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No Taddy...Apple and Predictive text...noticed it only after it was too late to change it...and I reckoned that you might be like me...they can call me anything as long as they don't miss calling me for my tea:D

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I don't like the term "Isis Beatles" idiots!!!

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This is not a name that we have given them, it is what the media and the other members of Isis called them.

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Wow so much passion and quite rightly so. To be fair to all faiths most followers of any religion are decent ordinary folk. Sadly any religion has had its zealots who commit all manner of horrendous acts in the name of their faith and in that respect Taddy in my opinion is absolutely correct in that more people have died as a result of religion than through any other cause. In relation to the Beatles as much as we all have our thoughts on what we would like to do the simple fact is we areacivilused society. If they were executed they would become martyrs. It is a fact that when times are hard extremist groups attract the zealots, the disfunctional and the disenfranchised andfor a brief moment they have power and then it’s gone. These two have to stand trial for war crimes in The Hague and spend the rest of their days behind bars. In that we lay we maintain our integrity, justice is served and they don’t become martyrs.

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It is not the fault of religion.
It is mans interpretation of the tenets of religion that cause the problem.
They are used to justify all kinds of atrocities...as a means of men having power over other men(often people who have a different branch of the same faith). It is all about POWER, not about God or a faith. And before anyone accuses me of being a god botherer, I can tell you that I am of no faith.
I do not know of any religion that sanctions killing.
Our own Christian commandments state 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'
The Quran tells Muslims that if they kill,one man it is as if they have killed the whole of humanity.
Religion is the bedrock of society. Without it,there would have been no education system, no legal system and no civilisation.

These reprehensible men can have their day in court, but I hope it is in a court removed from our shores...I hope they get the kind of justice they meted out(as judge and jury to those they allegedly beheaded) to the aid worker, the journalist and the civil engineer.
And to stop them becoming martyrs(if by some chance they are executed...which is as likely as me being made pope) then they should be buried in a grave that is soiled with pig muck.

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Margaret you are absolutely correct, its not the faith its people who corrupt its interpretation.

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And they do this knowing that they corrupt the faith they profess to hold.
It is much like the catholic priests and nuns who abused children...their faith cannot be blamed...it is not the faith that is responsible, but the man/woman who use the faith to perpetrate vile acts.