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snagglepuss

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2. Does anyone believe ISIL's beheadings is... an effort to promote Islam? YES

Reply to Attorney in Texas (Original post)

Thu Nov 19, 2015, 06:30 PM

Nov 2015

Though promote is too gentle a word, coerce, subjugate would be better.

It's stated goal is to create an Islamic caliphate and to impose conversion of those who do not embrace their kind of Islam i.e. Shias, Kurds, Hazaris, Christians etc and to ethically others like Yazidids.

These are their stated goals and this is what they have carried out so of course their actions are to "promote" Islam.

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Were Irish Catholics and Northern Irish Protestants attacking each other fighting over autonomy and [View all] Attorney in Texas Nov 2015 OP

Either way, we accepted a lot of their refugees during the Troubles. Brickbat Nov 2015 #1

Not so much? Spider Jerusalem Nov 2015 #11

Does anyone believe ISIL's beheadings is... an effort to promote Islam? YES snagglepuss Nov 2015 #2

However, the more we have been hearing about the lives these terrorists lead, they smirkymonkey Nov 2015 #7

It's their Islam in the same way Iran has it's own Islam which differs snagglepuss Nov 2015 #15

Don't they all forbid living like a drunken slob who has no knowledge or smirkymonkey Nov 2015 #17

Respect for their religion is a loaded term. Many Muslims believe that leaving Islam is snagglepuss Nov 2015 #19

A caliphate is a governmental unit. The creation of a caliphate is the promotion of the caliph and Attorney in Texas Nov 2015 #9

Really what are you smoking? The purpose of the Caliphate is to impose snagglepuss Nov 2015 #16

A Mullah, an Imam, or an Ayatollah can impose Islamic law. A Caliph acting within his Caliphate Attorney in Texas Nov 2015 #18

Well, there is an ethnic component to that one as well KamaAina Nov 2015 #3

Depends on when they were fighting. Warren Stupidity Nov 2015 #4

Remembering past election cycles, Nixon with Vietnam and Downwinder Nov 2015 #5

The troubles in Northern Ireland were and are economical. TexasProgresive Nov 2015 #6

Yes, my understanding was that it was mostly ethnic, political and economic and smirkymonkey Nov 2015 #8

I've always referred to the 2 sides a Scot and Irish. TexasProgresive Nov 2015 #12

Agreed. It was a bloody dispute where neither side believed that a car bomb was the best technique Attorney in Texas Nov 2015 #14

Apples and grapefruit. H2O Man Nov 2015 #10

Are you calling the IRA or ISIL "apples"? Attorney in Texas Nov 2015 #20

Well, H2O Man Nov 2015 #21

You can probably get away with some vague reference to Matt Damon's character in Good Will Hunting Attorney in Texas Nov 2015 #22

True. H2O Man Nov 2015 #23

I've got blood in "The Troubles." hunter Nov 2015 #13