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Reader comment on item: ISIS Is Not Islamic?
Submitted by ECAW (France), Sep 11, 2014 at 04:07
Dr Pipes has pointed out what should be thunderingly obvious to everyone, yet I read an article in the Guardian yesterday in which a professor of sociology traced the roots of ISIS's ideology not to Islam but to the French Revolution.
Here are its roots as far as I can see:
http://ecawblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/isis-whats-not-to-like/
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