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originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: CharlieSpeirs
Oh, ISIS will target everybody - Iraq and Syria are just the start because they're weak, but ISIS is coming for Iran, the Kurds, Lebanon, Palestine via Gaza (apparently Hamas is worried about them already), the Saudis, Israel ... and all the rest of us sooner or later if they can. It's just a matter of how much support they get and how soon everyone wakes up and realizes the danger is real. There will be no appeasing, only kneeling.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
What can I do as a Muslim to fight the rancid organisation that is the IS...
If I leave England to fight in Jihad I will be deemed a criminal by my governmeant who have deemed it illegal to leave my shores to fight for this cause...
What can Islamic governments do...
Anything Iran does is deemed evil hence the sanctions...
Why would they risk further alienating themselves...
Egypt is comfortable...
Syria is in the midst of a civil war...
Palestine is being decimated...
Pakistan has their own problems along with Afghanistan...
How about Israel...
The only so called democracy in the Middle East???
They have done nothing also...
It's not as easy for Muslims to do anything as much as it pains us...
All we can do right now is pray and wait for Iraqi salvation...
All the while Britain, Russia & China toot their own horn leaving America to pick up the pieces...
It's much more complicated than it seems!!!
Peace grandma!!!
originally posted by: deadeyedick
a reply to: BlackManINC I would not bet the farm using the logic you just used. We all know very well what the goals of the caliphate are.
originally posted by: DarknStormy
a reply to: CharlieSpeirs
The problem is most of the Islamic Governments are actually Western puppets so they are likely being told what they can and cannot do otherwise face the same outcome as Syria, Libya, Iraq etc. Isn't it funny that the only Islamic nation that did put their hand up was Iran, the only current Islamic country that does not have good relations with the Western world while the rest of them sit back speculating what might possibly happen down the track with no response?
Iran are Pro-active, I don't know what the rest are doing..
originally posted by: BlackManINC
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: CharlieSpeirs
Oh, ISIS will target everybody - Iraq and Syria are just the start because they're weak, but ISIS is coming for Iran, the Kurds, Lebanon, Palestine via Gaza (apparently Hamas is worried about them already), the Saudis, Israel ... and all the rest of us sooner or later if they can. It's just a matter of how much support they get and how soon everyone wakes up and realizes the danger is real. There will be no appeasing, only kneeling.
Ok, I see a lot of fear mongering concerning this ISIS group. Its very saddening to me how easily the media can get people riled up over a supposed enemy just by showing some footage of mayhem in the middle east that's been going on for centuries and claim that "this is the new enemy we all must fear". First they told us to run for our lives and hide under our beds because Al-Qaeda is coming for us, now the fabled ready made enemy is ISIS. Here is the deal for all you people who seem concerned, especially you Christians who seem to think this is fulfilling some kind of end times prophecy. Don't let the media, Satan's tool of deception tell you who your enemy is and isn't. The way I interpret this type of propaganda is very simple. Since the media is telling me that ISIS is an enemy that I as a Christian should be concerned about, then that is a sign that I really shouldn't be too concerned at all and I can move on in life. However, when the media starts promoting a "man" that fits the description of the Islamic Mahdi or the son of perdition as the worlds savior, that is when you Christians should be concerned. The Middle East has never experienced peace nor will it ever see peace in the future.
originally posted by: Diderot
a reply to: Parthin
"One real problem for the Moslem community is that most people outside of it don't know any Moslems. All they see are people shouting, death to this or that, or men with guns and masks. As the Young Earth Creationists have hijacked the public face of Christianity, so have these types done for Islam. Believe me , most Moslems just want to live their lives in peace, following a religion that represents good things. I am not a terrorist sympathizer, and we do have a right to kill them wherever they are found. But I haven't found the hate that most people see on TV in the Moslems I have met and hung out with."
The USA opened Pandora's Box, and we truly deserve a measure of blame. Saddam Hussein, as brutal as he was, managed to maintain the status quo. Now, after George W. Bush's quixotic gamble on manifest destiny, we face a pit of 1000 demons. The Middle East (I didn't even mention Israel) is still an inner ring of Dante's hell.
originally posted by: grandmakdw
originally posted by: BlackManINC
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: CharlieSpeirs
Oh, ISIS will target everybody - Iraq and Syria are just the start because they're weak, but ISIS is coming for Iran, the Kurds, Lebanon, Palestine via Gaza (apparently Hamas is worried about them already), the Saudis, Israel ... and all the rest of us sooner or later if they can. It's just a matter of how much support they get and how soon everyone wakes up and realizes the danger is real. There will be no appeasing, only kneeling.
Ok, I see a lot of fear mongering concerning this ISIS group. Its very saddening to me how easily the media can get people riled up over a supposed enemy just by showing some footage of mayhem in the middle east that's been going on for centuries and claim that "this is the new enemy we all must fear". First they told us to run for our lives and hide under our beds because Al-Qaeda is coming for us, now the fabled ready made enemy is ISIS. Here is the deal for all you people who seem concerned, especially you Christians who seem to think this is fulfilling some kind of end times prophecy. Don't let the media, Satan's tool of deception tell you who your enemy is and isn't. The way I interpret this type of propaganda is very simple. Since the media is telling me that ISIS is an enemy that I as a Christian should be concerned about, then that is a sign that I really shouldn't be too concerned at all and I can move on in life. However, when the media starts promoting a "man" that fits the description of the Islamic Mahdi or the son of perdition as the worlds savior, that is when you Christians should be concerned. The Middle East has never experienced peace nor will it ever see peace in the future.
Are you implying that there is another force involved? One trying perhaps or wanting perhaps to draw the US into a war that it not only has no place in but would actually make matters worse because the people in the region see the US and Americans as the great satan.
originally posted by: DrakeINFERNO
a reply to: DarknStormy
so that's an accurate translation? some wires must be getting crossed.
originally posted by: DarknStormy
a reply to: grandmakdw
One of the reasons why some think the US have finally decided to go in is because ISIS are within range of the 9th largest oil fields in the world... Don't hold me too it but I did hear it somewhere. What I would like to know is would the US be doing the same if ISIS were not a threat to those oil fields?
originally posted by: DarknStormy
a reply to: grandmakdw
I could agree with that about the Muslims making a stand but what about the people in the Western world who sit idly by and allow their intelligence agencies and government to continuously weaponize and fund these Barbaric minority groups? The thing is we could get rid of ISIS but are ISIS the underlying problem or just the result of more Western meddling?
The other point I will make is that ISIS have been around for about 7 years in Iraq. They didn't just arise out of nowhere. They would of been known in Iraq before the leap to fame. The only time they did begin to gain power was when they were saturated with weapons and funding and funnily enough this began to happen during the Syria conflict and after Rolex wearing Al-Baghdadi was released from prison.
So I think it is wrong to simply assume that this is the Muslims problem and their problem only. If there was no influence from abroad and ISIS have been in Iraq for the past 7 years then why didn't they start this atrocity 7 years ago? It's because they were nobodies until someone decided it would be a smart idea to elevate their status on the global scene.