Happy...Happy little bombs...Posted on 06/20/2015 1:30:41 PM PDT by RetiredArmy
The Islamic State's caliphate turns one year old on June 29, and few inside its domains, aside from the true believers who have traveled all over the world to live in the Islamic promised land, are likely to be celebrating. Like all totalitarian states, it has swiftly established for its citizens an environment of oppression and fear, supported (in a new twist) not by a personality cult centered upon the specter of a ubiquitous, all-seeing, all-knowing leader, but by the guilt-manipulation of religious duty. Obey the Islamic State's dictates, no matter how egregious, or else you'll not just be tortured and brutally murdered, but you'll burn in hell besides.
And so those deemed to be ideologically deviant are not labeled "counterrevolutionaries" or "imperialist running dogs" or "capitalist roaders," but "heretics," and are made to carry "repentance cards."
A repentance card is not a get-out-of-jail-free card, however. Everyone in the Islamic State must show signs of his or her repentance and devoutness in Islam every day, or else. Breaking the law in the Islamic State can get you lashed or even beheaded - even for "infractions" such as these, many of which are classic Sharia provisions and thus are found in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and elsewhere as well: <> - Women must cover their entire body except face and hands. (According to some reports, they must cover their faces as well.)
- Women may not leave the house without a male accompanying them.
- Only women may sell clothing to women.
- Women must not wear high heels, but only flat-soled shoes.
- Not only drugs and alcohol, but cigarettes are forbidden. - Those who leave Islam are to be killed.
- Graves and shrines are forbidden, and are to be destroyed.
There are other rules as well - many recalling Woody Allen's Republic of San Marcos. Women may not wear makeup or sit in a chair. Men may not cut their hair, put gel in it, or wear it in a "modern style." (I wonder if taking a bath is forbidden also!!! (My quote)) Men may not wear low-hanging jeans (okay, for that one I'm booking my ticket to Raqqa now(This was author’s quote, not mine)). Just as postwar Vietnamese were forbidden to utter the name "Saigon," in the Islamic State no one may refer to the ruling group as "Daesh," the Arabic acronym for the group's former name, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Those wearing soccer jerseys will receive 80 lashes. And several weeks ago, Islamic State clerics banned pigeon breeding: the sight of the birds' genitals as they flew overhead was un-Islamic.
That's right: this is a state that legislates about pigeon genitals. But no one is laughing, as it commands respect at the point of a gun.
That's also how it inspires Islamic piety. A deserter from the Islamic State has recounted that Islamic State prisons in Raqqa are filled with people were not sufficiently reverent during prayers or who have uttered the name of Allah in a way that Islamic State authorities deemed blasphemous. Their Islamic State captors torture them with sticks and cattle prods, and occasionally even burn prisoners to death.
Sharia forbids music, and so playing music on your car radio can get you ten lashes. Just as in Saudi Arabia, stores must close during the time for Islamic prayers.
And there is no recourse within the Islamic State itself. No political parties or armed groups are allowed other than the Islamic State. The ruling elites exert control over their people so tightly as to arouse the envy of Hitler, Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot: inside the caliphate's capital of Raqqa, in the experience of one man who lived there, "the once colorful, cosmopolitan Syrian provincial capital has been transformed...Now, women covered head to toe in black scurried quickly to markets before rushing home. Families often didn't leave home to avoid any contact with the 'Hisba' committees, the dreaded enforcers of the innumerable ISIS regulations."
Raqqa's central square is now known as Hell Square, as it is where the Islamic State carries out public executions, often leaving the dead bodies on display for days, as a warning to the living.
There is no end in sight. "People hate them," said one man whose family lives in the Islamic State, "but they've despaired, and they don't see anyone supporting them if they rise up. People feel that nobody is with them." In fact, lots of people are with them: Barack Obama, who has vowed to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State (FAT CHANCE!!! (My quote)), but done little to make good on his vow; the Iranians, the Shi'ite regime in Baghdad, the Assad regime in Damascus, the Kurds, and a host of others. None of them, however, have the will or the means so far to deliver the knockout blow to this evil state. And so the citizens of the caliphate are in for, at very least, a second year of misery.
Hey, I have an idea. Let’s import a few hundred thousand or so here. That outta teach us.
I thin Babbalouie my boy that ole Quicksdraw in the White House is already doing that rat now.
They are celebrating their one year birthday. I wonder if 0 sent a card.
No. They probably sent only dirty bombs for their celebration. Probably working hard to have one ready for the good ole USA soon.
The Islamic State's caliphate turns one year old on June 29...Thanks RetiredArmy.
also men have to wear high waters. don’t know why but look around.
Alyas Karmani said teenagers are at risk of being radicalised by terrorist groups because they feel isolated in ‘sexualised’ British society, and resent not having the same freedoms of Western youths to have girlfriends and intimate relationships.
Similar to that they expect to meet innumerable beautiful girls in paradise since all their lives they have been told to proceed directly there as reward for the martyr death. Needless to mention that there will be unlimited erections as well as hymens renewed constantly. Some of the Palestinian suicide bombers wrap their penises into fire-proof aluminum foil to save them for the pleasures to come.
Happy...Happy little bombs...I used to watch Bob Ross paint all the time before he passed away from cancer. The guy did really neat painting and in an easy way. Most of the Hobby Lobby stores still offer his painting classes by people that were taught by him and his way of painting. I tried it, but I am no painter. My wife will not even let me do any painting near the floor, corners, ceiling. I get to use the roller on the big walls and that is all!!! :-)
What is the lure of the caliphate?
Members feel empowered not only by the fighting capabilities of the group but by its ideology, which provides them with tools and zeal to argue back against even the most learned of Muslim clerics, whom Isis labels as distorters of Islam’s authentic message. “When you listen to the clerics of [Isis],” said Mothanna Abdulsattar, an Isis member who joined after he was captured by the group for working with the Free Syrian Army before Isis took over his area, “you are shocked that most of our Islamic societies have deviated from the true religion. They follow a religion that was invented two decades ago, or less.”
This latter statement is particularly relevant in western societies. Extremist ideologues often argue that an Islam that preaches peace and harmony was invented and promoted by the state. They ridicule it as “British Islam” or “American Islam”. Such arguments gain currency in communities that distrust their religious and political leaders, and make individuals living in such communities suspicious and less accepting of moderate views. In both the Middle East and the west, religious leaders have been reluctant to speak loudly and consistently against Isis, often for fear of being labelled as stooges to their governments.
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