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Since Radical Islam does not represent Islam, and not all Muslims are terrorists but all Jihadi's are Muslim.

Is everyone that converts or joins ISIS mentally ill or just mentally retarded?

Isis are mentally ill. They get guns and think "muh caliphate"

Everybody hates them, even Iran.

Iran's techniques are just as vial as ISIS, they have been taking over Iraq by proxy. Iran-Backed Shiite Militia is just as bad as ISIS.

Chicken and egg situation. I'm sure a lot of ISIS members joined in order to act out on psychopathic compulsions they would have regardless of religious fundamentalism. Just as many likely are so deeply ingrained in the extreme religious fervour that it's indistinguishable from mental illness that compel people to kill.

It's the equivalent of pro-life Christians murdering abortion clinic doctors in the name of Jesus to save the fetuses.

They're all just insane.

The numbers on those deaths are vastly outnumbered by the death's caused by radical muslims.

Here are some numbers.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/11/daily-chart-12

The number of casualties does not make the actions of the pro life activists any less vile, only less in scale.

Those who choose to murder in the name of their religious faith are basically condemning themselves anyway. No malevolent diety, wether it be Islam's Allah or the Christian's God, would condone the intentional murder of the innocent.

To me, the radicals seem to be of the absolute belief that if you do not follow their religion to the absolute nth degree, then you are nothing but a heathen and heretic to be destroyed. There is no middle ground, there is no differing opinion, you either conform or you die, violently. In that belief, they take away the gods right to judge a human's life when their natural death comes... it's really weird.

Originally posted by Darkstorm Zero
Those who choose to murder in the name of their religious faith are basically condemning themselves anyway. No malevolent diety, wether it be Islam's Allah or the Christian's God, would condone the intentional murder of the innocent.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what a malevolent deity would condone.

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what a malevolent deity would condone.

Lol, I just realised I mixed the mord Malevolent with Benevolent :P

Thanks for the heads up

Originally posted by Darkstorm Zero
Lol, I just realised I mixed the mord Malevolent with Benevolent :P

Thanks for the heads up
Eh, it's alright. These are, after all, malevolent deities we are talking about.

Originally posted by jaden101
Chicken and egg situation. I'm sure a lot of ISIS members joined in order to act out on psychopathic compulsions they would have regardless of religious fundamentalism. Just as many likely are so deeply ingrained in the extreme religious fervour that it's indistinguishable from mental illness that compel people to kill.

So either they are mentally ill or like a Syrian refugee told me, Islam turns good people bad. Because this is what is happening.

Clearly the thousands of people cannot suddenly come down with mental illness?

They're probably more brainwashed, than mentally ill, for the most part.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
So either they are mentally ill or like a Syrian refugee told me, Islam turns good people bad. Because this is what is happening.

Clearly the thousands of people cannot suddenly come down with mental illness?

It's no much as turning good people bad as allowing people who were always bad to act on their impulses without fear of the force of law.

I think more people than we'd like to think would be like that if you were to remove the institutions that enforce social order.

This just gives those people with those tendencies the means to act on them.

Evil isn't the same thing as insane.

Insanity is harder to predict and unfortunately they have a surplus amount of the stuff.