arab peninsula dollars, mostly Qatari. Result? Total radicalisation, with a boom of allegiance of French mosques to Salafism. Who pays the piper calls the tune.
(2) you made a statement which proves you need to study Islam more:
Over 1400 years not one word of the Koran has ever been changed, and not one Muslim in the 1.7 billion of them in the world would ever accept a change in the Koran as every Muslim believes its the word of God and cannot ever ben changed no matter what.
May I suggest you look into what itjihad is, and what Mu'tazila was?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%60tazila
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aerial bombing just hits fixed assets and brought IS *into* existence, assassination also helps
MisterP
Nov 2015
#28
maybe we should stop backing factions that aim to destroy stable governments?
killbotfactory
Nov 2015
#37