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Donald Ian Rankin

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9. There are two, mutually incompatible, things you could mean by "good/bad Muslims".

Sun Nov 15, 2015, 12:51 PM

Nov 2015

One is "Muslims who are good/bad people"; the other is "Muslims who are/are not living in accordance with the teachings of Mohammed".

As far as I can see (and I admit that I'm not a historian*), the two are mutually incompatible - ISIS are closer to emulating Mohammed than the non-evil Muslim majority.

N.B. The relevant qualification here is "historian", not "theologian" - Muslim theologians are probably less capable of objectively interpreting the evidence about Mohammed than the average man in the street.

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