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Islamic State has brought us back to the Middle Ages
Oz Almog
Published: 25.09.14, 01:49
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1. The question is "is globilisation desirable"
Shachar ,   Eilat   (09.25.14)
And the answer is a resounding NO. The west has spread it's globalisation crusade throughout the world by sword, by preaching and by bribery. It has done massive damage to traditional cultures throughout the world, devastating Africa, the ME parts of Asia and \south America. Instead of leaving ancient cultures to live the way they have for thousands of years we have thrust upon them turmoil and destruction. There is no way back and results of our handywork are going to bite us in the backside from time to time. IS is a vain and misguided attempt to return the old order which will self-destruct. A stable new order is not even on the horizon though.
2. Ynet copes by calling terrorists militants
silent majority   (09.25.14)
and hopes that they will be flattered and behave nicely.
3. Are you an irrelevant academic?
Beno   (09.25.14)
Living in a fantasy world? Then the "Y" will be happy to publish your musings!
4. the free world is resposible..........
Calibi ,   Sydney Aust   (09.25.14)
Please transfer my talk back "the free world is responsible" to this page (from the page where the french man was slain) if its accepted............ Thanks God bless the Jews & Israel
5. That's bull.
Brad ,   USA   (09.25.14)
Let me get this straight. Islam commits murder, rape, and mayhem. Islam openly demands Israel's destruction. Islam demands that all non-Muslims convert to Islam or die. Then we hear that the problem is "religious fundamentalism". Think again. The problem is Islam. Not radical Islam. Not Islamic fundamentalism, or any other kind of fundamentalism. THE PROBLEM IS THE EXISTENCE OF ISLAM. ISLAM IS THE ENEMY. Islam should be destroyed. I know, you can't kill an idea, but you can kill the people who hold that idea. From their own words, there are no innocents or civilians, and that's a two way street.
6. More accurate: Dark Ages; and Ultra-Orthodox no exception
Orthodox Not-Haredi ,   Israel   (09.25.14)
It's religious Dark Ages superstitions and rituals masquerading as Torah
7. This is journalism? NOT!
Shep Fargotstein ,   Memphis,TN   (09.25.14)
Sorry, but this was just a space filler. It could have been written by a 10th grader. Were all the first and second string writers at the synagogue ?
8. 1915 IS Not 'Middle Ages'
Yoelarry ,   new york   (09.25.14)
Get your history right. Beginning in 1915 the Muslim Ottoman Empire, modern day Turkey, embarked in systematic genocide resulting in the deaths of One and one-half million Armenian Christians. To this day the Islamic state of Turkey has refused to acknowledge this well known history. The massacre and enslavement of non-muslims has continued from the dawn of Islam in the seventh century and continues unabated today. By pretending that this 'religion of peace' has been 'hijacked' by ISIS is a Bold Faced Distortion of historical fact. Islam was and continues to be a viscous plague on all non-Islamic 'infidels'. To deny historical truth is to Enable the murderous Evil we witness in Iraq and Syria today.
9. Islam in its current form started 1400 years ago, not yester
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (09.25.14)
Author is an idiot with no knowledge of the history of Islam.
10. The Islamic crazies will get rabies and turn
barbara ,   Haifa   (09.25.14)
on each other - killing their comrades and themselves - and why not? There are so many factions - why not take it to the level of the gangs in New York. Only one want to rule the "Middle Age" era - so they'll fight it out between themselves. We just have to help them along this line.
11. An alternative perspective
Bertram ,   London, UK   (09.25.14)
While I fully agree with the writer on religious fudamentalism (of all kinds) I believe it is mistaken to view IS and similar bodies as a reversion to the 'Middle Ages'. On the contray, IS is a very modern movement, prepared to employ modern technologies and modern political tactics. In the same way, while Nazi Germany referred back to Teutonic mythoology and built on historic antisemitism, it was also highly modernist in its industrialised approach to genocide. IS employs sophisticated modes of organisation and message dissemination. The beheadings, while utterly vile, are but one small cog in an adaptable machine.
12. Let us inventory the errors of the past
miniIntel   (09.26.14)
1. Feudal tyrants were mighty oppressors. 2. Imperial powers made huge mistakes, Emperor of Germany, Austria, Russia, England were the leading sinners. 3. Wahhabi sectarianism was developing into the Saudi Kingdom, with Western blessing. 4. A modern tyranny serving it oligarch rose in Tehran. 5. Haredi and nationalist extremism became a side show in Israel and USA. (Chabad, Hassidim, Cookism...) Let us take inventory, and create a worldwide cleansing movement, to build civil societies from Zimbabwe to Iran.
13. as long as
(09.26.14)
the free speech is the most valuable right of people --evry thing will be mixed in electric mixer becouse free speech has zero price but kill people you need money for the weopons for the cars and for the eating travelling -the question is who pay s??? and who gets more money ??
14. Back to the Middle Ages
Daniel ,   Israel   (09.27.14)
They are primitive barbaric people. They understand only one word in any language "Kill". So; that's the word we should understand while tackling them.
15. Islam IS the stone age..
Beary White ,   Norway   (09.27.14)
Their support for terrorism and death is similar to how muhammed at the 670's actually terrorized and killed those who would not obey to allah, the moon-god of evil.
16. to 15
asal black   (09.28.14)
if islam is the stone age --you R no way
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