Original post by QE2What? So Assad is the reason why ISIS feel justified in using caprive females for sex? And ISIS throw homosexuals from tall buildings and crucify opponents and execute prisoners (all permitted by the Quran or sunnah).
If you want to know why ISIS act the way they do, why don't you ask them? In the latest issue of Dabiq, they carefully and explicitly explain why, and provide references from the Quran and sunnah to support them. Simply parrotting the "Nothing to do with Islam" mantra is meaningless in the face of all the hard evidence.
And as for your earlier claims about Islam's peacefulness based on the behavious of some Muslims, why, then, do you not equally base your claims about the nature of Islam on the Muslims of ISIS, or AL, or Boko Haram? It seems that whoever and however Islam is defended, it is necessary to cherry-pick.
A very naive view of the situation. Sectarian divisions were (and are) fundamental in the creating of the warring parties - not just in the current conflict but historically. Why do you think Sunnis in Iraq are bombing Shia mosques, or why ISIS are attacking those that they consider to be apostates or munafiq? Why do you think Shia Iran has sided with the Shia Assad regime against a Sunni rebellion?
Indeed, if you claim it is the sole cause. But equally, denying that Islam is a major contributary factor is just as dunb and unrealistic
If the Quran contains "bad bits", and the Quran is perfect and applicable in its entirety, and to reject any verse is to commit kufr - or leave Islam (as Islam claims), then who is the "true Muslim"? The one who accepts it all or the one who ignores the bits he doesn't like?
OK. So how do you explain the many Islamist terrorist attacks that took place before the Syrian civil war, or the invasions of Iraq or Afghanistan? Why were Islamist groups attacking western targets before any of it happened?
Remember that military intervention in the ME was a response to Islamist terrorism, so it cannot be the cause of it!
And why are there so many Islamist terrorists and Muslims travelling to join ISIS who are well educated, second or third generation citizens of secular democracies? What is their motivation?