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In reply to the discussion: Terrorists are full of shit. [View all]ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)131. Why do you think they are charlatans?
Seems likely to me that they want money and power for religious reasons.
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I know perfectly well what ISIS has done, but your comments have nothing to do with
Squinch
Jul 2016
#45
Careful. Now he'll tell you that you shouldn't presume to comment in the thread because
Squinch
Jul 2016
#46
I keep going back to the fact that Islam is now at about the same age that Christianity was
Squinch
Jul 2016
#112
Every year, Spain translates more new books into Spanish than the *entire* Muslim world
Marr
Jul 2016
#142
Voltaire and Rousseau came after the Inquisition and the Crusades. They would not have
Squinch
Jul 2016
#148
Most of these are really just mercenaries interested in making money and gaining
newthinking
Jul 2016
#15
I read somewhere that this is a mis-translation. The passage is correctly translated "70 raisins."
Squinch
Jul 2016
#28
I saw it somewhere else, though. I can't remember where I saw it, but I know it wasn't CH.
Squinch
Jul 2016
#49
People have gone to war over which rich person had the better claim to rule them
bravenak
Jul 2016
#39
I wish people would worry about the op rather than my reading list or my passion.
bravenak
Jul 2016
#55
Yeah. The flag that represents them obtaining glory and power through violence
bravenak
Jul 2016
#59
No, the OP is about how saying that it is being done in the name of Islam is a ton of
Squinch
Jul 2016
#110
You are accusing me of something that is not anywhere in my posts about this to you.
Squinch
Jul 2016
#113
It didn't do any good. I get that the difference between what you are saying and what
Squinch
Jul 2016
#121
Another arrogant westerner, claiming to know the Arab mind better than they do themselves.
Marr
Jul 2016
#66
Their hearts are filled with miserable hatred, so it is easy for them to kill innocent people.
dubyadiprecession
Jul 2016
#78
Agree, a bunch of gang bangers out to entertain themselves, wouldn't know
Thinkingabout
Jul 2016
#79
"Terrorists are full of shit", an dthey are fueled by religions and/or nationalism
Albertoo
Jul 2016
#86
But you are not so passionate that you are willing to rape and kill for the idology in those books
bravenak
Jul 2016
#145
Well you said there is no such thing as good and evil, so this is about something you don't believe
Rex
Jul 2016
#123