Remember: the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has a doctorate in Islamic studies. Yet somehow in all that study of Islam he didn’t see anything forbidding the mass murder of those considered to be enemies of Islam. Could it be because of Qur’an passages like this? “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth to cause corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment” (5:33).
“Militants post images of mass killing in Iraq,” by Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press, June 15, 2014:
BAGHDAD (AP) — As the Iraqi government bolstered Baghdad’s defenses Sunday, the Islamic militant group that captured two major cities last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show its fighters massacring dozens of captured Iraqi soldiers.
The pictures on a militant website appear to show masked fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, loading the captives onto flatbed trucks before forcing them to lie face-down in a shallow ditch with their arms tied behind their backs. The final images show the bodies of the captives soaked in blood after being shot.
The grisly images could further sharpen sectarian tensions as hundreds of Shiites heed a call from their most revered spiritual leader to take up arms against the Sunni militants who have swept across the north. ISIL has vowed to take the battle to Baghdad and cities further south housing revered Shiite shrines.
While the city of seven million is not in any immediate danger of falling into the hands of the militants, Sunday’s bombings could raise tensions. Food prices in the city have risen, twofold in some cases, because of disruption to transport on the main road heading north from the capital.
The government bolstered defenses around Baghdad Sunday, a day after hundreds of Shiite men paraded through the streets with arms in response to a call by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for Iraqis to defend their country. ISIL has vowed to attack Baghdad but its advance to the south seems to have stalled in recent days. Thousands of Shiites have also volunteered to join the fight against the ISIL, also in response to al-Sistani’s call.
Despite the added security, a string of explosions killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 30 in the city, police and hospital officials said. One car bomb went off in the city center, killing 10 and wounding 21. After nightfall, another explosion hit the area, killing two and wounding five. The third went off near a falafel shop in the city’s sprawling Sadr City district, killing three and wounding seven.
Baghdad has seen an escalation in suicide and car bombings in recent months, mostly targeting Shiite neighborhoods or security forces. The police and hospital officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Armed police, including SWAT teams, were seen over the weekend manning checkpoints in Baghdad, searching vehicles and checking drivers’ documents. Security was particularly tightened on the northern and western approaches of the city, the likely targets of any advance by ISIL fighters on the capital. The city looked gloomy on Sunday, with thin traffic and few shoppers in commercial areas.
At one popular park along the Tigris river, only a fraction of the thousands who usually head there were present on Sunday evening. In the commercial Karada district in central Baghdad, many of the sidewalk hawkers who sell anything from shoes to toys and clothes were absent.
The crisis in Iraq has prompted the United States to order an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf. It also laid out specific ways for Iraq to show it is forging the national unity necessary to gain assistance in its fight against the ISIL and other militants….
Saleem Smith says
“The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”
Damn do those words ever have a horrible ring to them.
Hundreds of thousands of devout Muslims are killing and dying for Islam in an attempt to bring Sharia law to “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”. They are all reading from the Qur’an and Muhammad’s Sunnah and a river blood is flowing through the land. Not that this has anything to do with Islam.
We ex-Muslims know that Islam is no “religion of peace.” Islam is primarily a religion of “injustice, intolerance, hatred, and violence.” The fact is, if we no-Muslims were to say about Muslims what the Qur’an says about us, we would be arrested for hate speech. The Qur’an largely preaches discrimination, death, and imposition of its dogma on everyone. Certainly some Muslims will be offended by such statements, but frankly, so what? Judaism and Christianity, the world’s two other major monotheistic religions, have had to face the harshest of scrutiny and criticism for several hundred years which continues to this day. Islam must not be granted any special privileges or be exempt from such treatment – the implications are of tremendous importance.
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Main_Page
Jay Boo says
Imagine Islam without the political element.
No enemies to hate or fear to justify Islam’s existence
No one to impress with a choreographed prayer display at the mosque
What is left? …
Just a happy peace-loving religion of (Islam)
or nothingness without its façade
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The Qur’an largely preaches discrimination, death, and imposition of its dogma on everyone.
Yes, it’s what Allah laid down as the Cause. Do it for the Cause, you are commanded to do it, because. And for 1,400 yrs they’ve done it without pause, destroying the Infidels and their stupid laws. Islam is a perpetual motion machine: once you get by the obvious fact that it at its core is a criminal evil enterprise, it has now flaws, beCause.
Richie says
The leftist media will downplay this, and will still spew the lie that this has nothing to do with Islam. If the people fight back. Obama will side with the oppressors
Islamisdeath says
Islam is a death cult. They serve a demon who demands rivers of blood flow. Inbred psychopaths all.
An article, by someone last name Fischer, in my local newspaper went on and on about how these guys act like a military and not terrorists and how they have a plan and a goal and have been working on it since 2012. To the extent that the article in the end read like praise to these guys.
The brain dead left are praising stone cold psychopaths!!!!!
Kepha says
Sounds like your reporter Fischer is cut from the same cloth as those who assured us, back in the 1930’s and ’40’s, that Mao Zedong and co. were simply “agrarian reformers”.
Jay Boo says
All those Muslims who ranted and insisted that Osama bin Laden be given a proper Muslim burial because Muslims respect the dead are suddenly surprisingly silent.
No Outrage
No Indignation
What a bunch of conniving hypocrites
eib says
It resembles the Katyn Massacre, and will become as bad or worse if it continues.
Jay Boo says
Off Topic
at Huff Post
Topless women protest inside Swedish mosque video
insightful commentary throughout (no bloodshed just … )
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/01/femen-protest-mosque-sweden-whores_n_3530171.html
Jay Boo says
Note page is a bit slow to load which is usual for Huff Post
Kepha says
While I see the liberal use of mass murder as one more example of Islamic barbarity, and know enough about the religion to find it a horror, I still cannot sympathize with the Femen protesters. For all their yapping about male “oppression”, they sure sell themselves cheaply to exploitation. This also seems to be combined with a desire to be men, and morally rotten ones at that.
I think a few hours in the pillory plus a good paddling would do these Femen types a world of good
17th century:
A young Quaker, with visions embued,
Strode into a church in the nude.
She ranted and shouted
While old Mather pouted
And other men cheerfully viewed.
Jay Boo says
Did you happen take note of the insightful commentary.
It would be easily missed by the distraction of —- , yet they have a point.
While Western media sells itself cheaply to sex exploitation they put a human face (and more) on Islam’s dualistic disgrace. Women in Islam are already being exploited by Islam’s veil.
Much better that men enjoy the view than repress and corrupt what God made with 72 virgin myths and butcher knive honor killing fits.
If we look at Medina’s sordid history and if we are honest we will clearly see how Islam tries
to rationalize its many sins.
Exhibit A: Islam’s RAPE SCARF ( one of the Prophet’s big lies)
The sad relic of the Islamic HEAD SCARF that pretends to symbolize modesty and purity and HONOR.
Muhammad invented this “alibi” not for honor but as an excuse to rationalize rape.
(the RAPE scarf excuse)
All non-Muslim women without head scarfs are by default whores by “Muhammad logic”
and deserve to be raped. Even a Muslim woman walking alone without an escort is called a willful slut.
Should she happen to not be wearing a head scarf she might end up as a disposable “temporary wife.”
Remove a head scarf to rationalize sin. This is a classic example of blaming the victim.
From Pedestal to a Pit.
Godless “pray 5-a-day” males pillage honor in a gleeful RAGE with a “head scarf” alibi excuse.
behaving like unaccountable whores while self-righteously blaming the victim all in the name of Islam.
Jay Boo says
We need to save the pillory plus a good paddling for the fanatic Islamist imams
dumbledoresarmy says
Y’know, I say – I, a Christian matron, aged 50 – good on ’em.
it wasn’t just about spectacle.
They had slogans painted on their bodies – like the women in Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s brilliant short film, “Submission”.
The slogans were ones I could agree with “Free women” and “No Sharia” (1000 times agree with *that* one).
Next time they should also shout “No FGM” and “No Child Rape” and “No Forced Marriages” and “No Honor Murders”, and then again, I’d be 100 percent with them.
They also stated “No Sharia in Egypt and the World” (amen to that!) and “My body is mine, not somebody’s honour”. (Remember: there is a vile and vulgar Arab Muslim proverb, alluded to by ex-Muslim NOnie Darwish, which basically says that a man’s “honor” is between a woman’s legs. That is: until she’s married off, her c**t is not HER virtue but is so to speak “owned” by her father, brothers, etc, who are dishonored if she does anything; and then she’s sold off in a “f**king ceremony” to transfer ownership of the c**t from one lot of male possessors, to another. *That*’s what Islamic “honor” is all about.)
Let’s put it this way: they got those slogans – all of which every jihadwatcher can fully endorse – *into the public gaze*. Have any of us managed as much? And *inside a mosque*, right inside the Enemy’s fortress, to boot!!
Some of the women were of Egyptian and Tunisian origin, so they know *exactly* what they are talking about. And if the Swedish women who went with them were native Swedes, rather than Swedish-passport-holding migrants of middle-eastern background , I salute their guts.
Think about it. What, in the end, does a woman’s breast symbolise? Does it *all about* sex/ lust? Or is it not, more fundamentally…baby food? Does it not signify a fountain of life…the mother’s milk on which most human beings have always been reared? Let’s just think about all those medieval and renaissance paintings of the Madonna giving suck. Some of them show quite a bit of bare bosom.
In the centre of a fortress of evil – in a shrine devoted to Thanatos, to human sacrifice, to Blood and War, rapine, pillage, and mass murder – these women exposed that which represents Life. (And since they seem to have been in their childbearing years, that’s appropriate, too.)
I think that’s an *appropriate* use of shock tactics. When they target churches, they’re being a bit silly. When they target mosques…go for it, gals, fire away.
Two things to reflect upon.
First, in the sharia of Islam, sex-slaves were supposed to be naked from the waist up whether they wanted to be naked or not. The Muslim or Muslim-background women who took part in the protest, would have known that. In effect they did it – went bare from the waist up – but said defiantly, “No one owns me. I am free, not a slave”. Had they been captive sex slaves, not one of the mohammedans in that mosque would have had a problem with their being half naked. Not at all! The offence was not that their breasts were bare but that they were *free* not slaves; that they were rejecting slave status.
Second: let us never forget that had someone like *me* taken part in the protest, in order to register a loud NO to the Sharia of Islam, but had gone along merely with uncovered *hair* and face and a bit of decolletage, and perhaps with arms bare from the elbow down, in perfectly modest western female street clothing, *I too* would be framed, by Muslim thinking, as a “whore”, as a “naked” or “uncovered” woman, being unislamically dressed.
Jaladhi says
Muslims are genocide experts. World history is full of Muslim genocides of non-Muslims starting from murders of 600 ton 800 Jews of Medina! Lets see what does CAIR have to say about the present genocide?
mortimer says
OH, THE MISUNDERSTANDERS OF ISLAM!!!
How can a Ph.D. misunderstand Islam as a terrorist organization?
David Cameron ‘knows’ more than a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies.
What a genius Cameron is! No study of Islam and he is an expert!
Anyone who disagrees with Cameron is wrong…because he says so.
Charli Main says
Ah !!! perhaps this is Cameron, Blair, Clegg and Miliband´s secret master plan to protect Britain´s non Muslim communities.
Import millions of Muslims and turn Britain into an Islamic State under the aegis of Sharia. That way all Britain´s non Muslims can live safely and in peace as Dhimmis and water carriers.
You have to hand it to Cameron &Co. The welfare of Britain´s non Muslims always close to their hearts.
Wellington says
Hmmm. Sunnis killing Shiites. Shiites killing Sunnis.
Memo to Condi Rice: They haven’t gotten over it yet.
miriam rove says
they have been killing each other the day their pedophile prophet died.m
jewog says
This whole global upwelling of jihadism is a direct result of petrodollar funding. The reactionaries in the Gulf states and Iran have put the trillions from their oil windfall to work in funding militias, mosques and madrassas. It was the formation of OPEC in the early 1970s that started the ball rolling, and now here it comes crashing down on everyone’s heads.
This is the third wave of Islamic expansion: the seventh century, the Ottoman advance into Europe, and now this, a sort of OPEC barbarian horde.
Energy independence is the gentleman’s way to stem it, but then there’s always a military seizure of the oil fields – the effective option.
Up until now, seizing the oil fields has not been seriously considered, but that may change if groups like ISIS take control of them. Even the liberals may see the insanity of buying oil from those savages, though if Iran’s nuclear program hasn’t done the trick, there’s still cause for pessimism.
Ultimately, this third Islamic expansion will fail because it frightens and alienates too many people. I hope.
eib says
+1
Jaladhi says
Unfortunately, it is still not frightening majority of the world – they still see Muslims and Islam as peaceful through their PC eyes!!
G179 says
Each victim is a blood stain on the image of Islam. So why are 1.5 billion muslims silent about this?
Jaladhi says
Indeed!!! This is expected from lying hypocrites and nothing less. They are all violent genocidal maniacs. While they deceitfully proclaim to be peaceful and our PC media and leaders blindly accept it, the fact s are obvious as being played out in Iraq now which is simply a repetition of what they have done 1400 years back in Karbala and later throughout the world.
What will it take for non-Muslims to see the real danger of having Muslims in their countries? They still gleefully allowing Muslims to invade their countries peacefully(immigration) and they or their grand children will reap the fruits of this folly later!!
Jaladhi says
Oh I missed to say that Muslims don’t consider this as as a stain on them, they only accept this as blood offering to that demon allah!!
See not single Muslim country as said anything against ISIS( just like they never denounce al Qaeda). What a demonic bunch – they should all be sent to Mars!!
Charli Main says
In a chilling way, it makes something very clear.
No point in surrendering because the ISIS vermin (armed and trained by Obama &Co ) are going to kill you anyway.
So, you might as well go down fighting, killing as many of the bast+rds as you can, before they get you.
Jay Boo says
Obama promises to make it easier for Muslims to fulfill zakat.
Who was stopping Muslins from charitable giving (the FBI?)
1/8 of charitable giving is deemed for military use by Muslim law.
Obama & zakat Minute Mark 3:40
Jaladhi says
Zakat is another name to contribute to jihad!! An dour administration is going to make it easier for Muslims to do that!!Boy, are they finally happy???
Charli Main says
Muslims that make financial and moral contributions to Jihad, are as much active Jihadists, as the Muslims pulling the trigger on a gun or blowing up women and children on buses and trains.
duh_swami says
If you expect savages to not act like savages, you are asking too much…The true face of Islam is exposed. The veil lifted…
Semeru says
Militants post images of mass killing in Iraq,
http://justpaste.it/fusg
john spielman says
i think Obama should be airdropped onto the front line of the battle and let him talk it out with both sides
john spielman says
that way we’ll know whether Obama’s sympathies are with Sunni or Shia (after all he did bow to the king of Saudi Arabia)
Kepha says
Maybe he could buy beers for both sides.
Transmaster says
Yes it is nasty to watch but you know that if the shoe was on the other foot the Shi’a would be just as eager to shoot down the Sunni’s if they where in the trench. Barbarian killing barbarians I don’t have a problem with that.
Jay Boo says
If a Muslim leaves Islam Allah will be furious and feel insecure.
Though Muslims are many, each one is truly alone.
If a Muslim becomes an apostate Allah becomes enraged.
Allah wants Muslims to always remain in their cage.
Such is the puny spiteful, petty, Muhammad created beast.
Islam’s god is not greatest but surely the least.
Jay Boo says
Every Muslim is a little ‘Allah’
It’s no wonder they love death.
exsgtbrown says
Muslim vs Muslim civil war is brewing because peace is Un-Islamic…
Veracious_one says
Muslims continue to show the world the truth about Islam, the religion of death.
Jaladhi says
And yet the world refuses to see real Islam and Muslims, thanks to lying propaganda by like of C AIR and our own leaders and moronic media( all lefty press, NYTimes, etc!!!
Daner says
We need to create a Christian fighting force and defend the global citizens against this Islamic monstrosity! This is appalling!
A group needs to be formed that can recruit defenders of the West, to go into hotspots and protect the oppressed. Much like the Islamists do. I feel so bad for these poor iraqis! And the irony is that, the majority of westerner’s opposed the Iraq war in 2003, yet they went in under false pretext and flimsy if not manufactured evidence. (fact), NOW, these poor iraqis are being massecered and colonized yet Obama acts like it’s not worth take action.
I’d say out of the 3 Iraq wars, this one NEEDS intervention, unlike the 2nd one. But then again, this new Iraq war (3.0) is a direct result of Iraq 2.0 and the negligence of Obama in abandoning Iraq. He looks so ridiculous a couple months ago declaring Iraq free and independent. BOOM, that completly backfired. And now, even Democrats are getting fed up with Barack!
dumbledoresarmy says
I would support the use of such a force *only* for rescuing the oppressed and trapped *non-Muslims* and getting them out to safety.
The Christians in Syria and Iraq are hopelessly outnumbered and there isn’t really anywhere that they could – emulating the Jews of Israel – establish an economically viable and militarily defensible state.
So the only real option – and if the USA *and* Russia (majority-nominally-Christian) and the nations of western and central Europe had a gram of sense, they would cooperate to do it – to save them is to get them out so they can reinforce the numbers of non-Muslims *elsewhere*. Once they are UN-dhimmi’d (Dr Mark Durie has written perhaps the definitive work on what the dhimma does to people, and has *also* written a handy booklet intended to be used to de-dhimmi Christians) then they would be an asset to anywhere that took them in. here in Australia I’d happily take the lot of them…and make room by cutting all *Muslim* immigration to zero.
What’s needed, desperately, right now is a free-world equivalent of what Israel did for the Jews of Ethiopia, of Yemen, and of ..IRAQ.
An Operation Exodus, an Operation Magic Carpet. I think Putin would *faint* dead away if the US rang up and said, Hey, mate, about all those poor persecuted Christians in Syria and Iraq: how many troopships and how many planes do you think we and you together could scrape up, to get them outta there and off to someplace safe?
Establish a secured and guarded “gateway” to which escape corridors are created; get folks like Barnabas Fund and some of the other bodies that have been working with these communities for decades, and know them through and through, to handle the processing, so as to weed out any mohammedan wolves trying to sneak in in sheep’s clothing; and then…pack them onto the boats and planes and bring them out. Once they’re all out…leave, slamming and locking the door shut behind us.