@McTag,
McTag wrote:Why are these IS dudes so hell-bent on slaughtering other muslims and Christian Iraqis?
Hundreds of thousands of fugitives on a bare mountain.
It is beyond crazy.
al-Qa'ida's goal has always been to conquer the entire world and commit genocide against all non-Muslims. As you noted, being the "wrong" kind of Muslim is just as bad in their eyes as being a non-Muslim.
Their original reason for 9/11 was because they perceived (correctly) that the US would form an alliance with the rest of the world to stop them from killing us all.
They believed (incorrectly) that 9/11 would intimidate us into inaction.
It is nice to see you finally start to recognize who the bad guys are.
I'm reminded of an old X Files episode where there are two preachers, one conservative and one moderate. The conservative was portrayed as a likely extremist and probably the bad guy of the episode. And he kept telling Mulder something like "It sounds like you haven't figured out which side you're on," in a manner that actually sounded like he was delivering a threat.
By the end of the episode though, it was revealed that the conservative preacher was one of the good guys, and the moderate was the bad guy. What his phrase really meant was "It sounds like you haven't yet figured out who the good guys are and who the bad guys are."
Anyway, getting back to you, it sounds like you might be finally figuring out who the bad guys are and who the good guys are.
I don't suppose I can convince you that it is wrong to intentionally send innocent people to prison?