In fact, the original sources of all these sorts of religious myths are probably pre writing and are derived from older oral history.

Personally I think it's all about aliens.

May the force be with you.

There aren't many mainstream Islamic faiths that are heavily into killing to protect dogma either though. There are a few maybe and most of them have a direct link to Saudi and Iran.

Most of the Radicalised Islamist groups grew out of the national liberation movements and as opposition to oppressive regimes. Faced with violence from state oppression they've responded in kind, which tends to be the norm (resistance to oppressive regimes tends towards armed violence).

There is a difference often between the Religious aspects of say Hamas and its political violence (in fact they're two almost completely different bodies and organisations). The problem generally has been that political movements in many Islamic countries tend to require an military presence to ensure their survival, which in the long run doesn't bode well for the type of people who come to power through such means.

Ironically, Islamic Jyhad was once a pacifist movement. The result was that Egyptian Authorities conducted mass arrests, torture and executed most of its leadership, unsurprisingly those who remained turned to less 'pleasant' means of protest.

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Auto-correct is responsible for a lot of unforced written errors these days. That's why it's best never doing the old grammer Police 'What have we got here, then?'

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Fair enough but if one were able to see the motives behind religious persecution and violence of the past it was likely that they were often for reasons other than pure belief as well. In the end it makes no difference to the person being slain if the perpetrator is doing it for reasons of faith or otherwise, the result is the same.

You wouldn't say that the Spanish Inquisition was not perpetrated by devout Catholics would you, even if many prosecutions were for more political reasons. No one would expect that.

To be fair those Spaniards were very nice chaps compared to ISIL.

Try telling Charlie Hebdo or Salman Rusdie that those Jihadists aren't religious loons but just a bit upset and see what they think about that.

You do realise Charlie Hebdo is the name of a magazine and not an actual person don't you?

"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
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Thanks for the offer Jimmy but my xmas shopping is all done

"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
FA Cup MOTD 24/4/16