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Fortunately, our betters have instructed us not to get on our high horses about things like this ISIS video anymore.
Because they're just a JV team, and have nothing to do with Islam, and, and, well — the Crusades were pretty bad too, maaaan!
(Targets don't seem quite so random to those in the crosshairs. ISIS video screenshot reproduced via The Times of Israel)
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Some "random attacks" by the JV team. Welcome to the Dark Ages.
The winged bulls featured on Iraq currency since the 1950's are gone forever. pic.twitter.com/IOhn8loOdy
— Ihsan (@Thawra_city) February 26, 2015
UPDATE (Mar 3 / 2014): Turns out the majority of the Mosul Museum exhibits destroyed in this ISIS video were replicas. The winged bull however, was the genuine article.
The apocalyptic world-view of ISIS (and how it differs from al-Qaeda)
“We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women,” [Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Adnani], the [ISIS] spokesman, promised in one of his periodic valentines to the West. “If we do not reach that time, then our children and grandchildren will reach it, and they will sell your sons as slaves at the slave market.”
What a surprise. Just like Barack Obama's statement that the attack on the kosher deli in Paris was just a random attack on "a bunch of folks".
(Just "a bunch of folks", randomly targeted. Jewish. Jewish. Jewish…and Jewish. Notice any pattern? 'Cause if you do, you may be smarter than Barack H. Obama! Image from The Gateway Pundit)
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"Mmmmf, mmmfff, mmmffffff!"
What rape culture REALLY looks like.
"And all married women (are forbidden unto you) except those (captives) whom your right hands possess."
— The Koran, 4:24 [emphasis added]
"We try to avoid describing anyone as a terrorist or an act as being terrorist. What we try to do is to say that 'two men killed 12 people in an attack on the office of a satirical magazine'. That’s enough, we know what that means and what it is," said [Tarik] Kafala.
"Terrorism is such a loaded word," he added. "The UN has been struggling for more than a decade to define the word and they can’t. It is very difficult to. We know what political violence is, we know what murder, bombings and shootings are and we describe them. That’s much more revealing, we believe, than using a word like terrorist which people will see as value-laden." [emphasis added]
You know who doesn't have a hard time figuring out who a terrorist is?
Probably P.O.W. Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, roasted alive after being doused in gasoline, that's who.
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The Islamic State calls upon disaffected Muslims in Western countries to emulate Mohamed bin Maslama, Abdullah bin Unais, Fairus bin Dulaymi – terrorist contemporaries of the "prophet" Mohammed who did his bidding.
Bios via Wikipedia:
"In 624, Muhammad ibn Maslamah volunteered when Muhammad called upon his followers to kill Ka'b, a chief of the Banu Nadir, who had written poetry which Muslims found offensive." [emphasis added]
"…it was reported that Khaled bin Sufyan Al-Hathali…considered an attack on Madinah and that he was inciting the people on Nakhla or Uranah to fight Muslims. So Muhammad sent Abdullah ibn Unais to assassinate him. After cutting off Sufyan bin Khalid's head at night, Unais brought it back to Muhammad." [emphasis added]
"He was sent out by Muhammad to assassinate Aswad Ansi, who had claimed prophethood in Yemen." [emphasis added]
Easy for him to say.
But the distinction may be lost on the two Japanese hostages scheduled for beheading, as their executioners recite prayers from the Koran…and scream, "Allahu Akbar," while they hack with the knives.
