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2267 was next when I first checked, TRayB posted a few minutes before me before I hit post comment.

As far as I know, all the flavors of Muslims are like that.

Actually yes. They follow different Imams just like Christians follow pastors or priests or Jews follow different rabbis. No matter the religion there are zealots that try to control the minds and will of their followers.

A little info about one of the three main sects I started to talk about on the vherf.

The basic doctrine of the Khārijites was that a person or a group who committed a grave error or sin and did not sincerely repent ceased to be Muslim. Mere profession of the faith—“there is no god but God; Muhammad is the prophet of God”—did not make a person a Muslim unless this faith was accompanied by righteous deeds. In other words, good works were an integral part of faith and not extraneous to it. The second principle that flowed from their aggressive idealism was militancy, or jihad, which the Khārijites considered to be among the cardinal principles, or pillars, of Islam. Contrary to the orthodox view, they interpreted the Qurʾānic command about “enjoining good and forbidding evil” to mean the vindication of truth through the sword. The placing of these two principles together made the Khārijites highly inflammable fanatics, intolerant of almost any established political authority.

My son’s engine decided to play a knock knock joke.

Here’s what it should look like.

How it looks now!

Early picture of HotLips?