Aseel al-Nujaifi, governor of Nineveh province in Iraq, said: “These terrorists are degrading Islamic religion. Muslim clerics should bear their responsibility to show the public the reality of this terrorist group, demonstrating how it is diametrically opposed to the correct, tolerant teachings of the Islamic religion.”
Unfortunately, however, they’re acting in full accord with Islamic law. Here is a salient passage on this issue from a Shafi’i manual of Islamic law:
When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner’s death, slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself in exchange for money or for a Muslim captive held by the enemy. (Umdat al-Salik o9.14)
A revered Islamic jurist, Al-Mawardi, agrees with Umdat al-Salik:
As for the captives, the amir has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first, to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale or manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. (Al-Ahkam As-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance), 4.5)
“ISIS militants execute 600 Yezidis northern Iraq,” ARA News, May 2, 2015:
Erbil, Kurdistan Region – On Friday the so-called Sharia Court of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) reportedly executed 600 hostages from the Yezidi community of Shingal (Sinjar) in the Talafar district in northern Iraq.
The group piled the bodies into the well of Alo Antar on al-Ayyadiya highway, local sources reported.
Shahin Shingali, a fighter in the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, stated to ARA News that since Friday the IS radicals transferred nearly 700 Yezidi hostages to Talafar.
“Without a direct intervention by the international community, Iraq will be witnessing more genocides against innocent people at the hands of the IS terrorists,” Shingali said.
Aseel al-Nujaifi, governor of Nineveh province in Iraq, confirmed on Friday that the IS terrorists executed hundreds of Yezidi captives.
“A new crime was committed by Daesh (Islamic State) against our Yezidi people on Friday,” al-Nujaifi said in a statement.
“IS gangs executed hundreds of innocent Yezidi prisoners.”
“These terrorists are degrading Islamic religion. Muslim clerics should bear their responsibility to show the public the reality of this terrorist group, demonstrating how it is diametrically opposed to the correct, tolerant teachings of the Islamic religion,” al-Nujaifi added….
They will do that. They will show the public all about that. They won’t, however, show the jihadis.
Richard C Brown says
“end Human bankruptcy” an idea whose time has come .
Do U think these Slaughters and Murders are being viewed on Satellite TV by the US State Department ?
Linde Barrera says
I feel sad when I read that innocent people, regardless of their religion, are killed, without the means to defend themselves, by delusional, Satanicallly inspired individuals who think they have the right to kill in God’s name. Come now, Lord Jesus.
Yazidi man says
hi everyone.
we lived in peace until America came and destroyed the saddam husein government.
Iraqi crhstians also lived in peace because of saddam, teir number 1.5 million, now
150,000 left, rest become refugees or dead. dead yazidis close to 2000, missing young women
over 3000.
Linde Barrera says
To Yazidi Man- What was the reason that you heard the USA went after Sadam Hussein?
Yazidi man says
what I know is USA said saddam had weapons and at the end they cannot find any weapons of saddam. in saddam times, he was controlling everybody, every thing and people were afraid of him after saddam, become everything chaos, no authority and mass killing go on until today. it was good times saddam times, now chaos.
Linde Barrera says
To Yazidi Man- I heard that Sadam Hussein had a death warrant out for President George HW Bush and his son, then President George W Bush wanted to get Sadam first. No kidding, no lie, this is what I heard.
Ursula says
Yazidi Man: Yes, I know you speak the truth. This is what I have been telling people, that the USA is responsible for all the horrible things that ISIS is doing. In fact, the USA not only destroyed all the governments who actually made it possible for Christians and Yazidis to live in relative peace in Iraq, Syria, Libya etc., but TRAINED and ARMED the so-called rebels in Syria (most of whom weren’t even Syrians), who then turned into ISIS.
It is very obvious that Obama is one the side of the Muslim murderers, and against the Christians and Yazidis. He and his government are evil!
Yazidi man says
Obama, Bush all same. Saddam times very peaceful no ethnic genocide or religion genocide.
pineapple says
IS was going to emerge sooner or later. The actions of the US government, just sped up the inevitable process, which was caused ENTIRELY by Islam and the oil money.
William says
I wonder if George W Bush lose any sleep at nights over the catastrophe that he had put in motion, a sequence of events that continue to escalate with the passage of time? Most likely not. It is rare that a politician exhibit self-reflection or harbor self-doubt.
Mac-101 says
I, in no way, am a BUSH supporter. However, Obola has magnified by 10 the mistakes/intentional policies of Bush to destabilize the ME.
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Why aren’t ALL returnin members/fighters of IS bein held for crimes against humanity and dealt with as the Einsaltztroppen(SP) of the NAZI SS after WWII, or as they were found in Eastern Europe as the front moved westwards?
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Instead they are bein MONITORED? Traitors run ALL our Western Democracies!
Jay Airahs says
MUHAMMAD set this catastrophe in motion.
Put the blame where it rightly belongs.
Gart says
Yazidi man, the best you might say is that by the time Bush Jr invaded Iraq (on spurious grounds) Saddam was not killing at the high levels previously known. He’d toned down his genocide and seemed content with just the basics, killing random Iraq’s and anyone accused of betrayal. You could also say that the failure of Western policy in Iraq was in the first gulf war with Saddam. Perhaps if they’d removed him from power, backed the trade unions and oppositionist Iraq’s (that they had been encouraging) it might have turned out better. The west bloodied his nose, and left him in power to fight another mother of all battles, this time not as the nationalist, but a fully fledged defender of Islam!
Peggy says
Ridiculous. After Saddam is when the worst killings began.
While Saddam was in power Christians and Yazidis were safe.
You swallowed too much propaganda.
So the west went in there to stop the killings. What is the west doing now to stop even more and more brutal killings?
Buraq says
@ Yazidi man
Assuming you really are a Yazidi, let me explain it this way. When America and her allies got rid of Saddam Hussein, they did not get rid of Islam. It’s Islam’s Qur’anic agenda to kill and subjugate everyone who is not a Muslim.
That is why your people and Christians, as well as Muslims who are not Muslim enough, are being murdered every day. Islam is the problem. And has been for 1,400 years.
Yazidi man says
Saddam time or before Saddam time, no religion genocide in Iraq.
Yazidis and Chiristians live peacfuly, the main problem come after Saddam fell down, the same in Libiya and Syria and Yemen. Arab people only respect dictetor or affriad of dictator. no dictator, chaos is coming and muslim terrorists get benefit by chaos. with dictator no muslim terrorists or chaos because everybody affiraid of dictator and police.
Lynn says
“It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose it’s law on all nations and to extend it’s power to the entire planet.” Hasan Al-Bnana Founder muslim brotherhood
Peggy says
Saddam and other dictators were the only people capable of keeping Islam in check in those countries. Since there is no way to get rid of Islam keeping the dictators in place was the only salvation for non Muslims.
So blame the west for this mess. The dictators were doing all they could to stop the slaughter so why get rid of them?
Yes, the west is guilty for the mess.
Peggy says
Well since they couldn’t get rid of Islam why did they get rid of the only people (dictators) who kept it in some check?
You can’t argue that it’s a lot worse now for Christians and Yazidis than it was under the dictators?
Jack Diamond says
Regardless of America’s role in “liberating” Islam to run wild, it is Islam that is committing genocide, not America. Yazidis are being set upon, told to convert or die, captives slaughtered, women enslaved, for reasons of Islam starting with Qur’an 9:5 the Verse of the Sword and sharia law. Christians are being made war upon– and given a third choice (if they are “lucky”) to live as dhimmis and pay the extortion tax– or just killed (it’s not like there are any consequences for just killing them), see Qur’an 9:29… The Muslims don’t evade responsibility for their crimes just because no one is keeping the lid on them.
We know, we know (those of us informed about Islam) the “secular” tyrants are better than the fulI-Islamic demons….As always in the Arab/Muslim sphere it is a question of the least bad of only bad alternatives.
Jay Airahs says
Exactly correct
Muslims should be held accountable for behaving like Muslims.
katarzyna says
Saddam was like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He was responsible for al-Anfal Campaign also known as the Kurdish Genocide(how dare you say that under Saddam there was no genocide???). Al-Anfal is the eighth chapter of the Quran.
Saddam had WMD. Many people(including former Iraqi general) claimed that Saddam moved his weapon to Syria while the international community was discussing the rationale for attacking Iraq. Some alleged Russia helped Hussein to destroy, hide, or transfer his chemical weapons prior to the American invasion.
The big mistake was to withdraw from Iraq.
And as some people have already said Americans did not write the Noble Koran.
Phil says
Simplistic rubbish, mate. Saddam Hussein al-Tigriti and his vicious Ba’athist thugs waged a campaign of genocide against the Kurds. Does anyone remember the Anfal Campaign? Western Historians claim between 50,000-100,000 harmless Kurdish villagers were exterminated – the Kurds claim over 120,000 victims.
Peace? As in a graveyard. (And let’s ignore the many Ottoman campaigns against the Yazidis in the 19th and 18th Centuries….)
I’m sorry but this is a crude piece of Taqqiyah.
Yes, Western intervention was ill-advised – but the vastly overwhelming majority of deaths are muslim-incited, muslim-committed violence. What makes you think the Yazidis would have survived untouched under any Sunni or Shi’ite regime? The Baha’i have discovered what muslim tolerance is like in Iran…and their doctrines are nowhere near as offensive to devout mujaheddin as belief in Melek Taus.
Davegreybeard says
@Linde Barrera
“I feel sad when I read that innocent people, regardless of their religion, are killed, without the means to defend themselves, by delusional, Satanicallly inspired individuals who think they have the right to kill in God’s name.”
I suppose there is a component of sadness in what I feel, Linde.
Mostly, I feel rage.
Linde Barrera says
To Davegreybeard- Yes, I feel rage too because it is so unjust and unfair. And people comment on this site that what ISIS and Boko Harem are doing “is not the real Islam”. Yet I don’t see any Muslims out protesting. As a teacher, I signed petitions, went to rallies and protest marches and met with different people when something was grossly unfair or unjust. How come we don’t see any Muslims doing activities like that to “take back” their so- called “Religion of Peace” from the Muslim terrorists?
Jack Diamond says
Muslims don’t side with the kaffir against fellow Muslims and protest them. They only protest the kaffir.
Champ says
“These terrorists are degrading Islamic religion. Muslim clerics should bear their responsibility to show the public the reality of this terrorist group, demonstrating how it is diametrically opposed to the correct, tolerant teachings of the Islamic religion.”
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If only that were true, but of course it is NOT …
IS *is* islam and they follow the unholy quran.
wildjew says
Something I have wondered about this verse dealing with captives. From time to time we hear the captive converts to Islam yet ISIS puts him to death anyway. The verse goes on to say: “If the prisoner becomes a Muslim (O: before the Calif chooses any of the four alternatives) then he may not be killed and one or the other three alternatives is chosen.”
Maybe ISIS argues he became a Muslim after the Calif chose death.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
How can a Sharia Court “murder” anybody? These are jurists, so when they order somebody put to death they are not murdering, they are just meting out punishment according to the law. This is like the 55 million unborn babies in America who were put to death, they were not murdered, they were terminated out of lawful respect for the constitutional right to privacy of the women who had the orgasmic fun sex to get themselves pregnant in the first place.
We’ve got a lynch mob loose in Baltimore rat now, and they ain’t looking to murder anybody either. They just want justice. If somebody has to die to avenge the dead drug dealer’s snapped spinal cord, well so be it.
celtic warriarcanada says
You would think with all that shoulder Shrugging that President Obama would have A BUFFER UPPER BACK AND SHOULDERS! But as all of us fitness freaks know Shoulder Shruggs only benefit if done PROPERLY; but , they are hard to do Correctly if you are SPINELESS AND HAVE NO BACKBONE ! So shrugg off this atrocity also and remember The great First American Black President Whose Legacy Includes Racial Riots and tensions As well as the Aiding And Abetting Genecidal Rapists AND Pedophiles . Will anyone remember the thousands of Yesides and Christians ! And the failure of Not JUST America But all of the Western Nations, Who are to cowardly to DO What Our ForeFathers would have done in a moment .God Bless All Our Troops And all the Western Volunteers Who are Risking their lives Fighting a war which western Politicians will not permit them to win .
Walter Sieruk says
This so called “peaceful religion” has in its Koran many teaching that instruct violence and killing. As in ,for example 9:5, 111. 47:4. Therefore the Muslim murderous thugs of ISIS are indeed practicing real Islam. Likewise, other dangerous and deadly jihad groups, as al Qaeda ,Boko, Haram, Hamas,Hezbollah, those members engage in brutal deadly violence that is based in the Koran. Of course the Koran is the foundation of Islam. Therefore, it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then the fruit of that tree are the many cruel and deadly jihad entities as those just mentioned. Thus it’s very fitting the site the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus which may ,very well, apply to this subject. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.” A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when he said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 716,17,18,20. [K.J.V.] In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 3:16,17,36. 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 5:13,20.
Jay Airahs says
Hello … NPR/BBC
I would criticize these Muslims but NPR/BBC might use it against me as an excuse to cover up their negligence in reporting on this story properly by doing an in depth analysis of my Islamophobic reaction to these Muslims. This would give the illusion of an in depth report while avoiding any criticism of Islam.
Those folks at NPR / BBC are so insidiously clever.
Fritz Kohlhaas says
Carpet bomb the savages! Show them no mercy!
LSWCHP says
This is a bummer. But these people need to fight, rather than passively allowing themselves to be slaughtered like sheep. If you aren’t a Muslim then you know these monsters are going to kill you and yours anyway because their vile doctrine demands it. There’s been enough proof of that over the past year.
Use Muslim tactics…run them down, stab them, hit them with sticks or rocks, throw them from high places. But fight, dammit.
Peggy says
They can’t fight with rocks and sticks while IS has sophisticated weapons courtesy of the west.
The west now owes it to the people to fix the mess they created.
Billy Battle says
The worst thing that that has ever happened to middle eastern people is Islam.
Peggy says
pineapple says
May 2, 2015 at 1:13 pm
IS was going to emerge sooner or later. The actions of the US government, just sped up the inevitable process, which was caused ENTIRELY by Islam and the oil money.
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You still don’t get it do you? The actions of the US government didn’t speed anything up because there was nothing to speed up. Yes, i know that there were always extremists there but the “dictators” kept these radicals in check. There was no other way to rule these countries because the people were not ready for democracy. By overthrowing these dictators and financing and training the radical element the US has created this whole mess and now the US owes it to the people of ME to FIX IT.
Rubbish like 9/11 was the reason for US to go after Iraq was so insulting to our intelligence. Also WMDs or Saddam wanted to kill George Bush etc. How can people be so stupid and actually believe that. How can Saddam get to the president of USA?
NO, this dismantling of the ME was done on purpose. The US thought that the could control the savages but clearly they were mistaken. They have a duty to fix the mess now.
While Saddam and the other “dictators” were in power Christians and other non Muslims were somewhat safe. They were never thought of as equal but they were safe.
So much blood on the hands on the country of the brave.
Jay Airahs says
You still don’t get it do you?
MUHAMMAD is to blame for Islam’s pig bath of shame.
All Muslims know that Muhammad was a man lacking of any honor.
They kill in an effort to hide this fact of Islam’s disgrace,
Peggy says
Yes I know that. I know that Islam is the Cancer. How many times do I have to repeat myself here. ISLAM IS THE CANCER, yes I know that. I know that Islam is evil and Serves Satan. Ok, you satisfied now?
Please do yourself a favour and actually read properly what I wrote.
I said that Saddam and the other dictators were keeping Islam in check somewhat so to get rid of them was really, really stupid. Those savages can’t deal with democracy and they need dictatorship and those dictators were what saved a lot of Christians and Yazidis from slaughter.
The west has a lot of blood on their hands for training and financing radical Islamists in that region. If the US had not gone in there and got rid of dictators the radical elements would not have a chance to get the upper hand.
So yes Islam is evil and Muslims and doing the killing, but the west has provided the means.
I really hope that you read this and actually understand.
Maria says
well said Peggy we all know Islam is evil but the problem is instead of the west admitting it and stopping it they are enabling it to flourish like a fungus by Supporting jihad groups like the FSA who are linked to ISIS under sadam there was no suicide bombings or Christians and Yazidis being massacred on such a large scale under Sadam Bush lied about sadam having WMDs Bush lied to that Sadam was linked to 911 it was Saudi that was linked to 911 so why didn’t Bush bomb Saudi? every time its mentioned that the West is supporting those scum jihadist people on here get all defensive it sickens me how the west is allowing and helping the destruction of the ancient citys and Genocide of Christians and Yazidis those ancient Citys where the cradle of all of civilisation in a way this is trying to send us a message destroying the beginning of civilisation they will also destroy the end
duh_swami says
Saddam lost the 1st gulf war…If I am in a fight, and knock the opponent down, and he says ‘I give up’, so I let him up, and he swings on me and continues hostilities, the fight will continue. The loser is supposed to act like a loser, end hostilities, and do as the winner instructs him…Saddam did neither…He continued hostilities and refused to obey orders…So, the war resumes.
That is the way of war and always has been…That’s the military justification for invasion…The political reasons are not fully known Bush 2 biggest mistake was not in taking Saddam out, but sticking around trying to bring freedom and democracy to people who don’t really want it. Bush should have won the war when he won it, and got out…
duh_swami says
These terrorists are degrading Islamic religion.
Degrading is the wrong word. Nothing of Islam is getting degraded…The right word is ‘refined’…honed to it’s sharpest edge. ISIS is a Wahhabi wet dream. You can’t degrade perfection, but you can sharpen it’s blade…The purpose of the magical sword is to cut away the unwanted…In the case of Islam, that is kufr…
Jay Airahs says
These terrorists are REVEALING Islamic false religion.
Islam is trying to put on a good face to hide that it is rotting inside.
The Muslim world is tearing itself apart and has no true foundation to stand upon.
The slimy surface of Muhammad has been revealed and there is no going back.
Jay Airahs says
Muhammad is a 1400 year old snot and Muslims will eventually be forced to blow their noses to be free of Muhammad.
Peggy says
We can only hope and pray that it will happen but how do you convince 1.5 billion people to ditch Islam?
What needs to happen is for the west now to put in dictators as rules there again and make sure they keep them in check or they will be gone.
pongidae rex says
This is Genocide. Where is the UN?
Lioness says
Or the media? Not a word. It’s only when Israel injures a jihadi Palestinian that the world erupts in protest. 600 Yezidis murdered by muslims does not evoke any emotion in the west. Obama is just fine with this.
Peggy says
That’s because in the west some lives are worth more than others and sadly the west has chosen to value Muslim lives more.
Our corrupt media also has a lot of blood on their hands for feeding us BS. We need the truth. We the people who come to this site and Pamela’s site know the truth already but the vast majority don’t because they only read the papers or watch their 6 o’clock news and think they know it all.
The way to get approval of any population is to feed them BS. They won’t mind when we back the evil side because after a steady diet of propaganda they are convinced that black is actually white.
Lesley says
The USA did create a power vacuum which the Islamic State arose to fill, it is true. I can see that this created an opportunity for the monstrous caliphate to do the evil it does.
That being said, in the absence of Islam, the people of the region would have had a real chance to form democratic systems of government, and live in peace. Saddam Hussein was a bad guy– he was also bad enough to out-crazy the Islamists in the area. Without such a bad guy, the Islamists have taken over.
The problem with the US’s actions is that we have bought the myth of the ‘moderate Muslims’. There may be Muslims who are picking and choosing which aspects of their ideology that they will follow, but in truth there is no moderate Islam.
Islam created the Islamic State, not the USA. The root of the problem is in the basic teachings of Islam, and the problem has grown because of the West misunderstanding Islam’s fundamental nature. Islam has been beheading and enslaving people since it’s inception 1,400 years ago.
@Yazidi guy; My heart is heavy with the toll that Islamists have taken on your community. Rest assured that the good people in the West will stand with you at some point to eradicate Islamists once and for all. We are slow to come to judgment because of our traditions of tolerance, but I have every confidence that your countrymen will not have died in vain when all is said and done. Unfortunately, I foresee that the violent and conquering nature of Islam will force us to stand together and fight. We will get through the horrors of today (and the coming horrors), and our world will come out stronger and freer. You have my deepest sympathies.
sidney penny says
“Muslim clerics should bear their responsibility to show the public the reality of this terrorist group, demonstrating how it is diametrically opposed to the correct, tolerant teachings of the Islamic religion.”
Is that not what you are asking the Imams to do as well?
Edward says
Peggy says May 3, 2015 at 4:06 am
“So the west went in there to stop the killings. What is the west doing now to stop even more and more brutal killings?”
Nothing —zilch, zip, nada! Nothing before November 8, 2016, unless the present POTUS’ administration is dissolved before that date. The Liberals are presently seeing what they professed ….uncompassionate evil’s proxy’s that they are. The Liberal poster child is the leader of the pack! BTW, affirmed by considering by what we hear and see happening in the ME!
A thought to ponder on:
“According to claims in Encyclopedia of the Orient, The reason for the Yazidis’ reputation of being devil worshipers is connected to the other name of Melek Taus, Shaytan, the same name the Koran has for Satan.” Re: ‘Yazidis’ @ wikipedia.com
ISIS are killing their contemporaries; both Satan believers, Islamic’s and Yazdis’.
Is there is a paradox factor here? Any feedback?
Peggy says
Muslims are so deranged that they actually think they serve some God. Their hearts and minds have been completely taken over by Satan.
Davegreybeard says
@Peggy
“The west now owes it to the people to fix the mess they created.”
The West dosen’t OWE “the people” a damn thing!
It is “those people” who, as an aggregate culture, chose to make the most brutal murderer their “Model of Conduct.”
As a result, their culture is suffused with “The Law of the Jungle” and is totally dysfunctional, except as a weapon to destroy.
They are getting stronger, working together more, with better weapons and now they openly threaten us.
We owe it to OURSELVES to kill those we must, and destroy Islam as an ideology that drives them.
Champ says
Bravo, Dave — you nailed it!
Peggy says
When I said those people, I meant non Christians. Who cares about the Muslims? The fewer the better but the west must go in there and fix the problem. Put the dictators back in to rule over the savages and keep them in check.
Davegreybeard says
@Peggy
“…the west must go in there and fix the problem. Put the dictators back in to rule over the savages and keep them in check.”
All this to “protect” the non Muslims, who it seems, cannot possibly protect themselves.
I do not think you have thought this through, Peggy.
Your position comes directly from “The White Man’s Burden” view of the world. Our black and brown brothers and sisters are incapable of existing in a civilized fashion on their own, so it is our “responsibility” to ensure that they are “protected.” Problem is that eventually those, not quite capable, brown brothers and sisters get a little resentful of the “dictators” so thoughtfully put in place by the kindly, paternal “West.” And when those dictators become insufferable, and the whole thing blows up, who is to blame?
To “owe” them is to own them. I say again, we owe them nothing.
But an honest man has a duty to fight tyranny and injustice wherever he finds it.
DEUS VULT
Peggy says
I was talking about non Muslims. The fact that they are not white is irrelevant. They are Christians and Jews and they CANNOT protect themselves. They are outnumbered and have no way of getting weapons. They are minorities in a Muslim country.
Don’t be so heartless.
Peggy says
Peggy says
May 3, 2015 at 9:17 pm
When I said those people, I meant non Christians.
Sorry that’s wrong. It should be non Muslims. I had Christians on my mind when I typed it.
Peggy says
. Put the dictators back in to rule over the savages and keep them in check.”
All this to “protect” the non Muslims, who it seems, cannot possibly protect themselves.
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NO, they can’t protect themselves and we removed the very people who protected them.
Are you that clueless that you can’t see how few they are in the ME and totally helpless?
We caused their misery by removing the dictators. WE OWE THEM.
Davegreybeard says
Peggy,
It would take military FORCE to reinstall the “dictators,” which means American mothers sons will have to die, and others be maimed, to achieve the objective. You will have to convince your fellow Americans of the necessity of this project, and I’ll lay odds of 10:1 that they just won’t buy it.
Anyone here think it’s a good idea to wage a war to reinstall “dictators?” Anyone?
But let’s just pretend you DID convince America that she should sacrifice more blood and treasure for your little project.
Dictators tend to be an independent lot; how are you going to get them to behave? Everything from mass murder to joining with the Jihadis is possible. It’s just an unworkable idea.
Now, if you want to invade, hold ground and install OUR OWN military dictators, who would enforce civilized law and suppress Islam – I might agree with you, but I doubt few others would.