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Exactly. Disagree about the latter bolded part.

It was actually quite the reverse. It was brought up in a middle of a discussion. I was trying to argue that what is considered mainstream Islam changed over the ages. At one point Sufism was almost standard (visiting the shrines of saints and doing Zikr was extremely widespread) and that a...

yeah but normally people use salafi or sunni. But I did run into people who identify as wahabbi and they are sunni - - - Updated - - - How long does it take for a migrant to get citizenship? Isnt it like 5 years in the US and 7 in Europe? Can non-citizens vote? - - - Updated - - - Each...

Wahhabism is a reformation within Sunni Islam they are Sunnis. It is a return to how the earliest muslims practiced Islam based on the Sunna (prophetic tradition). How on earth are wahabis not sunnis

are you really surprised that a terrorist attack by a group who claim to follow fundamental historical islamic texts, can become a conversation about Islamic History?

Every time an organized group like them pops up you destroy their state again. It wont be the end of jihadis but it would prevent them from becoming organized enough, popular enough and rich enough to displace whole populations of civilians and launching massive spectacular terror attacks in...

Oh I didnt notice you are from mexico. Trump's popularity does reveal the sentiments, in his giant base of fans, towards Mexicans. I wouldn't say they are voting for him because he said nasty stuff about Mexicans. I think they just don't mind what he said which is still troubling. If he comes...

Why is that bad news. Let the GOP and Democrats fall apart with trump and Sanders winning the primaries. They are practically independents who hijacked the two big parties. Trump and Sanders winning their primaries would change the way the game has been played for ages.

Getting financial and military support from the US during the cold war gave it a boost without a doubt but it did not invent these idea. Sayyid Qotb was one of the heads of the Muslim Brotherhood during the 50s (before the US support) and the brotherhood itself has been around for over 80 years...

Its not weak sourcing. Well it is in one sense (for serious historians) and it isn't (for most Sunni Muslim scholars). This article sources its material largely from the biography of the prophet. The biography was originally written by Ibn Ishaq but that was about 200 years after mohammed had...

:agree: this is the best piece I've read on ISIS since they began.

:lol: alright

I agree with you in principle namely that it is stupid to let in thousands of people into your country (let alone an internally open EU) without having the right vetting processes in place. This becomes more important when these people come from terror hotspots and when the terrorists themselves...

There is no shortage of radical or radicalizable muslims on the inside. If anything, most of the organization of the attacks is done by guys on the inside who know the country well and not some guy who has never been there before. The newcomers might bring some small pieces of equipment maybe or...

Its just a joke man. Though I do believe Islam (as in the ideas that Mohammed propagated as far as we know from his biography and the hadiths), regardless of whether most contemporary muslims believe or follow them or not, share a lot of similarities with ISIS and their ilk. Most things that...

Two terror attacks in Belgium, one in brussels airport and another in the city at a metrostation next to an EU building. The religion of peace is at it again. A piece of you over here and a piece of you over there.