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The ISIS Megathread

Middleway said:
Thats the kind of mature and reasonable attitude that gets you nowhere on this forum.

Any concession is simply exposing a flank to be attacked by the BL radical leftists.
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This is the kind of immature stubbornness that lead to threads beating a dead horse for 20 pages. Concession is a part of the discussion. Unless you'd rather take the finger in the ears "I can't hear you" approach.
 
I just got told I was going to hell because I have had girlfriends, by a Muslim female from the U.K.

Religion is crazy.

Then again sometimes I don't know how great all of our 'freedoms' really are. But, I don't want them restricted. I want the freedom to go to hell on my own terms. But I can see why 'they' want to restrict things, and want things in certain order, and how certain hell comes.
 
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Bardeaux said:
This is the kind of immature stubbornness that lead to threads beating a dead horse for 20 pages. Concession is a part of the discussion. Unless you'd rather take the finger in the ears "I can't hear you" approach.
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If the mods institute a strict no bitching, backbiting, snide comments or personal attacks policy I would happily sign up on that.
 
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Comments can get under anyone's guard

Middleway said:
If the mods institute a strict no bitching, backbiting, snide comments or personal attacks policy I would happily sign up on that.
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Comments can get under anyone's guard, particularly on the internet. Ad hominem attacks
can be given sudden public prominence. Only if you happen to be looking, of course (and
that probably only runs into the hundreds), but that’s not the point. :sus:
 
Oh... Sheezak seemed much too civil, and the posting style didn't seem to fit the same. I'm also used to being attacked, and that hadn't happened. But I don't know.
 
When the dust finally settles, we may find that IS has given the world a lasting, if expensive, gift: the long-overdue Islamic Reformation.

I thought this article raised a decent point.

Responses to IS include abhorrence, NATO alliances and air strikes. The deeper result may, however, be far more consequential: a reassessment on the part of Muslims of their religion, of that 1.6 billion minus the few thousand IS hardcore literalists.

And indeed this is happening already, on platforms ranging from academic forums to social media. Things are being articulated, questions boldly raised, daring hypotheses uttered, breaking a generations-long silence.

Take, as just one example, the article by Turkish scholar Necla Kelek: Muslims, she says, have neglected to develop habits of critical analysis and discourse, and instead have favored “taqlid,” the practice of blindly accepting whatever came before. This has given free reign to the regressive thinking of the Salafists. “Peace-loving Muslims will forever be helpless against the fundamentalists unless they begin to define the Quran, too, as a historical text subject to inquiry, critique and doubt.
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^It restarted talks of cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It could strengthen the middle east, ultimately. Hopefully.
 
IS allows for no such blandishments. IS wants no part of any religion of peace, which leaves us with two possibilities: either IS is not Islamic, or Islam is not peaceful
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Clearly it is the latter which is what I've been saying for years. Good article!
 
I don't know... IPs can be faked. He made a post in the other thread that sounded an awful lot like him. I guess we will know when/if bp returns.
 
Bardeaux said:
This is the kind of immature stubbornness that lead to threads beating a dead horse for 20 pages. Concession is a part of the discussion. Unless you'd rather take the finger in the ears "I can't hear you" approach.
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What 23 said:
I don't know... IPs can be faked. He made a post in the other thread that sounded an awful lot like him. I guess we will know when/if bp returns.
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Really? All that hard left dribble sounds the same to me.
 
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