Posted on 02/17/2015 11:53:06 AM PST by NYer
Graeme Wood writes the best analysis and description of the horror of ISIS here at The Atlantic. He goes into detail about the roots of ISIS, its relationship to mainstream Islam and the ambitions of the Caliphate. He explains how ISIS combines not only a horribly literalistic interpretation of the Koran, but also how it is interlaced with radical Muslim apocalyptic visions.
He sums up the whole article pretty well with this paragraph
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.
In his extensive article Wood interviews ISIS representatives in Britain and Australia and reports his findings from research and meetings with the world’s experts.
What emerges is a truly frightening scenario. It seems first of all, that the Western powers have taken a very long time to understand the threat and an even longer time to figure out what to do about it.
What we’re facing is a kind of religious fanaticism on a grand scale that might seem small fry, but which has global ambitions not just of murder, mayhem and genocide but of total destruction.
In other words, they are looking forward to the end of the world and would pull the trigger themselves if they could.
Since their weapon of choice for terror is FIRE, then let them REAP what they have sewn.
They just want to work ... where’s your empathy?
/sarcasm
just drop a a decent bomb on the area that turns the people to vapor and the infrastructure is left intact. deal with them quick and swiftly now, not later on at the doorstep of the people in America.
And to understand properly read the Hadiths and Sunnahs which chronicle the life and sayings of Mo, these are Talibari, Muslim, Isaq and Bukhari.
No.
Exactly, the map is misleading because the areas in between the spiderweb are uninhabited deserts. For all intents and purposes, they have control over about 2 1/2 countries at this point.
Apparently, they are only 350 miles away from US troops. Another aspect of this, not being discussed in the msm, is the nuclear build up in Iran. If ISIS gets their hands on that, we're all doomed.
I don’t care about understanding them. Destroy them.
No, I do not want to *understand* ISIS.
It’s enough for me to know that they want to kill us and that I don’t want them to.
Therefore they need to be dealt with in a way that they understand, which means pounding them into oblivion so that they CANNOT come back for another try.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Why not have A-10s patrolling the highways then?
There is no need to analyze ISIS. One need only read the Koran.
employ them as sidewalk chalk outline models.
or bacon missle test drones.
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