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Originally posted by PurpleXVI:
Please don't conflate Al Qaeda or the insurgents with Islam in general. Islam that actually follows the Qu'ran has as much to do with Al Qaeda as Christianity had to do with Waco.
Not all Muslims follow, advocate or even like Sharia law.
Now, as for the beheading, the reason it's an insult is that it obviously shows no one even tried to give the man a dignified death. Don't you think Americans would take it differently whether I killed one or their soldiers in a gunfight or whether I cut open his corpse and used it as a toilet afterwards?
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Peaceful good citizen(by western standards) muslims are that way in spite of their religion, not because of it. Sharia is the system of laws dictated by mohammed to govern his empire based either on his direct word, his example, the koran, hadiths (mohammed's biographies), or sunna (islamic tradition, based primarily off of mohammed's example). Any muslim that dislikes sharia is no muslim at all, and if they proclaimed it at almost any mosque would either be barred as a heretic and infidel, or worse killed as an apostate. Do some reading, those who turn most fervently to "radical" islam are those who get more islam, who study it at great length, take a look at the London bombers, several of them were always radicalized, but most began studying islam more seriously making it a larger part of their life, until it was the only part of their life, and they felt that murdering dozens of innocents and injuring hundreds more was a moral act, because it was based on the instructions of their religion's founder.
Show me any middle eastern country that isn't a shithole and I'll move there, how about Kuwait, where I served for a year, if you're not a muslim and more specifically a Kuwaiti muslim, forget owning property, a car, a business, etc. It is arguably the most westernized country in the middle east and the most modern. It's still a shithole by the standards of anyone I met there (Brit's Aussies, Americans from all over the country, even compared to other assignments like Korea during the spring melt)