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To say ISIS aren’t muslims is to deny the danger of radicalized religion. People of the Ku Klux Klan are still protestants. People of the Westboro Baptist Church are still Christian. Religion has been the instigator of hatred for centuries, it has cause the deaths of millions, it has instilled bigotry, racism and misogyny into society for centuries. To deny the very real prejudice and destruction it puts into the world is disrespectful and just downright ignorant. Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism have all been the cause of wars, or/and the root of hatred between groups of people. While religion has shaped our world, and is part of it on a deeply integrated level, it doesn’t mean that’s always been a good thing.
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On a scale of one to ten, how accurate is this picture to what’s going on with radical Islam right now?
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Saudi blogger sentenced to weekly floggings for "insulting Islam"

Just in case you thought US-ally Saudi Arabia was any less brutal than its radical neighbors.
from BBC:
A Saudi Arabian blogger has been publicly flogged after being convicted of cybercrime and insulting Islam, reports say.
Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times. The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.
Mr Badawi, the co-founder of a now banned website called the Liberal Saudi Network, was arrested in 2012.
Rights groups condemned his conviction and the US appealed for clemency.
On Thursday state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki urged the Saudi authorities to “cancel this brutal punishment” and to review his case.
In addition to his sentence, Mr Badawi was ordered to pay a fine of 1 million riyals ($266,000; £175,000).
In 2013 he was cleared of apostasy, which could have carried a death sentence.
Last year Mr Badawi’s lawyer was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of a range of offences in an anti-terrorism court, the Associated Press news agency reported.
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The Saudis are every bit as brutal and vicious as the radical jihadists in Afghanistan, Iran, and elsewhere in the Middle East.
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