Runner "'; Which "moral base" were they drawing upon, do you think?'
obviously the one you share Pericles where right and wrong are made up by humans as it suits them."

Would that be humans similar to those who wrote the Bible and the Koran Runner?
No god wrote either of those books....humans did, moral or not.

Certainly ISIS holds the current nasty religion based group of the year award, but other religious groups of all denominations have all had their go in the past.
This mad crowd aren't the first, and sadly won't be the last.

'Certainly ISIS holds the current nasty religion based group of the year award but other religious groups of all denominations have all had their go in the past. '

probably compatible Susie with the feminist doctrines of killing babies or Marxism. Yeah at least we agree that human nature is very corrupt. Usually those in denial are the worse culprits.

Dear Bazz,

<<Yuyutsu, are there any references in Jewish histories to the attacks
on Jewish towns/villages near to Medina or other Islamic cities ?>>

According to Spencer there are many such records of Jewish and other tribes from that period, describing how they were conquered by Arabs - however none of these mention "Muhammad", "Islam" or "Koran" even in a word.

I would describe myself as being of the left and I fully support stopping ISIS and every other organisation involved in human trafficking.

It isn't only ISIS that has been involved in human trafficking, private military contractors like DynCorp have also been involved in questionable activities over many years, and yet still receive multi-billion dollar Pentagon contracts without ever being put in the "penalty box".

Congresswoman McKinney questioned Donald Rumsfeld about this in 2006
"I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech ... in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, ... Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px1t1-a9uxk

In 2010 there was another Dyncorp scandal - for which no employee was ever charged.
"Two Afghan policemen and nine other Afghans were arrested as part of investigations into a crime described by Atmar as "purchasing a service from a child", which the cable said was against both sharia law and the civil code. ...an incident of "questionable management oversight" in which foreign DynCorp workers "hired a teenage boy to perform a tribal dance at a company farewell party"."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/02/foreign-contractors-hired-dancing-boys

One easy way we could stop ISIS would be to encourage our closest Islamic allies, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to stop supporting the spread of Wahhabism (fundamentalist Islam) and terrorist organisations.

"There is evidence that... “Qatar’s military and economic largesse has made its way to Jabhat al-Nusra”, an al-Qaida group operating in Syria. ... Germany’s development minister, Gerd Mueller, was slapped down after pointing the finger at Qatar for funding Islamic State (Isis). ... According to a secret memo signed by Hillary Clinton, released by Wikileaks, Qatar has the worst record of counter-terrorism cooperation with the US."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/31/combat-terror-end-support-saudi-arabia-dictatorships-fundamentalism