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#2Glorifying ISIS fighters. Cool. Kill all these pig fuckers.
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#3I find it amazing the danger that these journalists in Mosul are putting themselves in just to get half a dozen photos, or a couple of minutes of video footage, or a few paragraphs.
I was following Quentin Sommerville as he was livetweeting the battle for Mosul a couple of months ago, and it was amazing to see him there right on the front line getting shot at.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who put themselves in harm's way for the good of the people while unarmed. Whether it's observers, journalists, or medics/doctors. It's a thankless task.
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#4I find it amazing the danger that these journalists in Mosul are putting themselves in just to get half a dozen photos, or a couple of minutes of video footage, or a few paragraphs. I was following Quentin Sommerville as he was livetweeting the battle for Mosul a couple of months ago, and it was amazing to see him there right on the front line getting shot at. I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who put…
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#5That was a gripping read. I was going to say that it might shed some light into the mental processes that these boys go through before they are indoctrinated into IS, but I think that is already quite well a well known and researched subject, so I will prevail from exploring it further here.
What saddens me is that I regularly see similar snippets of declared fervent worshippers of a particular deity calling for outright murder, persecution and mass extermination of entire groups of people. Only it isn't written on slips of paper in a bunker in Mosul, but on the Twitter threads of supporters a certain recently elected Western politician.
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#6That was a gripping read. I was going to say that it might shed some light into the mental processes that these boys go through before they are indoctrinated into IS, but I think that is already quite well a well known and researched subject, so I will prevail from exploring it further here. What saddens me is that I regularly see similar snippets of declared fervent worshippers of a particular deity calling for outr…
> What saddens me is that I regularly see similar snippets of declared fervent worshippers of a particular deity calling for outright murder, persecution and mass extermination of entire groups of people.
My family is from a country (Bangladesh) that has, like many others, slid backwards in the last 40 years thanks to the same fundamentalism that drives ISIS. When my family and I lived there, Bangladesh was poor, but there were no violent attacks on secularists and atheists, women walked freely in the streets with their heads uncovered, etc. That's all changed. Meanwhile, here in the U.S., Trump is President, but the country is more or less the same as its always been (notwithstanding the bluster of some of his supporters on the Internet). So, frankly, your casual drawing of false equivalences and "whataboutism" is not well taken.
I strongly recommend that "whatabouters" watch this video from the Egyptian President in the 1960s and then read about what happened in the country subsequently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4RK8bj2W0. This is a thing that is happening to hundreds of millions of people all over the world, and bringing up Trump in the same breath is a disservice to all those who continue to fight against this force. Especially since, for the last several decades, that force has been winning.
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#7That was a gripping read. I was going to say that it might shed some light into the mental processes that these boys go through before they are indoctrinated into IS, but I think that is already quite well a well known and researched subject, so I will prevail from exploring it further here. What saddens me is that I regularly see similar snippets of declared fervent worshippers of a particular deity calling for outr…
You're making things up. You're not writing clearly about it and need to perform some more research. What persecution or mass extermination of which groups of people for example are you talking about?
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#8That was a gripping read. I was going to say that it might shed some light into the mental processes that these boys go through before they are indoctrinated into IS, but I think that is already quite well a well known and researched subject, so I will prevail from exploring it further here. What saddens me is that I regularly see similar snippets of declared fervent worshippers of a particular deity calling for outr…
What saddens me is that I regularly see similar snippets of declared fervent worshippers of a particular deity calling for outright murder, persecution and mass extermination of entire groups of people.
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#9That was a gripping read. I was going to say that it might shed some light into the mental processes that these boys go through before they are indoctrinated into IS, but I think that is already quite well a well known and researched subject, so I will prevail from exploring it further here. What saddens me is that I regularly see similar snippets of declared fervent worshippers of a particular deity calling for outr…
Sorry, not buying it. You're drawing parallels between two wildly different demographics for cheap political point scoring, I find it rather distasteful given the subject matter. What similarities exist are tenuous and coincidental, and serve more to confuse any proper analysis than provide insight.
Can you convince me that isn't the case? Over and above vague descriptions of some tweets you read that you didn't like?
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#10I find it amazing the danger that these journalists in Mosul are putting themselves in just to get half a dozen photos, or a couple of minutes of video footage, or a few paragraphs. I was following Quentin Sommerville as he was livetweeting the battle for Mosul a couple of months ago, and it was amazing to see him there right on the front line getting shot at. I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who put…
This was a stunning display of bravery.
I just wonder what badass admins are keeping the internet connection up in such situations.