Yesterday, President Obama said one of his reasons for not identifying Islamic Terrorists as Islamic (he won't say Radical Islam, has altered official anti-terrorist training documentation to remove all references to Islamic Terrorism, and forbidden his administration from putting the words Islam, Islamic, or Muslim in conjunction with the word terrorism) is that identifying this particular source of terror would ramp up recruitment by ISIS.
Recruitment from what source?
So far, we know that ISIS has recruited from Islam - tens of thousands of Muslims from all over the world.
Obama just said that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and is a religion of peace that believes in compassion and love for all mankind.
So he and like-thinkers say that if you call Radical Islamic Terrorism what it is, then large numbers of Muslims (who we are told only worship peace and love mankind) will suddenly forget everything we're told they believe in and be lured to ISIS with promises that they'll be able to behead little children, gang-rape little girls, behead bound captives and massacre entire villages of people.
I'm confused by this "logic."
Why would anyone raised to believe in peace and belonging to a religion that is all about peace be attracted to a group that gives them the opportunity to leave their loving religious community of compassion to torture & kill innocent people in the most heinous ways?
And how has ISIS recruited tens of thousands of adherents to the religion-of-peace from all over the world?
If the "rewards" of becoming an evil genocidal killer only appeal to psychotics who are mentally unbalanced or individuals who did too many drugs, then why hasn't ISIS recruited similar large numbers from all other religions (since mental illness is not limited to any one group of people)? Yet we don't know of too many Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Shintos, Baha'is, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, or Taoists being recruited by ISIS because of the promise to become a mass murderer.
We might also say it's a cultural thing --- ISIS has nothing to do with the ideology of Islam, they just happen to be attracting disenfranchised youth from poverty-stricken, third-world countries (and if these young people maybe just had jobs, there'd be no terrorism?)
But that is NOT the case - ISIS is attracting and recruiting tens of thousands of Muslims from all over the world, even from the U.S. (one of the most prosperous, well-educated countries on Earth with the highest standard of living).
So that theory is shot.
So what's the common denominator since ISIS isn't attracting any people from any other religions with the seduction that their members will be able to murder & maybe, after enough genocide, rule the world?
If Islam is a religion of peace that does NOT have any beliefs of supremacy through conquest, then WHY are tens of thousands of Muslims from all over the world streaming to join ISIS?
How are these Muslims being recruited in such numbers when we are told Islamic Terror groups have absolutely nothing to do with Islam, they are universally hated by Muslims and everything they do is completely antithetical to the teachings of Islam?
If Islam is about peace, how are groups like ISIS attracting even a few Muslims, no less tens of thousands from all over the world?
Recruitment from what source?
So far, we know that ISIS has recruited from Islam - tens of thousands of Muslims from all over the world.
Obama just said that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and is a religion of peace that believes in compassion and love for all mankind.
So he and like-thinkers say that if you call Radical Islamic Terrorism what it is, then large numbers of Muslims (who we are told only worship peace and love mankind) will suddenly forget everything we're told they believe in and be lured to ISIS with promises that they'll be able to behead little children, gang-rape little girls, behead bound captives and massacre entire villages of people.
I'm confused by this "logic."
Why would anyone raised to believe in peace and belonging to a religion that is all about peace be attracted to a group that gives them the opportunity to leave their loving religious community of compassion to torture & kill innocent people in the most heinous ways?
And how has ISIS recruited tens of thousands of adherents to the religion-of-peace from all over the world?
If the "rewards" of becoming an evil genocidal killer only appeal to psychotics who are mentally unbalanced or individuals who did too many drugs, then why hasn't ISIS recruited similar large numbers from all other religions (since mental illness is not limited to any one group of people)? Yet we don't know of too many Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Shintos, Baha'is, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, or Taoists being recruited by ISIS because of the promise to become a mass murderer.
We might also say it's a cultural thing --- ISIS has nothing to do with the ideology of Islam, they just happen to be attracting disenfranchised youth from poverty-stricken, third-world countries (and if these young people maybe just had jobs, there'd be no terrorism?)
But that is NOT the case - ISIS is attracting and recruiting tens of thousands of Muslims from all over the world, even from the U.S. (one of the most prosperous, well-educated countries on Earth with the highest standard of living).
So that theory is shot.
So what's the common denominator since ISIS isn't attracting any people from any other religions with the seduction that their members will be able to murder & maybe, after enough genocide, rule the world?
If Islam is a religion of peace that does NOT have any beliefs of supremacy through conquest, then WHY are tens of thousands of Muslims from all over the world streaming to join ISIS?
How are these Muslims being recruited in such numbers when we are told Islamic Terror groups have absolutely nothing to do with Islam, they are universally hated by Muslims and everything they do is completely antithetical to the teachings of Islam?
If Islam is about peace, how are groups like ISIS attracting even a few Muslims, no less tens of thousands from all over the world?
Last edited by Captain Steel; 11-18-15 at 12:59 AM.