Macaroni

Submitted by Pigfoot (United States), Jan 6, 2006 at 13:21

If the murdering Islamic terrorists were to call themselves "Macaronists", well then good. I and most others would readliy accept this as what it is, a group naming themselves.

Actually, many of these groups refer to themselves as "Jihadists" (see Daniel Pipes listing of these groups). I and most others accept this. Fringe Islamic groups, (they who may or may not be smoking something), for example the Sufists, explain the term as something to do with the "inner self". Hey, that works for me--pass the........

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