Will the Islamists kill Islam?

[The Grand Nudger]

I don;t know why people think that religiously motivated barbarism is going to turn people away from the religion.  All of the abrahamic faiths have engaged in barbarism, they grew -while- they did it, and continue to grow today.  Sometimes -because- of their barbarism, directly and indirectly. If holding a knife to youtr throat won;t compel you to their religious beliefs...something that might is the shittiness in the world around you due to their being nutballs holding knives to peoples throats. Religious institutions and groups have run the gamut of affrontery from inciting war, all the way "down"top being caught with their hands (and much, much more) in childrens pants....and it doesn't seem to make people fall away. We just don't work like that, as much as we might like to or think we should.  This will be rationalized and disassociated just as the religious have always done with their religions litany of offense, and that's assuming it isn't lionized or sanctified, which is just as likely..if not even slightly more so.

These people are already heroes to some, and with time they'll be heroes to many more, just as christian missionaries and crusaders are and have been despite the horrific shit they pulled. If they were catholics, they might get canonized ffs.