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The Mushroom Cloud ISIS Has In Store For Us: A Sobering Warning To The Complacent
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| 09/30/2015
| Matthew Vadum
Posted on 09/30/2015 7:17:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The totalitarian mass murderers of Islamic State are hellbent on acquiring nuclear weapons and using them against their enemies in the West, a reporter who was embedded with the Salafi jihadist fighters in occupied Syria is warning.
German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer, who spent 10 anxious days living in Islamic State-held Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor in Syria with the jihadists, wants the world to know that the terrorist group is deadly serious about unleashing a "nuclear tsunami" on those who oppose its efforts to create an Islamic caliphate.
"This is the largest religious cleansing strategy that has ever been planned in human history," he said.
The West has "no concept of the threat it faces" from Islamic State and "dramatically" underestimates the threat posed by the group, said the former German politician who was allowed to embed with the group because of his high-profile criticism of U.S. involvement in the Middle East.
"They are extremely brutal," according to Todenhöfer. "Not just head-cutting. I'm talking about the strategy of religious cleansing. That's their official philosophy. They are talking about 500 million people who have to die."
He describes his jihadist odyssey in a new book called Inside IS - Ten Days In The Islamic State. At time of writing it wasnt clear if the author plans to release an English-language version. (The German-language book is titled Inside IS - 10 Tage im 'Islamischen Staat'.)
Todenhöfer's disturbing revelations come 20 months after President Obama sat down with David Remnick of the New Yorker and dismissively likened Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL, and Daesh) as a "jayvee," or junior varsity, team. "If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant," Obama said in January last year.
Congenitally in denial about the threat that Muslim expansionism poses to free nations, Obama said last fall that "ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim."
Even now as Islamic State continues racking up horrifying, barbaric atrocities, the Appeaser-in-Chief maintains that Islamic State can be vanquished with tough love and social programs.
At the United Nations yesterday Obama said waging war against such terrorist groups won't accomplish anything.
"Ideologies are not defeated with guns," Obama told UN delegates. "They are defeated by better ideas -- a more attractive and compelling vision."
As someone who spent time with the jihadists, Todenhöfer agrees with Obama that Western military intervention against Islamic State would be pointless.
"I don't see anyone who has a real chance to stop them. Only Arabs can stop [Islamic State]. I came back very pessimistic."
Islamic State fighters are significantly more "dangerous and organized" than people in Western nations assume and "completely sure they will win this fight," the Daily Mail (UK) reports the 75-year-old veteran war correspondent saying.
Islamic State "fighters are much smarter and more dangerous than our leaders believe. In the Islamic State, there is an almost palpable enthusiasm and confidence of victory, which I have not seen in many war zones."
The group uses its gruesome, graphic beheading videos to cow civilian populations into submission before invading an area, he added.
The newspaper account continued:
Mr Todenhöfer went on to say that ISIS have plans for mass genocide, with the aim of eradicating all atheists and religions that are not "people of the book" or who do not subscribe to their particular brand of Islam.
"The IS want to kill... all non-believers and apostates and enslave their women and children. All Shiites, Yazidi, Hindus, atheists and polytheists should be killed," he [wrote separately].
"Hundreds of millions of people are to be eliminated in the course of this religious 'cleansing.'"
"All moderate Muslims who promote democracy, should be killed. Because, from the IS perspective, they promote human laws over the laws of God.
"This also applies to - after a successful conquest - the democratically-minded Muslims in the Western world."
Todenhöfer covered some of the same ground in January when he spoke to Al Jazeera about what he experienced while living with the jihadists.
I always asked them about the value of mercy in Islam, but I didnt see any mercy in their behavior, he said.
Something that I dont understand at all is the enthusiasm in their plan of religious cleansing, planning to kill the non-believers
They also will kill Muslim democrats because they believe that non-ISIL-Muslims put the laws of human beings above the commandments of God.
Todenhöfer was appalled at how willing to kill the jihadists were. They were talking about [killing] hundreds of millions. They were enthusiastic about it, and I just cannot understand that."
According to the Daily Mail, when Todenhöfer arrived in Islamic State-controlled territory, the terrorists took away the mobile phones that he and his son, who worked as his cameraman, had brought with them. He had spent months communicating with the group over Skype before it granted him permission to enter its territory.
As he explained:
Of course I'd seen the terrible, brutal beheading videos and it was of course after seeing this in the last few months that caused me the greatest concern in my negotiations to ensure how I can avoid this. Anyway, I made my will before I left. People there live in shellholes, in barracks, in bombed-out houses. I slept on the floor, if I was lucky on a plastic mattress. I had a suitcase and a backpack, a sleeping bag.
As one might expect, Todenhöfer isn't exactly a fan of the U.S.-led Global War on Terror, which in the eyes of some gives his words extra weight.
As an elected member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 1990, he was the Christian Democratic Union's parliamentary spokesman on disarmament, according to German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW). "In 1980, he paid a visit to Soviet-occupied Afghanistanthe first of what would become many visits to crisis regions. Over time, he became a committed pacifist and critic of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Meanwhile, an American lawmaker warned that President Obama's cavalier approach to U.S. border security and insistence on importing thousands of Syrian refugees will help Islamic State in its quest to terrorize Americans.
I dont think that the United States needs to have an open-door policythis Obama policythat is going to allow ISIS to come into our country, set up bases of operation illegally at the taxpayers expense, U.S. Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) said.
Babin also blamed Obama for the bloody mess in Syria.
I think that his weak, vacillated foreign policy and his decisions and him drawing the red line and then doing nothing after the red line is crossed by [Syrian dictator Bashar al-] Assad has created this entire situation.
Increasing the quota for Syrian refugees beyond Obama's current limit of 10,000 is a terrible and unwise idea, the congressman said. Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, the administration's director of national intelligence, has warned that Islamic State operatives are hiding among the millions of Syrian refugees heading to Europe and the U.S.
And a report from Breitbart News yesterday served as a unsettling reminder of the consequences of President Obama's refusal to secure America's porous border with Mexico:
EDINBURG, Texas One illegal immigrant has been formally charged with capital murder and another is expected to be charged soon in connection with the execution of two men and the burning of the victims corpses in Texas. The two jailed illegal immigrants are said to be members of a fearsome gang called the Tri-City Bombers which has been tied to multiple massacres and high profile murders in the past.
This week, investigators with the Hidalgo County Sheriffs Office arrested 22-year-old Edwin Adrian Salinas for his suspected role in the case. Authorities had initially arrested him on unrelated drug charges, but once in custody, homicide detectives were able to link him to the double murder.
Like illegal aliens, Islamic State terrorists don't use official border crossings.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; jurgentodenhofer; nuclearweapons; terrorism
To: SeekAndFind
‘The West has “no concept of the threat it faces” from Islamic State and “dramatically” underestimates the threat posed by the group, said the former German politician who was allowed to embed with the group because of his high-profile criticism of U.S. involvement in the Middle East.’
One country gets it. They’ve started their jihadi abatement program today.
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:21:09 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Behold the Yebetable. It is something like a vegetable, but with less energy.)
To: SeekAndFind
The reason the Globalist elite is supporting the ISIS/terrorist movement is that ISIS’s goals support those of the global elitists.
Eliminate a large percentage of the population.
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:21:30 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: SeekAndFind
Thanks. Too many folks wrapped up in the kardouchians to care much about any actual threat to this country. I see sean_anthony posted the same article from canadafree press about 34 seconds after you posted this one. Quick work. LOL!
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:22:18 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: SeekAndFind
“Ideologies are not defeated with guns,” Obama told UN delegates. “They are defeated by better ideas — a more attractive and compelling vision.”
That is if you are dealing with straight thinking humans who employ common sense and not with a bunch of inbred killers.
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:26:25 AM PDT
by
saintgermaine
(Is she somehow related)
To: rktman
I think most little folk get it. EU is being over-run as the elite sit in their gated strongholds and figure what's in it for them. ISIS could've-should've been disintegrated last year when they were walking across the desert single file. If Assad falls, there's no good plan to keep ISIS from having a corridor to the Med. The EU-US oppose Assad who protects Christians and other minorities and works to impose what their masters, the Saudi princes, want. Saudi Arabia should not be our ally; the US is reaping what it's sowing.
Last time a maniac got out of control in Europe, Russia saved their asses. If Russia doesn't clean up the mess in the ME for them, again, the hordes can't be stopped from decimating European civilization.
I don't know any "little folk" who don't get all that. It's something in the water the creepy elite drink or the air that they breathe that makes them think they can direct the demise of civilization as we know it to their advantage.
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:35:17 AM PDT
by
grania
To: saintgermaine; SeekAndFind
(from the article) :" Ideologies are not defeated with guns, Obama told UN delegates.
They are defeated by better ideas a more attractive and compelling vision.
Obama thinks that proposing social and economic programs and logic will disuade from mass murder .
That's logical when dealing with logic , but it won't work here.
ISIS is an EMOTIONAL "death cult" that prefers rewards in the next life, in preparation for the Caliphate , and world religious/political domination.
A similar 'death cult' philosophy to WWII Kamikazi warriors of rewards in an afterlife and honor and respect in this life.
You can't deal logically with an emotional 'death cult' !!
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:40:27 AM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
(The GOPe and Karl Rove got Obama elected twice. .. How'd that work out for ya ?)
To: Tennessee Nana; AuntB; TADSLOS; Jane Long; notted; magna carta; Squantos; no-to-illegals; ...
A Breitbart News report is an unsettling reminder of the consequences
of Obama's refusal to secure America's porous border with Mexico: EDINBURG, Texas One illegal immigrant has been formally charged with capital murder and another is expected to be charged soon in connection with the execution of two men and the burning of the victims corpses in Texas. The two jailed illegal immigrants are said to be members of a fearsome gang called the Tri-City Bombers which has been tied to multiple massacres and high profile murders in the past.
This week, investigators with the Hidalgo County Sheriffs Office arrested 22-year-old Edwin Adrian Salinas for his suspected role in the case. Authorities had initially arrested him on unrelated drug charges, but once in custody, homicide detectives were able to link him to the double murder.
Like illegal aliens, Islamic State terrorists don't use official border crossings.
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:40:43 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: SeekAndFind
I would be more concerned about Iran.
I think the Russians are going to make pretty quick
work of ISIS.
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Omuslim will b sitting in his bunker laughing his a$$ off.
He has and still is importing thousands of these savage madmen muzzies.
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:44:26 AM PDT
by
patriot08
(4th geneneration Texam (girl type))
To: Buckeye McFrog
You would be wrong. Russia doesn’t have to defeat ISIS. All Russia needs to do is maintain a small strategic redoubt in Syria and they win.
Oh, snap! They already have that!
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:49:02 AM PDT
by
antidisestablishment
(If Washington was judged with the same standard as Sodom, it would not exist.)
To: SeekAndFind
Remember who ISIS/Islam worships: SATAN.
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posted on
09/30/2015 7:51:54 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: UCANSEE2
The new ISIS motto: Making the world green, 500 million people at a time.
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posted on
09/30/2015 8:08:29 AM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(No tag today.)
To: SeekAndFind
If there is an world nuclear exchange and a breakdown in law and order, there are a number of groups in the US that will be in trouble - hint - it is not white southerners at risk when hunting season opens with no bag limit.
To: SeekAndFind
Todenhöfer was appalled at how willing to kill the jihadists were. They were talking about [killing] hundreds of millions. They were enthusiastic about it, and I just cannot understand that."Todenhöfer is an ideological Leftist. That's why he doesn't understand.
He probably thinks all men are "basically good". He is likely an atheist so God and Satan mean nothing to him. He also has obviously never studied history. Muslims have murdered hundreds of millions and so have the Communists/Nazis so it's not like mass murder hasn't happened before on a grand scale even in very recent history.
Todenhöfer is a blind fool just like the rest of the weak, mewing Left. Their leaders aren't, though. They are perfectly willing to do the same thing as ISIS to forward their ultimate goals.
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posted on
09/30/2015 8:29:57 AM PDT
by
Gritty
(The question is not will Muslim migrants kill Americans but how many will they kill?-D.Greenfield)
To: Gritty; saintgermaine; SeekAndFind
Gritty :" Todenhöfer was appalled at how willing to kill the jihadists were.
They were talking about [killing] hundreds of millions. They were enthusiastic about it, and I just cannot understand that."
Consider the consequences of 'genetic inbreeding', along with a 'cult of death wish', along with being emotionally driven to bring about the Caliphate,
and then you should be logically and intellectually capeable of understanding the forces that Europe , and we , ourslves, are going to be dealing with.
Denial of these issues is more than complacentcy .., it's downright stupid !
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posted on
09/30/2015 8:56:22 AM PDT
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
(The GOPe and Karl Rove got Obama elected twice. .. How'd that work out for ya ?)
To: sneakers
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posted on
09/30/2015 9:27:35 AM PDT
by
sneakers
To: patriot08
Omuslim will b sitting in his bunker laughing his a$$ off.
No. He'll be directing the attacks from the M.E.
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posted on
09/30/2015 9:49:32 AM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Obama thinks that proposing social and economic programs and logic will disuade from mass murder. You might be giving Obama too much credit.
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posted on
09/30/2015 12:12:03 PM PDT
by
the_doc
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