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How Islamic is Islamic State group? Not very, experts say
[RUDAW.NET] Three British schoolgirls believed to have gone to Syria to become "jihadi" brides. Three young men charged in New York with plotting to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and carry out attacks on American soil. A masked, knife-wielding turban from London who is the face of terror in videos showing Western hostages beheaded.

They are among tens of thousands of Moslems eager to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State group. An estimated 20,000 have streamed into the territory in Iraq and Syria where the group has proclaimed what it calls a "caliphate" ruled by its often brutal version of Islamic law.
Posted by: Fred 2015-03-03
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