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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blaming it on a few passages is a lazy explanation. It's easier than considering the social and economic difficulties that turn disenfranchised people into monsters.

Religion is the excuse that power hungry assholes use to motivate people with nothing to lose. All of you blaming religion are falling for the ruse. Stop being so unbelievably gullible. You're not 5 years old. Use some critical thought.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/the_nonwarm_and_fuzzy_guide_to_understanding_terrorism.html[/quote]

Hell, we could all be like Bernie Sanders and blame it all on climate change.  
These radical Islamists are doing it FOR ALLAH.  It is really that simple. 
This does not mean that all Muslims are terrorists.  But, ISIS is definitely committing their atrocities in the name of their religion. 
Disenfranchised, my ass. 
Social and economic difficulties?  A bunch of BS.
Many of these monsters are from middle class or upper middle class backgrounds. 
They are religious zealots who believe all the world should be Muslim and will go to any extent to make that a reality.  [/quote]

Many of the al-Qaida recruits were indeed middle or upper middle class. But, ISIS is very different. The vast majority of its members are quite poor. Also, if you read the article in today's Washington Post, you will see that it is not clear that the ISIS leadership is all that religious. They are all former Baathists and that was a secular party. 
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The hidden hand behind the Islamic State militants? Saddam Hussein’s.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-hidden-hand-behind-the-islamic-state-militants-saddam-husseins/2015/04/04/aa97676c-cc32-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html

[quote]The de-Baathification law promulgated by L. Paul Bremer, Iraq’s American ruler in 2003, has long been identified as one of the contributors to the original insurgency. At a stroke, 400,000 members of the defeated Iraqi army were barred from government employment, denied pensions — and also allowed to keep their guns.

The U.S. military failed in the early years to recognize the role the disbanded Baathist officers would eventually come to play in the extremist group, eclipsing the foreign fighters whom American officials preferred to blame, said Col. Joel Rayburn, a senior fellow at the National Defense University who served as an adviser to top generals in Iraq and describes the links between Baathists and the Islamic State in his book, “Iraq After America.”[/quote]

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