ISIS: Remaining and Expanding

[Magda Hassan]

The groundwork for this awful mess of political and religious horrors sweeping through the Middle East was laid laid deeply by the United States during 35 years (1979-2014) of overthrowing the secular governments of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

This. Definitely this. I trace it back to Afghanistan when the US began setting up the Madrasses in Pakistan and writing the religious wing nut version of Islam text books to counter secular education in Afghanistan (also secular USSR education). It was also the same time the lunatic fundamental version of some Christian brand was being created in the US.

After seeing several ISIS videos on the Internet, filled with the most disgusting scenes, particularly against women, my thought is this: Give them their own country; everyone who's in that place now who wants to leave, will be helped to do so; everyone from all over the world who wants to go there will be helped to get there. Once they're there they can all do whatever they want, but they can't leave without going through a rigorous interview at a neighboring border to ascertain whether they've recovered their attachment to humanity. However, since very few women, presumably, would go there, the country would not last very long.

Agreed. Some thing worth supporting. Will have to be an island though. Or the moon. If they can send one man to the moon why not these men? Only trouble is like Christianity Islam is a colonialist religion. It is not content to practice within its own community but seeks to interfere with others to convert them and make them speak their so called god approved language and cultural rituals of dress and food and social relations etc. destroying local languages and customs and mores. Like all colonialists they will just conquer and take the women regardless.