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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
It's not a tiny fraction of zealots though, just look at the polls that were posted earlier in the thread. Sure a small fraction of muslims are the ones who act out violently, but a much larger number support the ideas of sharia law and violence against non-believers. And then you have states like Saudi Arabia, who in public denounce killings like this, but in private fund terrorist groups and fully enforce sharia law to a barbaric extent. This from the "closest ally" the west has in the region
Then you add in that the Koran is a much more violent text than in any other modern religion, and it's not hard to see why groups like ISIS have such an easy time finding recruits. There are millions of good people in the world who are Muslims, living here has allowed me to interact with quite a few. But the teachings they follow are deeply flawed
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Of course the fact 'we' have spent the past 100 years screwing with the Middle East, culminating with the horrendously cack handed invasion of Iraq, also makes it pretty easy to get young Muslim men to want to strike back.