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Originally Posted by Russ
I guess that could explain it. I did initially think it sounded a bit too much like the passport of the 9/11 pilot having survived the fuel fire and rubble of 2 skyscrapers collapsing. A helpful guide as to which country would feel the wrath of revenge.
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Quite a lot of passports and paper survived from the 9/11 planes. The passport of the pilot wasn't atypical.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
I've been expressing this point of view for years.
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I don't think anyone thinks there isn't a problem with it but rather who we refer to when talking of Islam. Islam seems even more branched than Christianity with two major paths, Sunni and Shia, then further divided into other branches of which one of them,
Salafism, is the ideology that drives these people:
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The Salafi movement or Salafist movement is an ultra-conservative orthodox movement within Sunni Islam that references the doctrine known as Salafism. The doctrine can be summed up as taking "a fundamentalist approach to Islam, emulating the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers—al-salaf al-salih, the 'pious forefathers'...They reject religious innovation, or bida, and support the implementation of sharia (Islamic law)." The movement is often divided into three categories: the largest group are the purists (or quietists), who avoid politics; the second largest group are the activists, who get involved in politics; the smallest group are the jihadists, who form a tiny (yet infamous) minority.
The Salafi movement is often described as being synonymous with Wahhabism, but Salafists consider the term "Wahhabi" derogatory.At other times, Salafism has been described as a hybrid of Wahhabism and other post-1960s movements. Salafism has become associated with literalist, strict and puritanical approaches to Islam and – particularly in the West – with the Salafi jihadists, who espouse offensive jihad as a legitimate expression of Islam against those they deem to be enemies of Islam.
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At least that's my rather limited understanding of it. I don't many people in the West really understand the religion or the various groups within it. I would worry about trying to have any serious opinions on something I don't understand.