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Originally Posted by outlaw
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No. Not really. I have met a lot of Muslims from different countries. My closest friend Mahmood Jergis Mohammad in library school at the University of Denver did become radicalized by the Iran-Iraq War. And his brother was far up in Saddam Hussein's army. I knew him at the University of Denver along with a small group of Muslims/Arabs. He was a librarian at the University of Mosul. The last I checked he was still there.
Could he have done something like this killer in Orlando? Maybe, given his extremism created by his circumstances.
This was in 1983-1984 that I knew him and his letters to me in Scottsdale and Belmont then in Minneapolis got more and more radicalized. We broke off all communication around 1986.
There are many non-radicalized very good and non-violent Muslims in the United States.
You need these people to STOP the terrorism from happening here as they are the ones who know what is going on in their communities. It is STUPID to alienate people you want to help you out with preventing future actions like the one in Orlando last night.
ISIS has had control of the University of Mosul for more than a year from what I gather. So, I suppose my former friend Mahmood is either dead or joined them. They murder people who do not share their extremely radical beliefs.
I do not see ISIS as a religious organization but as a group of zealot fascists bending a religion to serve their own evil agenda much like the Nazis or Mussolini's Italian followers bent Christianity to serve their own goals.
Religion in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia