{"id":13663,"date":"2014-09-13T00:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13663"},"modified":"2014-09-13T00:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:07:02","slug":"is-isis-islamic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/13\/is-isis-islamic\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ISIS Islamic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been hearing a not if noise of late from America\u2019s lunatic fringe, aka the Republican Party that we should be burning the Koran, forbidding the construction of mosques, expelling Muslims from the armed services, etc., because the conflict against ISIS is a conflict against Islam,  So let us ask, \u201cIs ISIS Islamic?\u201d  The following author says no.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0913isil\"<\/p>\n

Conservatives reacted harshly<\/a> to President Obama\u2019s claim on Wednesday night that the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) \u201cis not Islamic,\u201d accusing the commander-in-chief of naivet\u00e9 and ignorance. \u201cWhat kindergartner briefs the President on terrorism?\u201d Ron Christie, a GOP strategist tweeted. \u201cISIS says it\u2019s Islamic, lots of people say it\u2019s Islamic, only the president won\u2019t,\u201d George Will told Fox News shortly after the speech.<\/p>\n

But the full context of Obama\u2019s remark points to an important distinction between Islam and the extremist ideology that\u2019s sweeping parts of Iraq and Syria. \u201cNo religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL\u2019s victims have been Muslim,\u201d Obama said. \u201cISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, even from the viewpoint of a casual observer, ISIS is an abomination to Islam<\/strong>. Explosions tend to capture the media\u2019s attention more than peaceful coexistence, and a minuscule minority of extremist groups claiming to be Islamic have exploited this fact as a way to reinvent Islam as a \u201cviolent\u201d religion. But just because you shout God\u2019s name while committing murder doesn\u2019t make your actions righteous<\/strong>. Islam, as millions of Muslims can attest<\/a>, is a peaceful religion that calls on its followers to choose community over conflict, or, as it says in Surah al-Hujurat of the Qur\u2019an (49:13)<\/a>: \u201cO mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise [each other]).\u201d<\/p>\n

But ISIS clearly has little regard for this or other fundamental tenets of Islam\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

I fully agree.  ISIS has nothing in common with authentic Islam.  Their behavior is the opposite of Islam\u2019s most basic tenants.  If short, they are pseudo-Muslims.  Then, to whom can we righty compare them?<\/font><\/p>\n

Pseudo-Muslims are Dominionist.  They believe that a theocracy should rule over the smallest details of people\u2019s personal lives.  In that way, they are just like Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians.  Pseudo-Muslims have formed violent militias.  In that way they are just like Republican Supply-side pseudo Christians.  Note that the Bundy militia shares the above graphic with ISIS.  It\u2019s hard to tell them apart.  Pseudo-Muslims execute people they consider unclean.  In that way they are just like Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, who have called for the death penalty for gays, and US Republican Senators and Congressmen actually helped Ugandan pseudo-Christians draft a law to execute gays.  Thank God it failed!<\/font><\/p>\n

A pattern is emerging here.  Religion is not the problem.  Authentic Muslims and authentic Christians get along just fine.  The problems come, when extremists with a political agenda hijack a religion to impose authority over others, usually through violently enforced piety codes.<\/font><\/p>\n

Be warned.  There is one major difference between pseudo-Muslims and pseudo-Christians.  The latter are here and have the support of the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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