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Originally Posted by x-factor
It was a bit of a tangent in response to JustinW20's post, which I took to be promoting the idea that jihadists are really just authoritarian ideologues cynically dressed up in religious terminology. I agree with you that their motivation, religious versus political, is irrelevant if they are committing a crime or an act of war.
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Actually (I may not have been clear), I meant that the Quaran, the Bible, the Torah, etc. were all noble books, but all had had been perverted throughout history to justify bloody actions against other "non-believers".
It can be argued, and I may be opening myself up here, that all religious books are, in essence political books. But that's a bit far off the topic of the thread...