Another view of the Thoughts of Al Quaida

[dutchie]

I find your comments extremely poorly informed about the nature of the CF.

And I find your comments to be bang-on regarding the nature of the CF.

Not to stroke your ego or anything. 

 

[2 Cdo]

As a soldier some troops need to be reminded what their job entails, and I'm not referring to peacekeeping! Remember a little phrase "To close with and destroy the enemy". I'll put it into laymans terms "To hunt and kill the bastards".

 

[Gunnerlove]

Seems like the same reason Christianity took off like a structure fire in Rome. The promise of an afterlife with the ability to earn a place in Heaven. 

A little bit of history repeating, again? Or is that just me being a crazy left wing nut?

 

[paracowboy]

Seems like the same reason Christianity took off like a structure fire in Rome. The promise of an afterlife with the ability to earn a place in Heaven.  

A little bit of history repeating, again? Or is that just me being a crazy left wing nut?

history repeating itself, certainly. But not the time frame you're referring to. If we wanted to equate a time period of Islam to the beginnings of Christianity in Rome, I'd argue that would be the incredibly rapid spread of Islam throughout the (now) ME. I think what we're seeing in Islam today, is their Reformation.

(edited because I apparently have forgotten how to spell "certainly"   : )

(oh, man, again!)

 

[Acorn]

Christianity took off in Rome because the Emperor liked it.

paracowboy, we may be seeing the Islamic Reformation, but if so it's at its earliest stage. Ironically, if Sunnis and Shias didn't have Israel and the West to concentrate on, they'd probably be killing each other.

Acorn

 

[paracowboy]

Christianity took off in Rome because the Emperor liked it.

paracowboy, we may be seeing the Islamic Reformation, but if so it's at its earliest stage. Ironically, if Sunnis and Shias didn't have Israel and the West to concentrate on, they'd probably be killing each other.

Acorn

Acorn, I do think this is the earliest stages of their "Reformation".
And once, either Sunni or Shia had triumphed, they'd start on Sufi's.  :

 

[Acorn]

Acorn, I do think this is the earliest stages of their "Reformation".
And once, either Sunni or Shia had triumphed, they'd start on Sufi's.   :

Agreed, though they'd probably do for the Sufis first, then the Alawi, the Druze, the Ismaili etc. etc.

Not much different from Christian divisions....

Acorn

 

[couchcommander]

Interestingly this (whatever you want to call it, I think an early islamic "reformation" is a fair title) is happening approxmiately 1500 years from the birth of Islam....the same amount of time between the birth of Christianity and the beginnings of the reformation (which, so I can be lazy, I put at 1517... though of course it's origins run deeper...)

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Coincidence or is there something to that...what do you guys think?