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At least 138 killed in Burkina Faso attacks

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More violence by Islamic terrorists and militants.

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The teaching of religion 'especially the Islamic version' are not compatible with a modern civilized society. If you think I am being insensitive or wrong, I suggest you read the koran and some of its outdated and barbaric views and teachings.

Now, I know that 99.9% of muslims are kind and compassionate people and they 'ignore' the obvious outdated and cruel contents of their teachings. The trouble is, the 0.01% fanatics take all the teachings as being fact, which is terrifying. Ask them what they think of non-believers. Also ask them what the punishment is in their book for non-believers or those who decide to leave Islam. If you don't know what they're taught, you in for a surprise.

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towingthelineToday  09:59 am JST

The teaching of religion 'especially the Islamic version' are not compatible with a modern civilized society. If you think I am being insensitive or wrong, I suggest you read the koran and some of its outdated and barbaric views and teachings.

Now, I know that 99.9% of muslims are kind and compassionate people and they 'ignore' the obvious outdated and cruel contents of their teachings. The trouble is, the 0.01% fanatics take all the teachings as being fact, which is terrifying. Ask them what they think of non-believers. Also ask them what the punishment is in their book for non-believers or those who decide to leave Islam. If you don't know what they're taught, you in for a surprise.

Absolutely.

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A good and very fair post, towingtheline.

I was sad to see that a single brave volunteer was killed trying to help. Quote: "The massive attack by suspected jihadists came hours after another attack Friday evening on Tadaryat village in the same region in which 14 people were killed, including an armed volunteer who had come to help them."

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Where do the militants get there support and funding? Who funds the Mosque building? The radical Imams? Which charities either directly of indirectly fund the weapons?

This is the 64 million dollar question that every single government in the world knows the answer to but does nothing.

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Mr Kipling, and the answer is...? (They are Sunnis, so it's not Iran.)

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Now, I know that 99.9% of muslims are kind and compassionate people and they 'ignore' the obvious outdated and cruel contents of their teachings

A great example of "the obvious outdated and cruel contents of their teachings" is the Old Testament. A bloodier book has not been written. Surround a city and kill everyone inside? That was what god supposedly told the Israelites if one is to believe it. Sorry but every religion is outdated and cruel. That people kill over centuries old religious fairy tales is disgusting.

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This is the 64 million dollar question that every single government in the world knows the answer to but does nothing.

I want to know where the Daesh pukes get all those new Toyota trucks when the defense forces are limping along on decades old models.

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No, its not Iran. But they do have a lot of oil, no democracy and terrible human rights.

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Desert TortoiseToday  02:19 pm JST

I want to know where the Daesh pukes get all those new Toyota trucks when the defense forces are limping along on decades old models.

Daesh, which even the left-leaning UN designates as a terrorist group, is another Islamic jihadist faction causing terror, like its brethren Hamas, that watches its people live in squalor on lands it tries to steal from Israelis citizens, forcing Israel to defend itself against people who took their homes and land because they had the wrong religion and so Israelis must fight to the death to protect what is rightfully theirs as given to them by the UN.

In Burkina Faso, Iraq, Syria, and the PT, the terrorist regimes thrive with support from the obvious suspects.

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Desert TortoiseJune 6  02:18 pm JST

A great example of "the obvious outdated and cruel contents of their teachings" is the Old Testament. A bloodier book has not been written. Surround a city and kill everyone inside? That was what god supposedly told the Israelites if one is to believe it. Sorry but every religion is outdated and cruel. That people kill over centuries old religious fairy tales is disgusting.

Pure anti-semitism. This post belongs to Nazi-era propaganda.

Comparing modern day terrorist groups, including one that just killed 138 civilians operating under a form of Islamic fundamentalism that even Islamists believe is implicit of violence with an ancient religious text description of possible historical events, which are not the foundation of modern day Jewish ideology is pure filth and hatred.

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Comparing modern day terrorist groups, including one that just killed 138 civilians operating under a form of Islamic fundamentalism that even Islamists believe is implicit of violence with an ancient religious text description of possible historical events, which are not the foundation of modern day Jewish ideology is pure filth and hatred.

Where in my post did I say anything about Judaism? Nowhere. The Torah is only the first five of the old testaments 45 books, My critique was of Christianity. To quote John Adams:

"But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed"

I had to read the writings of Adams, James Madison and Thomas Payne to understand put voice to my own reservations about that religion. They clarified for me what I already knew in my heart and am frankly amazed to see that people in their time, the Age of Reason, were so vocal in their criticisms of religion. But then the US was founded on a rejection of all things European and that include Europe's state sponsored religion.

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Desert TortoiseToday  07:09 am JST

Where in my post did I say anything about Judaism?

My critique was of Christianity. 

An article about Islamic violence and then you want to write about ancient "Israelites" surrounding a city and killing everyone inside?

Desert TortoiseJune 6  02:18 pm JST

Surround a city and kill everyone inside? That was what god supposedly told the Israelites if one is to believe it.

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