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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I do not for a second believe ISIS commits these acts for Allah. ISIS has no faith in God or His will. ISIS is not interested in learning from, pleasing, or obeying God. If they had made any effort at all to understand the teachings of the Quran, we would not see such violent and cruel behavior. But they instead are simply co-opting language and abusing it to justify their messed up world view. [/quote]
Then remove, revise, or clarify the co-opted language so it can no longer be abused.[/quote]

Because the Quran is believed (by those who believe, which doesn't include me) to be the word of God, it can't be removed or revised. However, Arabic lends itself to artful interpretation. Also, there is nothing wrong with viewing the words in a specific context. There has been significant developments along both of those lines which have led to very non-violent versions of Islam. However, for decades that Saudis have been pouring money into efforts to spread Wahhabism, which is a very puritanical version of Islam. Imagine that the Christian Identity Movement had managed to find itself sitting on the type of oil reserves available to the Saudis and had spent decades funding churches throughout the world, particularly in poor, unstable, politically underdeveloped countries. You would likely find many mainstream Christian denominations feeling marginalized.

Moderate Muslims are in many ways finding themselves in the same situation as moderate Republicans. Vocal extremists (and in the case of Islam, violent extremists) have drowned them out. In the case of Islam, a lot more moderates exist, but they are factionalized.

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