The Atlantic: "The Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic."

Excerpt: "The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. ... the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam. (It is an ugly lie to say otherwise. - ed.) ... Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the group's theology, told me, 'embarrassed and politically correct, with a cotton-candy view of their own religion' that neglects 'what their religion has historically and legally required. ... According to Haykel, the ranks of the Islamic State are deeply infused with religious vigor. Koranic quotations are ubiquitous. 'Even the foot soldiers spout this stuff constantly,' Haykel said. 'They mug for their cameras and repeat their basic doctrines in formulaic fashion, and they do it all the time.' He regards the claim that the Islamic State has distorted the texts of Islam as preposterous, sustainable only through willful ignorance. 'People want to absolve Islam,' he said. 'It's this 'Islam is a religion of peace' mantra. As if there is such a thing as 'Islam'! It's what Muslims do, and how they interpret their texts.' Those texts are shared by all Sunni Muslims, not just the Islamic State. 'And these guys have just as much legitimacy as anyone else.'

All Muslims acknowledge that Muhammad's earliest conquests were not tidy affairs, and that the laws of war passed down in the Koran and in the narrations of the Prophet's rule were calibrated to fit a turbulent and violent time. In Haykel's estimation, the fighters of the Islamic State are authentic throwbacks to early Islam and are faithfully reproducing its norms of war. This behavior includes a number of practices that modern Muslims tend to prefer not to acknowledge as integral to their sacred texts. 'Slavery, crucifixion, and beheadings are not something that freakish [jihadists] are cherry-picking from the medieval tradition,' Haykel said. Islamic State fighters 'are smack in the middle of the medieval tradition and are bringing it wholesale into the present day.'

The Koran specifies crucifixion as one of the only punishments permitted for enemies of Islam. The tax on Christians finds clear endorsement in the Surah Al-Tawba, the Koran's ninth chapter, which instructs Muslims to fight Christians and Jews 'until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.' The Prophet, whom all Muslims consider exemplary, imposed these rules and owned slaves.

Leaders of the Islamic State have taken emulation of Muhammad as strict duty, and have revived traditions that have been dormant for hundreds of years."

The Imaginary Islamic Radical (Is There Really Such A Thing As A Moderate Muslim?) by Daniel Greenfield

But what makes an Islamic radical, extremist? Where is the line between ordinary Muslim practice and its extremist dark side?

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Obama Claimed Islam is Peaceful and Christianity Violent at Event Attended by Muslim Regime that Killed Christians

Obama says, "No God condones terror." Yet Muhammad is depicted in a hadith as having said: "I have been made victorious through terror" (Bukhari 4:52.220). And the Qur'an says: "Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemiesŠ" (8:60)

Those passages and others like them expose the vacuity of his invocation of the Crusades and Inquisition. Yes, indeed, in both, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. But in committing them, they could not and did not justify them by invoking Christian texts and teachings, because there were no such texts and teachings justifying those terrible deeds. That stands in sharp contrast to the Islamic jihadists who regularly invoke the Qur'an to justify their actions. - Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch

Obama Rebuilds Mosques While Churches Burn

Why Is the Islamic State (ISIS) Behaving So Brutally? by Robert Spencer (Free Online Article)

To the Very Hour! God's Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnisapience, Etc., On Display In the Perfect Historical Fulfillments Of Prophecies, In Revelation, Regarding the Rise, Expansion and Fall Of Islam (and Much More) By Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, W.J. Mencarow, John Owen, Greg Price, John Calvin, George Gillespie (Westminster Divine), J.A. Wylie, Richard Bennett, John Foxe, David Steele and Others (Free Christian MP3s, Videos and Books)

Islamic Jihad and Why So Many Politicians, Educators and the Media Don't Understand Islam or the Muslim Mind (Free Christian MP3s, Videos and Books)

Islam In The Bible by Dr. Francis Nigel Lee (Free Christian MP3s, Videos and Books)

Islam (Muslims) In Bible Prophecy, In the Book of Revelation (Free Christian MP3s, Videos and Books)

Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS) Burning Video Laced With Symbolism

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Burned Alive: Muslim Persecution of Christians by Raymond Ibrahim

Muslim's (Islam) Persecuting and Murdering Christians, Even Beheading Christian Children (Free MP3, Videos, etc.)

ISIS Burns Jordanian Pilot to Death

A Thousand Churches Destroyed By Islam in Nigeria

Islam in Revelation: An Historic Look at Protestant Eschatological Thought on the Rise and Fall of Islam by E. B. Elliott, Alexander M'Leod, David Steele et al.

Suppose Islam Had a Holocaust and No One Noticed by Daniel Greenfield

Muslims Sexually Enslaving Children: A Global Phenomenon By Raymond Ibrahim, Islam's Sex Jihad, and Much More (Free Christian MP3s, Books, Videos, Etc.)

Warning: Graphic Images of Murdered Christian Girl in Libya by Raymond Ibrahim

Islamic State Terrorists Slaughter 13 Teen Boys for Breaking One of Its Oppressive Islamic Laws

Excerpt: "For 13 teenage boys in the Iraqi city of Mosul, watching the Asian Cup soccer match between Iraq and Jordan would reportedly cost them their lives. Under the Islamic State's barbaric ideology, the act of watching the game on television was an offense punishable by death. The young boys were grabbed by terrorists and then publicly executed by a firing squad, according to the activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently. Before being shot to death by machine guns, the terrorists reportedly announced the boys' "crime" of breaking religious laws by watching sports over a loud speaker. The activist group added, "The bodies remained lying in the open and their parents were unable to withdraw them for fear of murder by terrorist organisation."

The Islamic State and Islam by Raymond Ibrahim

Muhammad and Islam's Sex Slaves by Raymond Ibrahim

Beheading Infidels: How Allah 'Heals the Hearts of Believers' by Raymond Ibrahim

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Muslim's (Islam) Persecuting and Murdering Christians, Even Beheading Christian Children (Free MP3, Videos, etc.)

Understanding Islamic Jihad, Islam, Sharia Law, Etc., by Dr. Peter Hammond and Others (Free Videos and MP3s)

Islam In The Bible by Dr. Francis Nigel Lee (Free MP3s and Books

Muslim Cleric Urges Destitute Women to Become Sex-Slaves By Raymond Ibrahim, The Sex Jihad, Dangers of Sharia Law, Islam in Revelation, etc.

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