Salon Says ISIS Really Is Islamic…Wait, What?

One can usually depend on Salon to be the unhinged of the unhinged for the Left-side of the Internet, kinda like Moonbat² (squared). Yet, somehow, this article, originally posted at Alternet, another far left site, actually ended up in Salon, and makes an astonishing admission

6 keys to understanding ISIS’ barbaric brand of nihilism

The latest terrorist attacks by ISIS have changed the 2016 presidential race, sparking a range of predictable reactions across the partisan spectrum, from “Fortress America” stances from Republicans to Democrats pushing to create a new international coalition and combined military response.

But most Americans, especially those running for president, do not really understand what ISIS is about: what they believe and seek, why they are so bloody, how they lure recruits from abroad, and why they are now striking in Paris and Beirut. Last winter, the Atlantic’s Graeme Wood spent weeks with ISIS defenders, sympathetic clerics and academics overseas before writing a revelatory profile, “What ISIS Really Wants.” (snip)

What follows are six key takeaways from Wood’s reporting, updated from a previous AlterNet report.

1. ISIS is Islamic. There are many experts in the West and the Middle East, from academics to other conservative Islamics, who, like President Obama, have said ISIS is not Islamic or is a twisted distortion of the Muslim faith. That’s wrong. ISIS “follows a distinctive form of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy,” Wood writes, explaining that they are not like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, or even Al Qaeda under bin Laden, but akin to “the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.”

ISIS lives by the most literal translation of the Koran imaginable, as revealed by Mohammed in the seventh century. A Christian analog would be living under the strict edicts in the Book of Leviticus.

“Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and announcements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationary, and coins, ‘the Prophetic methodology,’ which means following the prophecy and example of Mohammed, in punctilious detail,” Wood writes. “But pretending that it isn’t actually a religion, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combated, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it.”

Salon has long shown a hatred for some religion, particularly Christians and Jews, while protecting all of Islam, portraying any condemnation of the extremists as an attack on all Muslims, with their favorite word “Islamophobia”.. Perhaps it is a turning point that they will go after ISIS in this manner, noting that they are, in fact, following what the Koran tells Muslims to do.

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