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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Comment on Boko Haram and ISIS

Recently Boko Haram has been in and out of the news for kidnapping a bunch of girls who were trying to get an education.  ISIS has been in the news for mass murders and trying to establish what they call an Islamic state.  I do not hold my self out as an expert on Islam, but I have a number of friends who are educated Muslims. As a student of religion (among other things) I am familiar with some of the teachings and history of Islam.  I know enough to know that both of these groups represent people who have little knowledge of the teachings of Muhammad, or don't care.  They forbid the education of women, while Muhammad encouraged education for everyone. They wage war against Christians, which Muhammad strictly forbids. Of course, the history of Islam is one of heretics using the name of Muhammad to wage war.  Main-stream Christianity (Muhammad thought that what he was teaching is true Christianity) has seen the same problem.  Adolf Hitler thought that he was a Christian.  Boko Haram is to Islam as Hitler was to Christianity.

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