Queen Rania: Let's Drop The First 'I' In ISIS. There's Nothing Islamic About Them
Queen Rania of Jordan recently said “I would love to drop the first ‘I’ in ISIS because there’s nothing Islamic about them,". Ironically Marie Harf said almost the same thing recently: “We’re killing a lot of them, and we’re going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians — they’re in this fight with us,” Harf said. “But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s a lack of opportunity for jobs.” This makes the queen an anomaly among Arabs, both westernized and liberal. What makes a true Muslim? The one who emulates the founder of Islam or the one who doesn't? The Muslims that preceded Muhammad certainly believed it was the former. They conquered the middle-east in the name of Islam in short order after his death. Nothing ISIS is doing is any different from what Muhammad and his ...
