Why ISIS fight

[TubbyTubby]

An interesting article about the Jihadis uprising in Syria. While the fundi Christians get excited about their rapture prophecies, their Muslim counterparts are actively arranging for one of their own to be realised.
 
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/se...syria-iraq

 

"One of the earliest sayings of the Prophet Muhammad – a hadith – mentions Dabiq as the location of a fateful showdown between Christians and Muslims which will be a precursor to the apocalypse. According to another prophecy, this confrontation will come after a period of truce between Muslims and Christians, during which Muslims – and only puritanical Sunnis fit the definition – would fight an undefined enemy, which in northern Syria today is deemed to be “Persians”.

“The Hour will not be established until the Romans [Christians] land at Dabiq,” the hadith says. “Then an army from Medina of the best people on the earth at that time will leave for them … So they will fight them. Then one third of [the fighters] will flee; Allah will never forgive them. One third will be killed; they will be the best martyrs with Allah. And one third will conquer them; they will never be afflicted with sorrow. Then they will conquer Constantinople.”

Nusra in April 2013, Abu Muhammad, the Lebanese fighter who had tried to detain me in northern Syria, was killed while participating in an attack on a regime air base near the Turkish border. He had foreshadowed his own death during our long conversation two months earlier. “I want this more than you want life,” he had said. “This is our destiny.”
 
We talked more about his belief that those who lived in a western economy, earned a wage, paid taxes and took part in a community life that was not Islamic were just as deviant as those who had renounced their faith. For him, there was no room for compromise on what made a person worthy of an afterlife, or eternal damnation.

[robvalue]

Religious wars seem to be the same as gang wars.

The main difference is the gangs often can't remember why they are fighting; the religious warriors carry their reason around at all times.

[Iroscato]

A part of me I'm rather ashamed to admit exists wonders how their prophecies would factor in being obliterated by nuclear strikes.

[robvalue]

Allah is proven weaker and weaker every time one of them feels the need to act on Allah's behalf.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

A part of me I'm rather ashamed to admit exists wonders how their prophecies would factor in being obliterated by nuclear strikes.

We have some wonderful drugs that will eliminate them without all of the collateral damage.  The fight could be over in a week if we wanted it to be.