ISIS Is... What?

ISIS is what it is. It is a terror organisation that appears, from what evidence there is, to have been inspired and funded by a Western organisation or government.

What evidence? Well, admittedly uncorroborated and purely at my personal whim but…

Personal curiosity wonders why a supposedly Islamic group have chosen to terrorise a neighbourhood that borders on Israel when their (presumed) worst enemy escapes without a single shot fired in that direction.

Instead of the obvious choice of victim, the ISIS brigades have chosen to go into battle against what might appear to be fellow Muslims.

One wonders why this should be.

If they are an Islamic group then they should follow the edicts laid down in the Holy Qr’an and refrain from the killing of innocents and the destruction of places of worship.

Muslims are ordered to spare non-combatants and all places of worship; this includes mosques, temples, churches and, even, synagogues.

Further to this, it is ordained within the pages of the Holy Qr’an, that “your religion is yours and my religion is mine…” I have paraphrased that a little but that is, essentially, what it says.

There is, it goes on to say, freedom of religion. Nobody is forcing you to adopt any other religion and this applies in particular to Islam. Why is it, do you think, that Islam does not have missionaries?

You will possibly respond by saying that Islam converts people by the sword but that clashes with the instruction given in the Holy Book about “no compulsion in religion”.

It seems that there are those who wish to cast a blight on others. There are those who wish to use religion, of all stripes, for personal and political gain. Sometimes it is for personal AND political gain, no doubt.

Thus it comes to me that ISIS is not only a vicious gang of thugs out for personal glory but that they do so at the behest of certain Western powers. Certainly they appear to be well provided for in terms of firepower – from what source do these weapons come?

Yes, I hear those of you that will say that ISIS declares itself to be Islamic but where is the proof? They do not conform to Islamic law and so the old proverb applies:
“You can put a pig in a dress and call it Madam but still it remains a pig.”

Islamophobia reigns supreme and, certainly, there are plenty of cases where those who mock and point fingers are justified in doing so. But this applies equally to other religions, too. Where humans control the ideas of believers of all kinds then there will be distortions; there will be interpretations that are opposite to the original teachings; there will be misdeeds carried out in the name of their religion.

The average person is not highly educated in the words of their particular belief. It becomes clear from entries on ‘Facebook’, for example, that the majority of people have ‘cut and paste’ ideas – following those that appeal to them personally, rather than what may be construed as ‘the truth’.

It is those people who are aimed at by the religious leaders who wish to twist the views of their followers.

On another note, but on similar lines, I have observed yet another misuse of the English language creeping into popularity.

This is idea of ‘grooming’.

It has been used in association with paedophiles and with religious groups.

‘Grooming’ is preparing someone for a pleasant experience; it is preparing a horse, or other animal, for show – like a ‘bridegroom’!

The process of gradually altering someone’s mindset to perform nasty deeds as paedophiles and terrorists do is not ‘grooming’ it is brainwashing; it is distorting the truth to suit a personal need or a perceived benefit that is to the demise of other, possibly innocent, persons.

That, dear reader, is where we came in at the top of the page.