ISIS burns 8000 Rare books.

[grendel25]

What is funny is that they burn hundreds of books written by scholars, Christians, philosophers or whatever they feel doesn't agree with Islam.

But you burn one Quran and they cry cry cry.

C'mon man! Everyone knows that the ISIS have nothing to do with Islam.
What if......the ISIS uses Islam as a shield to cover up their terrorism?

Actually, that's wrong.  The self-proclaimed Islamic State is adhering to a very specific part of the Koran.  They believe they are fulfilling the prophecy by having a caliph and a caliphate.  Terrorism in Western eyes is just part of the old ways of practicing Islam so they believe they are following the rules of their religion by crucifying and beheading as that is what the Koran mandates as law under the caliphate. 

It's awful.

[bryant.coleman]

Organized religion is against science. Now it is ISIS burning rare manuscripts. A lot of knowledge accumulated over the past few millennium is now lost for ever. But this is not confirmed to the ISIS. There are some evangelical Christian sects who are much worse. In the Amazon region, these maniacs murder shamans, accusing them of preventing the local indigenous people from converting to Christianity. These shamans are some of the last people, who have knowledge about rare tribal medications, believed to provide cure to dreaded diseases such as cancer. Kill them, and those medications are lost for ever.

http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2012/07/fourteen-dead-shamans/

[RodeoX]

Another stupid aspect of this is that many of the works they burned were written by Muslim scholars from the past. When Europe was a forest full of dirty warlords Islam was flowering and making advances in science, medicine and mathematics. So not only are they burning our common human heritage, they are specifically burning their own history.

This fight is not Islam vs. the West. It is DASCH vs. the civilized world.

[Gronthaing]

What is funny is that they burn hundreds of books written by scholars, Christians, philosophers or whatever they feel doesn't agree with Islam.

But you burn one Quran and they cry cry cry.

C'mon man! Everyone knows that the ISIS have nothing to do with Islam.
What if......the ISIS uses Islam as a shield to cover up their terrorism?

Actually, that's wrong.  The self-proclaimed Islamic State is adhering to a very specific part of the Koran.  They believe they are fulfilling the prophecy by having a caliph and a caliphate.  Terrorism in Western eyes is just part of the old ways of practicing Islam so they believe they are following the rules of their religion by crucifying and beheading as that is what the Koran mandates as law under the caliphate. 

It's awful.

They are following a very specific part of the Quran. The part that they want and ignoring the rest. That's what extremists do. They don't represent Islam. Much less the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world.

ISIS want the people to go back to the stone age. So this is not surprising. They are against literacy, medicine and science. And still there are hundreds of millions of people who support them.

Hundreds of millions of people? In what world?

[username18333]

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Actually, that's wrong.  The self-proclaimed Islamic State is adhering to a very specific part of the Koran.  They believe they are fulfilling the prophecy by having a caliph and a caliphate.  Terrorism in Western eyes is just part of the old ways of practicing Islam so they believe they are following the rules of their religion by crucifying and beheading as that is what the Koran mandates as law under the caliphate.  

It's awful.

They are following a very specific part of the Quran. The part that they want and ignoring the rest. That's what extremists do. They don't represent Islam. Much less the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world.

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Everyone’s an “extremist” (Gronthaing) when its self-preservation goes unmetered (regardless of the veneer [e.g., “their religion” {grendel25}] utilized in the reconciliation thereof with one’s psychological conscious).

[(oYo)]

I'll bet they didn't burn one rare book in particular. 'The Anarchist Cookbook'.

[noma]

What exactly is the ISIS trying to achieve. Just read that this week they had also kidnapped 200 Christians. What do they plan to do next ?

If they execute them , I am sure it will bring widespread riots and police action into it.