Khorasan: Yet another group of Muslims who are getting Islam all wrong.

[icehorse]

Don't these guys know that Islam is a religion of peace?

 

[Gjallarhorn]

What the student learns is more telling than what is taught.

 

[Valjean]

This fearsome Khorasan suddenly appears just as the US is searching for a justification to begin a new military campaign.

The US has not appealed to the UN, as is required by international and US law. In characterizing a previously unknown terrorist group as an imminent threat it seeks to invoke the imminent threat standard in international law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defence_in_international_law
The imminent threat is a standard criterion in international law, developed by Daniel Webster as he litigated the Caroline affair, described as being "instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." The criteria are used in the international law justification of preemptive self-defense: self-defense without being physically attacked first (see Caroline test). This concept was introduced to compensate the strict, classical and inefficient[how?] definition of self-defense used by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, which states that sovereign nations may fend off an armed attack until the Security Council has adopted measures under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter.
The Caroline affair has been used to establish the principle of "anticipatory self-defense" and is also now invoked frequently in the course of the dispute around preemptive strike (or preemption doctrine).

After the Gulf of Tonkin incident, babies being tossed from incubators and Saddam's weapons of mass destruction I think a little skepticism is justified.

 

[Quagmire]

Don't these guys know that Islam is a religion of peace?

I thought sarcasm was the religion of peace (?)

 

[Valjean]

Just as I suspected:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/...-invented-terror-group-justify-bombing-syria/

 

[Ultimatum]

Don't these guys know that Islam is a religion of peace?

It's almost as if God is telling them different things

 

[metis]

Don't these guys know that Islam is a religion of peace?

Like in pretty much all religions, it boils down to which verses and teachings in the scriptures get more emphasized.

 

[icehorse]

Like in pretty much all religions, it boils down to which verses and teachings in the scriptures get more emphasized.

Could it also be which messages and teachings get repeated over and over and over and over again in the scriptures?

 

[metis]

Could it also be which messages and teachings get repeated over and over and over and over again in the scriptures?

Oh, I'm sure. We well know, for example, that some imams are much more "radical", in lack of a better word, than some others. And, of course, this can be found in all religious traditions.