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Originally Posted by Mutt
that's a good short read, people including myself often have a Disney version of world history.
there is no apology though for the Inquisition, pure religious evil at work there.
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Modern political and social societies do not (*at least should not) behave like was done 1000 or 500 years ago. I guess the last throw-back was the Nazi Third Reich. The Islamic State (IS, ISIL, ISIS) are just the latest barbarians. The Islamic State will be destroyed like other barbarians and history will go on -- another barbarian regime will arise. The barbarism of the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition is well known -- so what? It is not justification of the Islamic State's barbarism.
I can exterminate people because Hitler, Genghis Khan or Timour (Tamerlane) did? That is a ridiculous argument.
This is basically the same reason that the USA just does not nuke Iran -- it would be barbaric to exterminate a nation of 77.45 million people. Would ISIS if given a chance nuke the USA?