Are IS islamic?

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We also have Christian inquisition, Christian crusades, Christian fanatics, Christian morons, Christian terrorists.

Oh come on... they are facts from history... wake up my friend!

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This is what my problem is, yes we had crusades, and crucifixions etc, but we are in the 21st century.... and it doesn't happen... Christianity is now happy clappy, whereas Islam is still murderous !

Okay this in no way a defense of Islam and I feel like Islam is the biggest threat to overall human happiness and to freedom of speech/expression on the planet today. However you are just factually wrong when it comes to the idea that there are no Christian terrorists today. Even most people on the boards when they think of Christian terrorism normally think of the largely inactive IRA or the extremely rare abortion clinic bombing. I think both you and they would benifit largely from thinking about areas in the world that are not part of the western world. Africa, for example, is full of Christian terrorists. There Christian militant groups who do horrific crimes against humanity. It has minimal affect on us here in the west, so we tend not to think about them very much but it has monstrous and horrible consequences on those in the region and the motives of those people are very much steeped in their Christian ideology.

I agree that the crusades and such are poor examples but they are examples that are given from people who have a western mindset and don't really look at news or are aware of events in the third world. Keep in mind also that the third world is most of the world. In fact we here in the comfy western world at the exception to the norm, not the norm itself.