Posted on 08/21/2014 9:43:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You can understand if President Obama would rather talk about the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq, where he has scored some victories, than talk about the unholy mess in Ferguson, Mo. Surprisingly, though, ISIS militants are following developments in the St. Louis suburb, and some of them would rather focus on that. According to interviews and social media, members of the group and sympathizers with its jihadist ideology are closely tracking the events in the St. Louis suburb, where protesters and police have clashed. In it, they see opportunity.
Partly, the focus is strategic: Officers in Ferguson have used military transports and weapons similar to those used by U.S. troops in Iraq. But militants are also claiming vindication — that their arguments about American oppression were right all along. “Well this clearly shows that all this talk about democracy and equality of people in the west is just hypocrisy,” said Abu Sameer after a private autopsy sought by the family of Michael Brown showed that the 18-year-old had been shot at least six times. Abu Sameer lives in France and identifies himself as a member of the Islamic State, a group that has conducted a campaign of mass killings and other atrocities in northern Iraq....
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corrupt media is providing material for ISIS
They’re exploiting the situation for recruitment.
…What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person, and what kind of a society will we have 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually?”
...Jesse I-Is Jackson 1977
I watched a bit of CNN last night. Jake Tapper was reading the signs he could see. He said over here is a ISIS sign. He didn’t even miss a beat continued to walk thru the crowd. Didn’t even question it.
But if it had been a “John 3:16” sign he’d have probably ripped it out of that person’s hands and spit on him.
Don’t you know it!
Thread above: “A young girl, who claims she was standing up for her religious beliefs in the classroom, was suspended after breaking a class rule of saying “bless you” after a classmate sneezed.”
After six years of Obama, you just can’t make this stuff up.
Of course if a muzzie said, for ex. “Sha’loam Shaleckem” (sp?) and if a classmate asked, “What does that mean?” you can be sure who would be suspended.
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