RE: "ISIS is not Islamic
January 19, 2016 at 1:38 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2016 at 1:38 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(January 19, 2016 at 1:34 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Not to over-generalize from a small sample, just a tidbit: a journalist held captive for 10+ months by ISIS (Didier Francois) remarked that his captors seemed to be way more about politics than religion.
I get what you're trying to say, and there have been other reports of ISIS members not knowing a lot about the koran or not reading it very much. But so what? Do you think the huge numbers of fundamentalist evangelicals in the US know a lot about the bible? It's kind of their calling card that they don't know a lot about the bible and are way more focused on political ideas (see gay marriage, abortion, aid to israel, etc). But I doubt you would say that they aren't christian. They would certainly call themselves christian (like ISIS calls itself islamic).
That they aren't biblical or koranic scholars doesn't really have anything to do with whether or not they're christian or islamic.
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