Posted on 02/04/2015 8:40:03 PM PST by PROCON
Fox News took the controversial step yesterday of posting the 22-minute video from the Islamic State terror group that shows Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned to death. To alert Internet users to what’s in the video, the presentation features these words: “WARNING, EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIDEO”
Fox’s decision drew condemnation from terrorism experts consulted by The Guardian: “[Fox News] are literally – literally – working for al-Qaida and Isis’s media arm,” said Malcolm Nance of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideology. “They might as well start sending them royalty checks.” Twitter also fielded some negativity, for what that’s worth.
The network explained today why it posted the video. “After careful consideration, we decided that giving readers of FoxNews.com the option to see for themselves the barbarity of ISIS outweighed legitimate concerns about the graphic nature of the video,” said John Moody, who as Fox News’s executive vice president and executive editor has authority over the Web site. “Online users can choose to view or not view this disturbing content.”
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“They” want this suppressed for the same reason that they’ve suppressed the videos and pictures of 9-11, “they” don’t want to offend the Arab money bags that supports their lavish lifestyles.
You know, a lot of people during WWII did not believe that the Holocaust happened - until they saw the movie footage of the camps.
Same with ISIS. A lot of people won’t believe they are evil - unless they see footage like the Jordanian pilot’s death.
Should be on ALL networks ...
Someone needs. to tell Malcolm that his counterterrorism efforts sure aren’t working.
I don’t want to watch it, but I’m glad I was given the option. Fox did the right thing.
I was a little kid during WWII. During the Saturday afternoon matinees at the movie theater the newsreels showed us pictures
of soldiers fighting and dying...lots of death...bodies smoldering. Then Daffy Duck would come on. After that would be Roy Rogers.
Life magazine was full of graphic war images.
I agree totally
Okay...
So the islamists are baiting the west into a global war. The only question we need to answer here is whether we love peace more than liberty. So with that question answered, what remains is to decide how to respond.
These islamists do not believe that americans have the capacity to respond appropriately to their savagery. I happen to agree with them in that respect. We might go in and for four years we will clobber a bunch of camel jockeys and empty tents with Multi Million dollar Air to Ground Missiles. We might even roll over it with a Billion dollar ground war. But the enemy within will be screaming and banging peace drums in the streets. They will start rioting and bombing our infrastructure with impunity. Because they value peace over liberty. The demagogues and carpetbaggers will ride that energy into office. Then the next president will again shut down the process before it is completed. The decision will be made and the enemy will be saved to taunt the west again. Is there anyone left in the world that really thinks in their heart without partisan sophistry we’re not already in the conflagration of world war III and have been for decades now?
What we are failing to grasp is that there is no deterrence without a credible threat of the use of force. So if we are not willing to commit unapologetic genocide against these islamist forces, then we are authorizing their activities. We need to kill them all, Root and Branch. This is the response that they demand. Anything short of that leaves the root of this weed in the ground. If this nation is not willing to leave a smoking hole of salted ground and weeping children where mecca used to be. If we are not willing to start on a campaign of unapologetic destruction of entire regions such that there is a loss of their ability to recover. If we are not willing to do that then we do not deserve the position of leadership. If we are not willing to stand behind our allies and scorch the earth where their enemy is. Then we should back down and let the Chinese take global leadership. They have the backbone required to do what’s necessary against these Islamic fascists. The risk then is that we will then be subjects to a bloodthirsty revolutionary maoist regime. So pick your poison.
And that’s how I see it. We’ve played this game before and we’re not in it to win it. There is a time in history where a demonstration of deterrence is required. And we’re not willing to do it.
Faux is just attempting to drum up support for more new world order warmaking.
ISIS is working for new world order.
Do not be sucked in by media manipulation.
Our military men are fine soldiers, our special forces the best of the best.
But they should be employed to defend America only, not to further the nation-splitting, nation-building, government-overthrowing desires of new world order.
The very same US government that is asking for your support to supposedly “combat ISIS” is...
LETTING MUSLIMS WITH TERRORIST TIES INTO POSITIONS OF POWER WITHIN THE US GOVERNMENT.
That’s like George Washingon trying to rally support for his troops in the fight against the UK - and simultaneously purposely recruiting UK spies to serve within the provisional US government at the time. That would have been viewed as at least nonsense - if not Treason.
Washington did not do that - why are we allowing ourselves to be manipulated into supporting, in essence, the same thing (by diabolical elites who run our government and the news media) ?
Our current president isn’t interested in fighting ISIS in any serious way, which should be really obvious by now. And since he’s the C-in-C until Jan 20, 2017, we still have two years of retreating to do. Since they’ve hacked a woman’s head off here already, shot down 14 Americans at Fort Hood, attacked and murdered US military recruiters in Arkansas, set off a couple bombs in Boston, brought down the world trade center using airliners full of people, after killing people in it years before with a bomb in a failed attempt to topple one tower upon another... they smashed a hole in the side of the Pentagon with an airliner full of Americans, killed everyone on board flight 93, murdered an American ambassador, attacked a Jewish center in Seattle, attempted to set off explosives in Los Angeles airport, tried to bring down additional aircraft in creative ways, and tried to use bombs to bring airliners down over the Atlantic, among other things... they should be holding celebrity roasts in the states by that date and we won’t have time to go after them overseas.
Look, I support showing this as do most on this thread.....
.....but how many networks would have the courage to show the human burnt or torn apart remains of babies savagely pulled from the womb......
...here’s your answer......ZILCH!
We, as a nation have become so desensitized to what we’re doing, we don’t realize we’re only steps away from the savagery and horror of becoming ISIS.
I absolutely believe we need to know who the enemy is......
.......but the enemy is within as well, due to our apathy.
In the 60’s they showed monks burning themselves up all the time on TV and Life Magazine.
And Fox handled it well, making it available as an option to watch, but only with explicit warnings about its graphic, gory content.
Thank you.
As I have been reading the comments, I keep remembering who armed ISIS / ISIL and who is making nice with the Moslem Brotherhood.
IMHO ISIS is being used both to legitimize other Islamic terrorist groups that are working to bring down Western civilization and gin us up for another war / regime change / national building under R2P and the UN {whose goal is global governance).
Amazing it is Jordan that is going to kick a$$, just a “member” of the AMERICAN-LED coalition. How can they keep saying “AMERICAN-LED? That’s just not true, it is JORDIAN-LED! Also, we have to stop calling this “barbaric”...that term has nothing to do with cruelty...it means “foreign”. We could more correctly say Canadians are barbaric. We need to start getting ALL of the words correct. And yes it is ISLAMIC terrorism...our “president” IS undocumented and illegal aliens are THEIVES, stealing out tax dollars. Forget politically-correct, let’s just work on CORRECT.
I completely agree with FOX. When people read about atrocities it’s one thing, to actually see what these animals are doing is an exponentially different thing. I’ve thought for the past 13 1/2 years that the planes crashing into the WTC should be shown a couple of times a week before broadcasts .......just so we don’t become complacent...
Just out of curiosity, did ISIS's decision to burn the Jordanian pilot alive in a cage draw criticism from terrorism experts consulted by The Guardian?
Crucifixion for children and babies is next up. These people have no souls—they are product of satan and made in his image.
I think everyday they should run footage from 9/11.
Which is the real reason leftist media don't want it shown to the general public. They know the negative reaction against ISIS in particular, and Islam in general, that it would produce.
9/11, beheadings, burnings, aborted fetuses, homosexual acts...the list goes on. If you don’t see it or know exactly what’s going on, you don’t oppose it or don’t realize exactly how repulsive it is. That’s why the liberal media censors it.
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