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The Islamic State

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Songbird, Aug 9, 2014.

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  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    New York Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel:

     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    John Beck @JM_Beck · 34m

    1/2 We’re hearing from security source that group of Yezidi civilians is being chased by #IS in stolen armoured vehicles on east Mt. #Sinjar

    2/2 Group includes women & children & can't be reached by peshmerga. US have been given coords multiple times in 48hrs but not taking action
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Hundreds of Yazidi women who were captured by Islamic extremists during their sweep through the town of Sinjar are being incarcerated at scattered locations across northern Iraq in what increasingly looks like a deliberate attempt to co-opt them into service as the wives of fighters.

    As the militants with the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State surged into the area from surrounding Arab villages two weeks ago, snaring those who had not managed to flee, they showed a marked interest in detaining women, notably the youngest and prettiest, according to witnesses, relatives and in some instances the women themselves.

    Women were separated from men, then younger women were separated from older ones and most were shunted off in buses or trucks.

    Once in custody, the women are presented with a bleak choice.

    Those who convert to Islam can be promised a good life, with a house of their own and — implicitly — a Muslim husband, because the extreme interpretation of Islam promoted by the Islamic State does not permit women to live alone.

    Otherwise, they have been told, they can expect a life of indefinite imprisonment — or, they fear, death.


    http://wapo.st/1oFTPzz
     
  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Neither. It was Notre Islam.
     
  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Islamic CC always gets the shit coverage.
     
  7. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Saw this for the first time though it's a few months old. The back and forth reminds me of bickering here.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=427180640761529
     
  8. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Israel left the Strip in 2005.
    They left a very good infrastructure for the Palestinians to reshape their lives.
    What did the Palestinians do with this? They tore it all down.
    Greenhouses, farms, houses, sewer and water pipes ... to make bombs to lob into Israel.
     
  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    You are costing them martyrs due to lack of coverage!
     
  10. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Only because they're UNRELIALLAHBLE!
     
  11. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    <Slow clap>
     
  12. Paynendearse

    Paynendearse Member

    All because some Mullah told them these were gifts from the Infidel that must be cleansed by the burning of hell's fire upon it.
     
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