Thought I'd start a general thread about ISIS, there are so many things in the news about them now. This one I came across is disturbing, so if you are sensitive...don't watch. ISIS training young kids on how to kill... http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/201...pkg.cnn/video/playlists/isis-power-an-terror/
Ken....can you change the title to show ISIS in capital letters? I tried but it didnt work. Tried with thread tools, but nothing happened.
There's no good way to do that. In order to avoid the mixture of titles, some of which were all in lowercase, and others all in uppercase, I chose the setting that would automatically capitalize the first letter in each word, but just the first letter. Unfortunately, it doesn't differentiate between words and acronyms, so the best way to do that is to put a space between them. Most titles look good that way, but it won't allow you to capitalize every letter in a word (or acronym), and it won't allow you to capitalize the first word following a parenthesis, without including spaces.
I have no words....after reading that article. I cannot watch the videos. Just this ONE excerpt alone, make me ill: " ISIS also recruits children to carry out suicide missions. In the past three months, ISIS conducted a number of suicide operations in the northern outskirts of Aleppo against opposition forces in an attempt to gain control of the cities of Aazaz, Tal Rafaat, and Marea. Some local sources claim that ISIS used children in 80% of these operations, mainly because of the ease with which they can be brainwashed and transformed into loyal operatives."
Also, this was the first WOMAN suicide bomber in the west... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...sts-first-female-suicide-bomber-a6740401.html So, already we have women and children which makes it difficult to vet the syrian refuges.
Another scary scenario....ISIS looking to use chemical weapons, I think this scares me the most! http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-pursuing-production-of-chemical-weapons-officials-say/
ISIS is the biggest thing now in the international scene with that Paris attack. There are talks of a unified force to be participated in by allied and non-allied countries. From what I gathered about ISIS, it is a small group that is promoting a religion that is pure, according to them, because the Islam that we know is not pure. That's the essence of their spiel such that it attracts idealists like those 3 college students from London who went to Syria to be the brides of the ISIS fighters. Sadly, tt's not an isolated case since many are doing that. ISIS has a recruitment brigade whose members spend alll of their waking hours in the internet, particularly in the chatrooms to recruit innocent victims. So what to do? Launch a media campaign to let the whole world know the ulterior motives of ISIS.
Christian Army Fighting ISIS Pleads for US Support Unfortunately, they are unlikely to get President Obama's support with an argument about protecting Christians. I don't think that's on his agenda.
Christians, Muslims, and Assad Troops Come Together to Defend Biblical Town From ISIS I think we're on the wrong side of this one, just as I think Obama is on the wrong side in his domestic policies. He's obviously not stupid, so he must prefer Islamic extremists to Christians; domestically, he must not want the United States to be a great nation.
Either our government has a sinister plan that is not in the best interests of our country, or they have no idea what they're getting involved in. The United States seems to flit from one side to another in the Middle East, supporting one side, then another, all along supplying every side in a conflict that we have no business being involved in. There has long been wars in that part of the world, but they become so much more dangerous with US-supplied weaponry.
I find the news very disturbing about what ISIS or ISIL does. They are just murderers to me with no aim in sight that makes any moral sense at all. Luckily we have the United Nations looking into the situation. I found this article that shows what ISIS is from CNN. They are a mob only trying to take over the world it seems!
Did I hear people suggesting that only a small minority of Muslims support ISIS. Well, that's not what a recent Pew Poll found. The found that 63 million Muslims support the ISIS killers.
Thanks for sharing the info and I shared it on my timeline at facebook. OMG! glad this situation about ISIS is at the U.N.!
There is actually talk about arming al Qaeda to fight against ISIS. The Onion couldn't do better than that, but real life has often competed with The Onion during the past seven years. We created ISIS in order to destabilize the Syrian government. Of course, that got out of hand, so now they're actually talking about equipping al Qaeda in order to help in the fight against ISIS, as if nothing could go wrong there. During the years that we've been involved in the Middle East, we've armed every side, which doesn't serve the interests of the American people and does nothing but make the situation more unmanageable. That's the problem though. Our government isn't interested in winning, but in destabilizing the Middle East.