Understanding Islam — Page 43
43 Todenhofer. He spent 10 days living with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. He said in his BBC interview: I wanted to ask them [ISIS, editor], are you really Islamic? Because in Islam [Quran, editor] 113 of the 114 Surahs start with ‘In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful’. Where is your mercy? There is no mercy. . . They gave an answer: [we] caught 3500 Shias and we killed only 50 percent of them, so we had mercy. They did not have an answer. They are, as far as Quran is concerned, illiterate. They don’t know really the spirit of Quran. I will say that it is an anti-Islamic movement. They have an Islamic mask because Quran does not allow to kill innocents; Quran does not allow to destroy churches, synagogues and so on. And Quran does not allow to force somebody to believe something. 41 In short, the argument that being a devout Muslim can possibly turn you into a violent Jihadist is based on pitiable ignorance, or unprincipled malice and mischief. Reports and first hand accounts of Daesh soldiers reveal that they joined this group for monetary and political reasons. They were not devout Muslims who just suddenly saw a