While ISIS has no land left to launch strikes anywhere around the world, thanks to the Americans, Russians, Syriann and Kurdistani people; ISIS venous vipers are probably hiding in the grass and could launch attacks. Mr. Al-Muhajir and AlBaghdadi, the ISIS leaders are possibly still hiding in some safe havens some where. But the word has probably spread that if ISIS fighters find them before the US or Russian army they will receive prompt justice.
The news of the complete demise of every member and supporter of ISIS is highly exgerrated..........Modified from Mark Twain
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Is this the best they can do. ISIS and its who supporters see their victory in terms of body counts. How many of believers or non-believers died.
If they had the capacity to calculate they will see that wherever ISIS reigned for Sunnis, like Raqqa or Mosul, the total number of Sunnis dead plus the total number who moved to Germany exponentially greater than the number of Yazidis murdered and raped or Shias beheaded.
Non-violent religions are more successful in growing their numbers and staying on their lands. Peace wins. Plus air power.
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What a grave disservice to Muslims everywhere. How can they hope to live in peace, as their religion preaches, with calls for revenge by Mr. al-Muhajir? He does not speak for Muslims but only for the Islamic State.
That fact should be foremost in the minds of readers of this story. Calls to arms of this kind should be ignored. He is the self-appointed spokesperson for a failed outlaw government, not a leader of the Muslim faith.
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So, a white nationalist slaughters Muslims and ISIS uses the attack as a pretext to call for revenge. Okay, that's its narrative; and of course this is where the diverse groups of whack jobs find agreement. ISIS and the so-called nationalists thrive on the chaos they create. But when a "leader," for the purpose of my point, let's say Trump, reacts to an outrage performed by a Muslim by lambasting Muslims in general and using it to bolster his hate/rhetoric, how different is his rhetoric from that of the terrorists? Just wondering.
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Re photo_caption: "...The Islamic State spokesman likened the massacre at New Zealand mosques to the assault on the group’s last sliver of land in Syria..."
Plz pardon my cynical, sarcastic laughter!
Religious faith as a human cultural institution, is a dead, bloated, 'n, stinking corpse!
I.S.I.S., and/or, the Roman hierarchic's, to cite 2 glaring examples, are 101% responsible!
I view I.S.I.S., and/or...any / all 'faith' efforts, where a particular faith demands everyone join the '1 true faith', in exactly the same moral light as I view the late M. Atta / T. McVeigh / this, (Christchurch), mass_murderer!!
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Thankfully most people who have prejudices of some sort or another, race, religion, etc., do not act violently on them. All of us, regardless of race, sex, religion have our prejudices. It is a part of being human and studies have shown this to be true. The saving grace for us all is to be exposed to the ones who are not like us, either as neighbors, class mates, work, travel, religious institutions or other benign proximity. This will help us to find common ground and perhaps friendship with diverse people. This is why desegregation in neighborhoods and schools, diversity in workplaces is essential. We cannot live in a bubble, we must expand our group. We will still have psychotics who kill or try to, but we will have many more upholding the law.
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Until I became older, and hopefully wiser, I lived my life like most Americans, walking around in this little bubble of work, friends, family, oblivious to most of the world. I never really understood just how many racist people existed, took the time to understand different cultures and people, never considered the extent our government goes to in order to spy on Americans and how so many within the government funneled our tax dollars to themselves and so many corporations, and certainly didn’t realize the extent of terrorists across the world.
I have come to realize all these things. The hatred in the hearts of so many people. How people can hate and harm someone for nothing more than not having the “right” color of skin, the right ancestry, or the right religion.
As I grew up I didn’t realize that so many people in so many parts of the world still live like they did 2,000 years ago and today I still don’t understand why so many seem to still be fighting the Crusades.
I will never understand how so many human beings can take the words printed within a book of a religion, twist them around, and commit such atrocities in the name of their God or Allah, or how another human being can utterly hate the people of that religion so much that they walk into a place of worship and leave a path of death in their wake.
As I sit here in my home, it still seems in a way like some made up horror story because I don’t want to believe that mankind can still be so ignorant and deadly.
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@David Parchert Just to put things in perspective.
7-9 January 2015: Charlie Hebdo attacks kill 22 people.
26 June 2015: In Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, a Muslim decapitated a Frenchman and rammed a van into cylinders at a gas factory trying to start an explosion.
13-14 November 2015: The horrendous Paris attacks killed 137 people in the single deadliest terrorist outrage in French history
13 June 2016: At Magnanville, a policeman and his wife were murdered by a jihadist.
14 July 2016: A truck was driven into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice. The driver, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, killed 86 people.
26 July 2016: In Normandy two jihadists attacked a church during mass, killing an 86-year-old priest.
1 October 2017: A Muslim stabbed to death two young women at a Marseille train station. Before he was shot dead he shouted Allahu Akbar.
23 March 2018: A Muslim stole a car in Carcassonne, killing the passenger, went to Trèbes, attacked a supermarket, killed three people and injured several others.
12 May 2018: A Chechen-born “Frenchman” stabbed to death one pedestrian and injured several others near the Garnier Opera in Paris.
11 December 2018: In Strasbourg a gunman opened fire just outside the Christmas Market, killing 5 and injuring 11.
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@David Parchert
"... Still be fighting the Crusades"? It may be hard to believe, but you need only follow the news and/or spend some time in the southeastern part of the United States to find that there are still thousands of people still fighting the Civil War in our own country.
Check out the map of hate groups on the website of the
Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC has identified some 31 hate groups in the state of Michigan - and 22 such groups in my own state of Colorado.
It is indeed hard to believe that our species can still be so ignorant and deadly in the 21st century. Sadly, it is true. The list of violent events by Work_Smarter (below) is yet another declaration of how widespread this type of horrific activity is. And this list is for one country only.
You are not alone is your concern. To be candid, I do not have a solution to how our country or the world addresses thie problem of hate effectively.
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Okay, well I guess I am missing the point. Are you trying to say that because of your lists of crimes committed by possible people of Muslim religion that the man who murdered 50 in a mosque was justified in doing so? The “perspective” I was making is that there seems to be no end to the despicable acts committed by human beings in the name of a god or racial/religious hatred.
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What could he have planning? Retaliation against who exactly. Sounds terrifying.
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Not unlike how Trump's critics are using this tragedy. Those poor victims. They are being used like fodder to fuel people's animus.
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