Comments by "Daisy Chain" (@daisychain3007) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. They send their children to religious schools where only Yiddish is spoken.
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  2.  @The_dauphin  Many people are born into poverty but do not turn to extremism.
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  3. I was a teenager once myself, dukadar. I never thought of joining a terrorist organisation.
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  4.  @miriambucholtz9315  This is sad. A convert should be welcomed with open arms. Think of all the rejections by his or her family that he or she went through. Thinking of all the new rituals he or she had to learn. Many converts are more observant in their new faith than those who are born into it.
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  5. He needs a haircut.
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  6. Do you think that there are no homosexuals or lesbianism in religious families, Maihan? This is an issue now only because it has been brought out of the closet. Homosexuality and lesbianism have existed since the beginning of time, but they were always swept under the carpet. Sweeping things under the carpet does not make them go away. You cannot run away from yourself, so it is now out in the open. Many religious families, Muslim or otherwise, have some "skeletons in the cupboard" that have to get confronted someday.
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  7.  @Rydro  It is NOT a choice. Just like you are attracted to the opposite gender, they are attracted to their own. It brings them a lot of sorrow. Believe me, if they could become straight, they would.
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  8.  @caleb2507  What about women needing permission from men to leave the house in order to go shopping? Are you in agreement with this?
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  9.  @apartahotelsmadrid375  He should get a haircut instead. I am sure that that long hair for men is un-Islamic.
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  10. It is one step in a long journey.
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  11. There would not be any bullying anywhere, either, Argentodoxos, or people having to flee their homelands in order to find peace elsewhere.
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  12. It is human nature to distrust someone when he or she has returned from an Islamic Caliphate in Syria, even when he or she publicly states that he or she has never been personally involved in actual terrorism there and has never actually beheaded anybody. He is very lucky to have been released by them and not shot as a deserter. He is even luckier to have been allowed back into Germany. Most of those who left for Islamic State in Syria have not been allowed back home.
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  13.  @jamessilver6429  They thought that he was being rebellious when he only wanted to learn about life. It takes courage to break away like he did. Good luck to him.
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  14.  @michellelansky4490  People do not break away from their upbringing unless they become disillusioned with it and if parents make their children's lives that difficult, no wonder the children break away.
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  15. Hamas build offices below hospitals and other civilian places, fire at Israel from them, then blame Israel for firing back. In other words, Hamas is using its own population as human shields. Hamas started the war by shooting dead innocent Israeli civilians attending a music festival on the 7th October.
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  16. Questioning is part of learning things. How can you learn things if you are not allowed to question them?
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  17.  @valken666  Once you get involved with them, it is not easy to extricate yourself from them. It is lucky that he did.
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  18.  @johngrey3248  Why?
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  19.  @rbra9611  He does not. He looks just like Ed Sheeran.
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  20. If he did, Ali, that would be the end of his musical career.
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  21.  @AliAbrahem  That is like saying that many Germans did not join the Nazi party in 1939 to actually kill whomever they wanted to, just to drive them to the place where they would be killed by others.
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  22.  @anonymousanonymous-qx7mv  How do you know?
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  23.  @Adam-uz9sc  But it is pretty scary for those unused to seeing such big weaponry on the streets.
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  24.  @MP-oj6zo  Would you like to be threatened by someone carrying one of those?
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  25. I have difficulty understanding some of the speech but the subtitles are even worse. They are completely wrong and do not correspond to any words.
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  26. He could sue you for that, Stamp.
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  27. It must have been difficult trying to hold your own in a household so different from you, AJ. I hope that no-one tried to convert you.
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  28. Shrekislove, what do you think doctors and nurses working in Medecins sans Frontieres do? They also leave their safe, comfortable homes and go to refugee camps in warzones to help the sick and the injured. Except that he was not going to a refugee camp in order to help the sick and injured. He was going to join a terrorist organisation which murders people. Leaving your safe, comfortable home in order to help other people is an act of selflessness and good-heartedness. Leaving your safe, comfortable home in order to join a terrorist organisation is an act of evil and betrayal.
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  29.  @serigotskrila6712  And as toilet cleaners in Europe, they have a safer, cleaner life than they would in those Syrian tents. In Europe, they are free and have access to clean, running water. In Syria, they are under the thumb of ISIS and live in squalid conditions in their tents.
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  30.  @serigotskrila6712  ISIS promises them heaven in Syria, e.g., a luxury house with all mod cons. Once they reach Syria, those naive converts are in for a rude shock. Their home consists of a tent, which they have to share with thirty others, no clean or running water, a scarcity of food and money and unhygienic living conditions.
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  31. He is lucky to have been allowed back. In most cases, he would have been left to rot in the Islamic Caliphate.
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  32.  @lillycasey2657  If he thought killing people in the name of Islam is wrong, why did he join the caliphate? Did he think that the caliphate was a social club with fun and games?
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  33.  @igkhdigkhd8760  The trouble is that gay people are sometimes born into religious families and gayness is the enemy of religion.
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  34. That is the trouble, Inc orp, a frenzied minority can ruin everything for a calm majority. It is a bit like Germany after World War Two. Germany was an ordinary, normal country until the crazy Nazis took power and turned it into a place of massacre, then all Germans became associated with Nazism. It only takes a handful of lunatics to turn a peaceful religion into one of murder and hatred. It was in Laden who actually turned the world against Islam by destroying the World Trade Centre.
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  35.  @f4wnz132  No, sadly it chooses to focus on ISIS because ISIS use fanaticism to further their agenda in the name of Islam. What I said was that a handful of fanatics can distort an entire religion or culture. Until bin Laden destroyed the Twin Towers in New York, no-one had even heard of him or even thought badly of Islam. The fact that bin Laden was a fanatic who used a twisted version of Islam to justify his destruction of the Twin Towers poisoned a lot of people against Islam and gave them the idea that Islam was a wicked, murderous religion. It is like one rotten apple can infect an entire basketful. That is what I meant.
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  37. It is fanaticism, which distorts the religion, that is dangerous, not the religion itself. Having a particular belief is fine, as long as you do not harm anyone else who does not share it. Hating someone for having a different belief and killing them for it is not fine.
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  38.  @thatsthat2612  But you do not force it down their throats.
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  39.  @stormshorts2270  Even now there are people who have no food.
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  40.  @khorasan2152  It is not done for health reasons, it is done for spiritual reasons. A fast is not a competition. It is not about "who can hold out the longest" without eating or drinking. It is about immersing yourself in your religion and paying attention to what God requests of you. If you consider it beneficial just for health reasons, you are missing the point of Ramadan. Anyone can fast for health reasons, but if you fast for Ramadan, are you listening to what God is actually trying to say to you?
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  41. He is a good-looking young man.
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  42. Ed Sheeran could sue anyone for tormenting him for facially resembling this guy. Who read of the man wrrongly accused of being Jon Venables and threatened with ringing beaten up? The poor man is beside himself with despair and does not know what to do.
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  43.  @Lizzie-uf3dt  He NEARLY murdered lots of people, but he did not ACTUALLY. Do you realise what a close shave he had? What would you have said if he had ACTUALLY killed lots of people?
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  44.  @Halfpirate  He may have been shedding crocodile tears.
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  45. How can it be any good if it kills innocent people, Zeta?
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  46.  @farhaanahmed8924  He should get his hair cut instead.
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  47.  @Robocop-qe7le  The parents raised their four children as devout Christians. At that young man's age, many make their own decisions without telling their parents.
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