Thread by @sankrant

Baghdadi is a “well-read” Muslim, with a PhD in Islamic studies. The Taliban spend a lifetime studying the Quran. If that doesn’t make them “true Muslims” then Allah’s word is not very effective, is it?

https://twitter.com/emm_asif_shafi/status/1151164703218946050

Two arguments are being given against this. First some random criminal doesn’t represent the religion. But #Baghdadi was no random criminal. His aim was to establish the Islamic Caliphate and #ISIS meticulously followed Islam law. See:

https://twitter.com/abdulmurtad/status/1160009260907954178?s=21

Secondly, that #Baghdadi was helped by the CIA. Well the CIA do associate with all kind of unsavory characters. But when #ISIS was attacking Yezidi it wasn’t force converting them to Christianity or American capitalism. Guess what religion?

https://twitter.com/ezidi2/status/1031187617872838657?s=21

#ISIS represents a strain of Islam which has been there since inception and which has resulted in forced conversion and slaughter of millions. There may be peaceful strains as well.

But to deny that #ISI emerges from Islam is to deny reality.

https://twitter.com/aranganathan72/status/1123220648048783360?s=21

Thanks for making clear the belief system from which terrorism and war against disbelievers emerges. Very helpful. This “god”
Itself wants to terrorize.

https://twitter.com/shoaibindia/status/1188767538324262912?s=21

Can you tell me one verse from your Holy Book which prohibits rape of kaffir women or slavery?

In fact, it explicitly allows rape of "women under the right hand." But that is not evil according to Allah?

https://twitter.com/shoaibindia/status/1188771519968600065?s=19

Women were part of the army in the Middle East? At least lie convincingly. Islam treated women as “war booty” maal-I-ganimat, treated them as sex slaves and traded them. This evil is authorized by Allah, he is in no position to be a moral judge.

https://twitter.com/shoaibindia/status/1188844836054429697?s=21