Quote:I just find it hard to believe that radical Muslims have staged a civil war in a predominantly Islamic country, killing almost a quarter of a million civilians (again, most of them Muslim) in order to "spread a cancer" to the rest of the world. That's almost as ridiculous an assertion as claiming that the US staged 9/11 to gain greater control of its own populace through fear and hate, maybe even a little more so.

• Sura 2:218  “Surely those who believed and those who emigrated and performed jihad.”
  
  
  
• Sura 8:72    “Surely those who believed and those who emigrated and performed jihad with their money and their lives for the sake Allah, and those who gave asylum…”
  
  
  
• Sura 8:74    “And those who believed and emigrated and performed jihad for the sake of Allah, and those who gave asylum and help [gave you victory], those are the true believers, they will receive forgiveness and generous provisions.
  
  
  
• Sura 8:75   ““And those who believed afterward and emigrated and performed jihad with you, so those are of you.