I feel like if history has taught us anything, it's to maybe not get the Germans and the Russians too fired up. Going after both at the same time appears colossally stupid to me.
Ol Corsi Hockey league posted a good (but long) article about ISIS.
That is exactly what they want. They are trying to piss off the West as much as possible to provoke the West invasion and war. They want to all die in a beautiful apocolypse, and when only a few fighters remain, god comes and saves them or some #### like that and the whole world turns muslim. Their intention is to anger Germany, France, Russia, UK and the USA (and the allies of those countries) as much as possible.
They want to return to the 7th century of war and violence.
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The strange part to me is why they care about the geo-politics of the middle east. Do you? I don't care at all about what happens in Asia. I'm not sure an Italian or Brazillian born in Canada would care much about Italy or Brazil
I guess I'm an assimilated Canadian. I'm not that religious either.
So I feel Muslims have a lot of pressures in society so maybe that's why they feel it's an uphill battle?
I've thought about this too.
During Remembrance Day, I was reading the testimonies of the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association. This is a group of Canadian soldiers who were sent to the Hong Kong garrison during World War II and who were rapidly overrun, killed, tortured, and imprisoned by the Japanese.
As I read these stories, my anger and rage grew against the Japanese because of the heinous acts of gang rape, mutilation, torture, murder, and war crimes inflicted on both the Canadian soldiers and the local Chinese men, women, and children.
There is no possible way to make you understand the heinous crimes these scum perpetrated against men, women and children in China and again in Japan. In Hong Kong, nurses (who were non-combatants and along with civilian women gave their services 24 hours a day) were gang raped, mutilated and shot by the Japanese. Often, at our first camp in Hong Kong, we would see the bodies of men, women and children floating in the harbour where these sons of hell had thrown them. Life is cheap in the Orient, but not that cheap. I once heard someone say, since my return to Canada, that all the Japs in the world should be put on the shores of Japan and then blown off the map with the atomic bomb.
One day, as we were standing at the fence looking out, a Chinese girl came along with 2 little boys and a little baby on her back. She merely looked at us and the Japs called her over and started to beat her up. The little boys started to cry from fright and the Japs shot them where they stood. The girl, afraid that the baby would get hurt, asked to set it down. For an answer, a dirty Nip grabbed the baby and smashed its head against the wall. They finished by gang raping the girl and then putting a bayonet in her stomach. This is not hearsay; I actually saw this with my own eyes. When they were finished, they brought 2 of our boys out and made them bury the 4 bodies. One of the fellows said the girl was still alive when they picked her up, so he protested and the Japs told him to shut up and then smashed her head in with a rifle butt. The boys took them in a wheelbarrow and threw them into a hole and buried them. I don't think they ate any supper that night.
If you find this little episode too hard to believe, let me tell you that this was just the lighter moments in a Jap's life. On December 27th, while on a burial party, we found an officer and 5 enlisted men with their hands wired behind their backs, bayoneted in the stomachs, gas poured over them and set afire. Still hard to believe? Then how about the sergeant who was captured and had a rifle placed in his rectum. The bullet came out his stomach. He was left for dead but he crawled 5 miles to a hospital.
Remember what happened in Palewan, in the Philippine Islands? 150 POW'S were placed in an air raid shelter, gas was poured in on them and they were set afire. As they came running out, they were machine gunned and bayoneted. Some smashed their brains out by jumping over the cliffs; others tried to swim away and were either shot or drowned. I believe about 6 escaped. The Palewan episode can be found in Liberty magazine. Gruesome stories like the above are being spread in mosques and across social media...but this time the sides are the men, women, & children of Islamic societies vs the West.
While I was reading this account, I wanted nothing more than to go back in time and kill those soldiers who were perpetrating these acts. These are the acts committed by monsters over 70 years ago against people 70 years dead and it still burns in my recent memory and made me want to take up arms against injustice like this. As a Canadian of Asian extract, I can't help but relate to people in these accounts and feel a completely illogical desire to avenge something that occurred completely out of time and place from my own lifespan. It's human nature to rage (internally or externally) at feelings of injustice.
As Muslims have told me, the sense of injustice that many Muslims feel regarding the collateral damage to their faith and "own people" in the middle east both contribute to to these acts but also create an atmosphere in which radicalism can gestate, feed on, and exploit to drive ordinary people to committing violence.
Excellent read. It completely contradicts those who believe that ISIS is just full of murderers and psychopaths who don't care about religion, ISIS is built on one of the strictest interpretations of Islam we've ever seen.
Islam desperately needs it's own new-testament version of the Koran, yet at the same time also seems the religion least capable of adapting to modern times
This has always baffled me. Sure, it may be comforting and even get you some cheap applaud to refer to all these people as mentally deranged psychopaths bent on deliberately perpetrating pure evil... but how on Earth did they manage to find so many evil psychopaths and organize them all so well? It's a theory that should fall apart after thinking about it for ten seconds.
The better answer is that when indoctrinated with horrifying ideas, people who might, in a different universe, been perfectly well-adjusted members of a modern global society behave in awful ways.
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This has always baffled me. Sure, it may be comforting and even get you some cheap applaud to refer to all these people as mentally deranged psychopaths bent on deliberately perpetrating pure evil... but how on Earth did they manage to find so many evil psychopaths and organize them all so well? It's a theory that should fall apart after thinking about it for ten seconds.
The better answer is that when indoctrinated with horrifying ideas, people who might, in a different universe, been perfectly well-adjusted members of a modern global society behave in awful ways.
Part of the reason is that they have some former senior Iraqi military people in their ranks. It helps organize them, but also gives them credibility to those that want to join.
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This has always baffled me. Sure, it may be comforting and even get you some cheap applaud to refer to all these people as mentally deranged psychopaths bent on deliberately perpetrating pure evil... but how on Earth did they manage to find so many evil psychopaths and organize them all so well? It's a theory that should fall apart after thinking about it for ten seconds.
The better answer is that when indoctrinated with horrifying ideas, people who might, in a different universe, been perfectly well-adjusted members of a modern global society behave in awful ways.
Because if you admit this, then you might have to acknowledge that they're human beings, and that we could be susceptible to the same things under the right circumstances. For a lot of people, it's much easier just to consider them as anomalies.
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It appears the stadium was evacuated due to a credible threat, all of the stories of finding bombs/truck bombs/ambulance bombs were fabrications filtered through the echo chamber.
It sounds like something was definitely planned to take place. The bomb-packed ambulance may have been fake but it seems like there were bombs somewhere.
I kinda want to post this to facebook but I feel like half the people on there, who have done the flag thing, will think I'm being curmudgeonly. Which is pretty ironic given the content.
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I kinda want to post this to facebook but I feel like half the people on there, who have done the flag thing, will think I'm being curmudgeonly. Which is pretty ironic given the content.
I like how well he articulated that. I found those flag profile pics to be very hollow (and distasteful as a result). Not on twitter, but I assume the hashtagging was just as weak.
I kinda want to post this to facebook but I feel like half the people on there, who have done the flag thing, will think I'm being curmudgeonly. Which is pretty ironic given the content.
I don't think you're being curmudgeonly, but it's also not a particularly profound take.
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