The Islamic State

[Big Circus]

Semantic quibble: "Sharia" is Arabic for "law." When you say "Sharia law," you are saying "Law law." Maybe that's a small, pedantic beef along the lines of the way "anti-Semitism" has been bastardized, but it's true.

 

[Paynendearse]

Well, this just in: al-Maliki to resign.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/iraqi-prime-minister-maliki-step-aside-abadi

Well, that's good. Those ISIS soldiers will surely drop their weapons and shortly you'll here "Honey, I'm home. What's for dinner" at many an Iraqi home.

 

[JRoyal]

Map courtesy of a Twitter feed that World War II began when "Germany overthrew its overlords. It adopted a seperate banking system outside Jewish cartel influence. That is why we made war." Yeah, this is reliable. ****ty reporting, and gullible people believing ****ty reporting. Not saying ISIS isn't a threat; just saying this map and the ensuing hysteria is crap, crap that can easily be debunked.

http://io9.com/that-isis-caliphate-map-is-bogus-so-stop-freaking-ou-1598657469

 

[Football_Bat]

So the whole premise for this thread is bogus.

 

[Songbird]

Hezbollah leader: Islamic State is badass ...

... and oh, by the way, we're going to **** up Israel next time.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/nasrallah-calls-islamic-state-a-monster-threat/

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Hezbollah leader: Islamic State is badass ...

... and oh, by the way, we're going to **** up Israel next time.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/nasrallah-calls-islamic-state-a-monster-threat/

They may need Israel before ISIS is through.

 

[Songbird]

That's a lot of heads.

http://rt.com/news/180832-islamic-state-executes-tribe/

 

[old_tony]

Islamic State will always be grousing about how Islamic U. gets more coverage.

Refresh my memory: Which one of these is the one Obama referred to a "the junior varsity."

 

[YankeeFan]

New York Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel:

“Ultimately we may have some boots on the ground there,” Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We need to do everything we can to repel ISIS. I don't think we have the luxury of putting our heads in the sand and saying, well, it's over there and we're not going to do it.”

Engel, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, added “that’s not something I want, but you know what, we have that choices and the worse choice is to do nothing.”

“If we allow ISIS to get bigger and bigger, they're going to plot homeland attacks on us,” he added.

http://nydn.us/1m94QDR

 

[YankeeFan]

https://twitter.com/sebphoto/status/500200234300239872

http://bit.ly/1pQI5Zf

 

[YankeeFan]

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

 

[YankeeFan]

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

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Islamic State will always be grousing about how Islamic U. gets more coverage.

Refresh my memory: Which one of these is the one Obama referred to a "the junior varsity."

Neither. It was Notre Islam.

 

[Starman]

Islamic CC always gets the **** coverage.

 

[Songbird]

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

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

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.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Islamic CC always gets the **** coverage.

You are costing them martyrs due to lack of coverage!

 

[Songbird]

Only because they're UNRELIALLAHBLE!

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Only because they're UNRELIALLAHBLE!

<Slow clap>

 

[Paynendearse]

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.

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.