We can tell a tree by its fruits.
We have got from ISIS hatred, murder, theft etc. and the latest is sexual lust. Every evil thing they do they have to clothe it in religious legitimacy. They are children of the Devil who had dressed him up as God in order to be holy, their perversion of holiness that is.
Very unfortunate for our Muslim friends that ISIS misappropriated and abused Islam. They should be in the forefront confronting this threat. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Iran the larger neighbors should march on ISIS and save the innocent Muslims ISIS is killing. Yes, ISIS has been killing more Muslims than any other people
Sadly these Muslim states have lost their moral authority and also do not possess the means to decisively deal with ISIS. In the first place their religious fecklessness created a vacuum filled now by ISIS perversion of Islam. Saudi Arabia the birthplace of Wahhabism was most culpable. Leaders of these Middle Eastern Muslim states ought to all hang their heads in shame especially Iraq erstwhile PM Maliki. Your peoples and us deserve better.
The Americans, Europeans, Russian and Chinese should jointly act against ISIS even as every nation hunt down their sleeper cells within its borders.
Unlike Al Qaeda, ISIS is unrestrained. We can expect more perversions from them to the point it becomes so evil even many evil people cannot bear with it and will refuse to join them. My fear is that this end point is too far away to be meaningful but yes left to their own devices, they have been immorally built into them to self destruct were civilized people fail to act. Nazism and Hitler would have faced its own destructive end too on their own. Fortunately our forebears didn't wait for this to happen and instead took up arms and defeat them.
Closer home Kong Hee is facing judgement in our courts where his perversion of Christianity is daily on public display. For those who still keep faith with him, you can test what he is made of by the fruits he bore. This is not a good tree as it had been bearing counterfeit fruits. Bite into his fruits and see for yourself if it is sweet or bitter. But we can't help you if you are in self denial and insist on calling bitterness sweet. Those who claimed Kong Hee's ministry had been a blessing to them are non specific and unsubstantive about those blessings. To me they are living a lie because they fear the truth and passing off the fake for the real they could hide from the truth. In any society there are people who just want you to tell them lies, sweet loving lies. The first lie we tell ourselves is many of us thought more highly of ourselves than we ought to. Fortunately many do not venture farther than that but that is the germinating point for trouble.
ISIS version of Islam and Kong Hee's brand of Christianity if you care to do the work and understand were simply different branches to the main trunk of evil. Well one takes your life the other your money. True religion is about giving and false religion is about taking.
Update: 2:25pm
Those who perverts religion always start innocently. Often it takes a long time for the founder and purveyors to show their true colors. This happened when the leader is satisfied that he has emotionally captured a large enough following. Like in the CHC case, outsiders can see the misdeeds and distorted doctrine easily even without the benefit of knowing the right doctrine but the lost flock could not. In ISIS case this is really tragic as like the duped have become practically zombies. Often you are forced to destroy than rehabilitate them.
I wrote earlier that true religion is about giving and its impostor is about taking. However they all lure you in by giving but adherents might prefer to call it blessings. Once you are in their net, the giving turn to taking. In this sense it is pretty much like most scams promising big reward but you must first make a small investment. The end story is you are not getting a big reward but suffering a huge loss. It is heart breaking to see the brain washed ask the organization what more can we give. Some misled Muslim women are making their way across the world to ISIS to offer their bodies as sex toys to the jihadists. This is so devastating that I am sure some will kill themselves over this if and when they discover the truth.
It is just convenient for me that Singapore Daily today listed a Facebook post: City Harvest - Why I am no longer here, which is pertinent to the observation I have made about false religion repeatedly. Not an example I like but sufficiently explanatory.
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