The Islamic State Thread

DarkSpectre said:
ISIS is now all over Iraq like bacon-fearing, barbaric, vile and Allah dick sucking worms that they are. The opportunity to strike them down while they were being formed into one of the most dangerous terrorist groups. Good job, Obama. You will always be remember for this. ISIS owes you a huge thank you card.



The situation in Iraq is totally different now. No WMD bull**** this time. Like Islam, ISIS poses a very serious threat to world peace. They must be contained at all costs before it gets too late.
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And you think another ISIS won't pop up?

And blaming Obama for this is just plain ignorant. He can't do as he pleases. As I said, there's this thing called 'Congress'.

Besides, what do you want him/them to do? Send in thousands of troops, re-establish military control over the whole Iraq?
 
OrbitalDawn said:
And you think another ISIS won't pop up?

And blaming Obama for this is just plain ignorant. He can't do as he pleases. As I said, there's this thing called 'Congress'.

Besides, what do you want him/them to do? Send in thousands of troops, re-establish military control over the whole Iraq?
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I have to agree with OB, the United States had huge criticism and over boiling temperaments in Congress. People having a problem with this = Fence sitters.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
And you think another ISIS won't pop up?

And blaming Obama for this is just plain ignorant. He can't do as he pleases. As I said, there's this thing called 'Congress'.

Besides, what do you want him/them to do? Send in thousands of troops, re-establish military control over the whole Iraq?
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Yep. Help Iraq eliminate ISIS at all costs. When it's accomplished, everybody can go home happily :)
 
GERMANY FLIES HUMANITARIAN AID TO IRAQ

Five German air force planes have taken off for Iraq with 36 tons of humanitarian aid to help civilians uprooted by fighting in the north of the country.

Air force spokesman Capt. Andre Hesse said the planes left early Friday carrying drinking water, blankets, medicine and food to be unloaded in Irbil and handed over to U.N. organizations.

Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said earlier this week that Germany was planning to also send non-lethal military aid such as vehicles, night-vision gear and bomb detectors.

In an interview with German daily Bild published Friday, Von der Leyen was quoted as saying that "weapons are already being delivered by other nations; we are examining at present what other military equipment we can send."


Source : Sapa-AP /ar
Date : 15 Aug 2014 12:27
 
Garyvdh said:
GERMANY FLIES HUMANITARIAN AID TO IRAQ

Five German air force planes have taken off for Iraq with 36 tons of humanitarian aid to help civilians uprooted by fighting in the north of the country.

Air force spokesman Capt. Andre Hesse said the planes left early Friday carrying drinking water, blankets, medicine and food to be unloaded in Irbil and handed over to U.N. organizations.

Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said earlier this week that Germany was planning to also send non-lethal military aid such as vehicles, night-vision gear and bomb detectors.

In an interview with German daily Bild published Friday, Von der Leyen was quoted as saying that "weapons are already being delivered by other nations; we are examining at present what other military equipment we can send."


Source : Sapa-AP /ar
Date : 15 Aug 2014 12:27
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Good on Germany!
 
Islamic State fanatics kidnap more than 3,000 women and girls in 2 week rampage

Islamic State fanatics kidnap more than 3,000 women and girls in 2 week rampage

Up to 3,000 women and girls have been kidnapped by Islamic State thugs on the rampage in Iraq over the past two weeks, it is feared.

They face the terrifying prospect of being forced into marriage or sold as sex slaves, reports the Sunday People.

Snip...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/islamic-state-fanatics-kidnap-more-4062810
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Of course, Muslims protested.

Police officers attacked and stock thrown around as Gaza protestors 'wreak havoc' in Tesco store

*Around 100 protestors gathered outside Tesco in Hodge Hill, Birmingham
*Some then entered the premises, threw stock around and 'got aggressive'
*More than 20 police officers were sent to try to control the demonstrators
*One of the Gaza protestors was arrested for assaulting an officer at store
*Twitter users have condemned the incident, deeming it 'wrong' and 'idiotic'

Police officers were attacked and stock was thrown around today as Gaza protestors 'wreaked havoc' in a Tesco store.

Around 100 demonstrators gathered outside the shop in Hodge Hill, Birmingham, before some of them entered the premises.

Once inside, they started hurling produce around and 'getting aggressive' - leaving both staff and shoppers traumatised.

Photos of the protest show more than 20 police officers trying to control demonstrators, while Tesco products are seen strewn across the floor.

West Midlands Police said one person was later arrested for assaulting its officers, while a further two had to be escorted from the premises.

Today, Tesco customers took to social media to share their experiences of the protest against the Gaza conflict, which resulted in nearby roads being cordoned off by police.

One told Birminghamupdates.com: 'I was just in the Tesco in Hodge Hill, scanning my items and I heard chanting.

'Then a group of Asian men holding Palestinian flags came walking in and starting to push products over and getting aggressive with staff and shoppers.

'Police officers tried to stop them but I ran out.'

The protestors, many of whom were waving flags and placards, were calling on Tesco to stop all trade with Israeli agricultural companies.

This evening, Twitter users condemned the demonstrators' actions, which many deemed 'wrong' and 'idiotic'.

User Abe Sanoe wrote: 'Right to protest is one thing, but vandalism is dead wrong', while Mehr Ali said: 'How is this going to help Gaza. Idiots.'

Pavandeep Padda tweeted: 'HOW does boycotting a Tesco Supermarket... help the situation in Gaza? Like seriously?'

Meanwhile, Elizabeth Conlon said: 'Peaceful protest? I think not. Disgusting!'

Rania Atalla added: 'This makes no sense.'

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: 'Our officers dealt with a protest at Tesco Hodge Hill this morning where some disorder was reported. One arrested for assaulting police.

'The protest was largely peaceful among the 100 protesters but some began throwing stock inside Tesco store. Two escorted from premises.'

A spokesman for Tesco said the demonstration resulted in 'minimal damage' to goods.

He added that the store was closed for 'just a few minutes' before it was reopened.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Gaza-protestors-wreak-havoc-Tesco-store.html
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KURDS FIGHT TO RETAKE IRAQ'S LARGEST DAM AFTER 'MASSACRE'

Kurdish forces backed by US warplanes battled on Saturday to retake Iraq's largest dam from jihadist fighters, a day after militants carried out a "massacre" of dozens of villagers.

Two months of violence have brought Iraq to the brink of breakup, and world powers relieved by the exit of long-time premier Nuri al-Maliki were sending aid to the displaced and arms to the Kurds.

Kurdish forces attacked the Islamic State (IS) fighters who had wrested the Mosul dam from them a week earlier, a general told AFP.

"Kurdish peshmerga, with US air support, have seized control of the eastern side of the dam" complex, Major General Abdulrahman Korini told AFP, saying several jihadists had been killed.

The US military said it carried out nine airstrikes Saturday near the dam and the Kurdish capital Arbil in an effort to help the Kurdish forces.

US Central Command said fighter jets and drones had destroyed or damaged four armoured personnel carriers, seven armed vehicles, two Humvees and an armored vehicle.

Buoyed by the air strikes US President Barack Obama ordered last week, the peshmerga fighters have tried to claw back the ground they lost since the start of August.

The dam on the Tigris provides electricity to much of the region, and is crucial to irrigation in vast farming areas in Nineveh province.

The recapture of Mosul dam would be one of the most significant achievements in a fightback that is also getting international material support.

A day after the European Union foreign ministers encouraged the bloc's member countries to send arms to the Kurds, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Iraq.

Steinmeier, whose country hosts the largest diaspora of the Yazidi religious group in the West, visited the autonomous region to assess the needs of the displaced, many of whom are Yazidis, and the peshmerga.

Fear of an impending genocide against members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, whose faith is anathema to the Sunni Muslim extremists, was one reason Washington cited for air strikes it began on August 8.

Senior Kurdish official Hoshyar Zebari said that in the village of Kocho, jihadists on Friday "took their revenge on its inhabitants, who happened to be mostly Yazidis who did not flee their homes".

Human rights groups and residents say IS fighters have demanded that members of religious minorities in Iraq's Nineveh province, where Kocho is located, either convert or leave, unleashing violent reprisals on any who refused.

Zebari put the toll at around 80 people killed in Kocho, while a senior official of one of Iraq's main Kurdish parties said 81 had lost their lives, and a Yazidi activist said the death toll could be even higher.

The village lies near the northwestern town of Sinjar, which the jihadists stormed on August 3, sending tens of thousands of civilians, many of them Yazidi Kurds, fleeing onto Mount Sinjar to the north.

They hid there for days with little food or water.

Mohsen Tawwal, a Yazidi fighter, said he saw a large number of bodies in Kocho on Friday.

"We made it into a part of Kocho village, where residents were under siege, but we were too late," he told AFP by telephone.

"There were corpses everywhere. We only managed to get two people out alive. The rest had all been killed."

Amnesty International, which has been documenting mass abductions in the Sinjar area, says IS has kidnapped thousands of Yazidis since it launched its offensive in the region on August 3.

Members of the Christian, Turkmen and other minorities have also been affected by the violence.

In New York, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at weakening the jihadists, who control large areas of neighbouring Syria as well as of Iraq.

The resolution "calls on all member states to take national measures to suppress the flow of foreign terrorist fighters", and threatens sanctions against anyone involved in their recruitment.

When jihadist forces began their Iraq offensive on June 9, peshmerga forces initially fared better than retreating federal soldiers, but the US-made weaponry abandoned by government troops turned IS into an even more formidable foe.

The militants were able to sweep through the Sunni Arab heartland north and west of Baghdad in June, encountering little effective resistance, and Iraqi federal security forces have yet to make significant headway in regaining ground.

In another setback, a roadside bomb on Saturday killed the engineer tasked with repairing a key bridge north of Baghdad, the loss of which has hampered operations farther north.

Many in and outside Iraq say the Shiite-led government was partly to blame by pushing sectarian policies that have marginalised and radicalised the Sunni minority.

Maliki was seen as an obstacle to any progress, and his announcement on Thursday that he was abandoning his efforts to cling to power was welcomed with a sigh of relief at home and abroad.

Source : Sapa-AFP /mr
Date : 17 Aug 2014 04:08
 
Another thread where the idiotic bleaters from the Gaza threads are conspicuously absent ......
 
undesign said:
More Misunderstanders of Islam...
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i think i may have had a mini epiphany

whenever there is raging debate about violence, it is always stated that the perpetrators do not understand islam

then when there is debate about the quran, it is always stated that the original arabic quran must be used as reference
(read - "lost in translation")

not that many of the often trotted out 1.6 billion . . .actually speak arabic
thus, not many followers understand the quaran upon which islam is based.


so, what possible hope is there for the rest of us dhimmiwits ?
 
U.S. airstrike against ISIL armed truck near the Mosul Dam

[video=youtube;EHPvs-eo55w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHPvs-eo55w[/video]
 
grantza said:
i think i may have had a mini epiphany

whenever there is raging debate about violence, it is always stated that the perpetrators do not understand islam

then when there is debate about the quran, it is always stated that the original arabic quran must be used as reference
(read - "lost in translation")

not that many of the often trotted out 1.6 billion . . .actually speak arabic
thus, not many followers understand the quaran upon which islam is based.


so, what possible hope is there for the rest of us dhimmiwits ?
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Sam Harris sums it up here:

Of course, some Muslims do denounce terrorism or groups like ISIS, but they almost always do this in a dishonest and self-serving way. They will say that these people “do not represent Islam.” But this is just obscurantism. When not actually lying and seeking to implement their own sinister agenda—here I’m thinking of a group like CAIR—they are just expressing their fear of being associated with such sickening behavior. Most Muslims don’t want their faith tarnished. They don’t want any hassles from the TSA. They don’t want to be stigmatized. All of this is perfectly understandable but perfectly wrongheaded, given the reality of what is going on in the world. The scandal here is that so few Muslims are speaking honestly about problematic doctrines within their faith. The few who are—such as Asra Nomani, Irshad Manji, and Maajid Nawaz—are heroes. The crucial difference is that they admit that the doctrines related to martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, the rights of women, etc. really are at the bottom of all the intolerance and violence we see in the House of Islam. And, needless to say, these brave people are regularly denounced and threatened by their fellow Muslims.
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