Comments on: The Islamic State: Is History Rhyming?

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:39:00 +0000

In reply to Jim Fleetwood. 2000 year ago that is where the similarities end. If you are justifying an act because it happened 2000 years ago then you really have no base for argument. The Quran does state that if labeled an apostate then death is possible.

By: vinsin

vinsin — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:23:00 +0000

In reply to Jim Fleetwood. Let the Muslim decide whether they have to do with Quran or not. Currently a lot of Muslims around the world are supporting them, and if they grow many more will join them.

By: vinsin

vinsin — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:20:00 +0000

In reply to capi_adonay. Most poor people are in India.

By: Jim Fleetwood

Jim Fleetwood — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 04:27:00 +0000

A very well written piece on the Wahabis and Saud. A there is a one significant hole in this that the authors should have taken more care to research. Violating enemy women is not spelled out in the Quran. It does allow them to be taken as maids, but that doesn’t translate to violation. Nor is this position unique to the Quran. Other religions also condoned this sort of behavior 2000 years ago. The bible also states ‘As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves’. The holy books at the time were taking the position of what was common practice in wars in that era.
Neither has a place in today’s society. But to imply that this is in the Quran and that ISIS is just
following whats written is no excuse for ISIS behavior. Had the Iraqi’s been not as corrupt and not spent the 7 years flushing out Sunnis out ofmilitary and not wasted my taxpayer $25BN that was used to train them, and stood their ground in Mosul against the 3,500 ISIS instead of
running away, we would not even know or care who ISIS is.

By: capi_adonay

capi_adonay — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 21:32:00 +0000

Poverty, ignorance and smart or clever guys manipulating them. The history of humanity.

By: SFGale

SFGale — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:30:00 +0000

It seems curious, or more appropriately dubious, that the US must lead in the endeavor of pushing back ISIS and rendering it to the dustbin of history. It would seem that Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey have more than enough shared motivation to clean up their own neighborhood. And they’ve got the toys.

By: montana83

montana83 — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:48:00 +0000

The Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. I know this because Obama, Cameron and other European leaders said so. They are super intelligent and wouldn’t lie.

By: colleenclark

colleenclark — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:28:00 +0000

I heard a young member of the Saudi government – not, I think, a member of the royal family – say at a ‘closed seminar’ at a university that the roots of ISIS reach back to the earliest days of Islam. I thought this was ironic because one of the ‘explanations’ for the rise of ISIS is promotion by Saudi Arabia. But now Saudi Arabia is concerned because, of course, he said, ISIS will eventually want the holy sites, which lie in the modern state of Saudi Arabia. Curiouser and curioser. Much is opaque to western eyes. As for the centrality of the modern state of Iraq, I remind outsiders that the Sunni-Shia split in Islam began in 680 AD in Kerbala, in southern Mesopotamia, now in Iraq.