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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOur reaction to terrorist shootings? . . . Exactly what ISIS wants!
They want Christians to become radicalized against all Muslims which will help them recruit more jihadists.
This was number two in their major planning.
Number one was to have U.S.A. and its allies lash out indiscriminately at Arab nations after 9/11 and that was a success beyond their dreams.
Soon they'll be two-to-nothing, and we still haven't waken up.
still_one
(92,190 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Who cares if it is? Why should we assume that they're right in what they want, or that they've made good assessments about results?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)They did not exist before we invaded Iraq.
The did not exist before Syria disintegrated into a Civil War.
Unless ISIS was somehow linked to the Libyans in Back to the future and managed to get control of the Delorean or Doc Brown's flux capacitor, that is.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Most posts that start with that premise are wild conjectures.
valerief
(53,235 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)It's true. During the last pot-luck supper in November, my Presbyterian congregation (cabal) began by reading passages from Mein Kempf, wondering which jelly tastes best on infants and denied entrance to any female wearing anything other than sack cloth and ashes.
We were too busy being radicalized indeed. Good times, good times.
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)and it makes sense to me. I don't claim to know the answers on this but this vid can provide some food for thought.
valerief
(53,235 posts)skip fox
(19,359 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)They keep us fighting with each other over things like religion, while they get away with getting what they want - which is more guns on the streets.