"ISIS is not Islamic

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I think it is a feeble attempt to cover the embarrassment that murderous people are drawing their inspiration from the same texts that a nice Muslim does, and they spread exactly the same oral myth that these books are somehow magically "the word of God". If you subscribe to such nonsense in the first place, you have to be prepared for other people to make up slightly different nonsense and put it in the same category. Religion is about fantasy not reality, so none of it is "true" anything. You can't have correct and incorrect fantasy.

In the interests of personal freedom, a secular society lets you state your religious views, however ludicrous, and lets you practice whatever bizarre rituals you want as long as you're not hurting anyone or forcing it on others. People who go around killing using their religion as their explanation are breaking secular law, but they don't stop being part of their religion. Just like if I'm a member of a golf club and I break all the "rules", I'm still a member of the golf club, until such time as I'm kicked out. However, no one can be kicked out of a religion. That is what the protection of religious freedom is all about. Nonsense in, nonsense out.