Hypothetical: What if ISIS makes a successful Caliphate?

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you ignored all the alternative explanations i offered for some of the phenomena you just described. i have no doubt "islam" matters occasionally, but why does it matter and under what circumstances, that's the question. i'm not going to do a scriptural battle with you, citing which texts of the quran are good or bad (if i was one of those similarly essentializing "oh it's a religion of peace" types), or even compare major historical events because it's clear we have very different explanatory paradigms and until we resolve that difference we won't get much further. sure i could offer more regional, historical, etc. explanations, but i'm lazy and already proved my larger analytic point. but carry on, i've already laid waste here, not unlike the metaphorical crusaders you were describing.

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[The Comrade]

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[Saz]

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[Lobster]

Dharma's idea that islamist militias and religious fanatics are fighting for some sort of collectivist, anarchist worker's rights is so deluded it doesn't even merit a response. It's his go-to response though, same shtick whether the subject is Lybia or Syria or Iraq or etc...
Seeing everything through his broken f**k prism of ironically ethnocentric american leftist dogma. He may have some interesting insights on american culture and internal politics sometimes, but is woefully ill equipped to comment on anything happening in the rest of the world. It really boggles my mind how these morons will side and sympathize with an ideology infinitely more "conservative" and fundamentally broken than anything present in their safe and prosperous first world countries, literally the only places on the entire planet where their naive, childlike worldview has any popular or academic traction at all.
If your ideology had even a middling following in the mid-east (hint: it doesn't), idiots advocating it would, at the very least, be publically ostracized. And that's in the more stable muslim majority countries. They would just be outright executed under an ISIS type regime. That's why the few arab intellectuals adhering to it come to the West to pontificate. Because their lives and the lives of their families are literally at risk for voicing political opinions deviating from the norm in their native countries. There is NO f**k COMPARISON, no matter how hard you try to make the equivalency, you ignorant buffoon.