Charlot123
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You seem quite knowledgeable, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but isn't equating Isis as a "Muslim" similar to equating right wing Christian extremists as Christian? I'm guessing Isis members don't follow most Muslim norms. Just a thought.
But all of your comments are relevant and informative.
I also question whether the right 'terrorists' were arrested. Let's face it, Putin's government will try to show quick action, whether the right perps are caught or not.
Technically speaking, ISIS is Sunni Muslims. How they interpret Islam is another matter.
(Likewise, saying “a Christian” tells me nothing about a person’s political, economical, and other position. It just says that a person believes in: Christ being God’s son, being crucified and by his death, absolving the humankind of the original sin and that Christ got resurrected on Easter. The initial dogma is the same, but Christianity has branched out times and again, I suspect, all schisms representing the fight over power, land, influence or wealth. TBH, I am most afraid of ascetic honest believers as potential chaos evoked by the purists is worse. In short, I’d choose Pope Alexander Borgia over Savonarola).
Likewise, ISIS is absolutely Muslim, only extremely fundamentalist. Being purist and spiritual, they are “the Savonarolas” of the Muslim world who managed to end up at war with everyone else, it seems, including the Talibans and Hamas. However, no one can say they are meek, weak or cowardly. So…I understand, all humans have certain pain threshold, so I am not commenting on the reaction of the accused to pain, but I was very much surprised that they’d even allow to be captured alive.
At the same time, if ISIS-Khorossan stated they were behind the terrorist act, they are to be believed. Here is an article about ISIS-K.
Who are ISIS-K, the group linked to the Moscow concert hall terror attack? | CNN
US officials have tied the deadly assault on a concert venue to ISIS-K, an affiliate that operates in central Asia, which has become one of the region’s most feared terror groups.
amp.cnn.com
Blowing up themselves together with the infidels, the more the better, would be typical for them.
Now, would they involve some migrants from Central Asia without explanation? This is a question to people knowing more about Islam. Would an extreme fundamentalist Christian send another Christian to death without making a person confide and get absolution for his sins? Unlikely. It is the core of Christianity. Are Muslim martyrs expected to go through some ritual of sorts before such an act? It is reasonable to assume, yes, but I am no specialist.