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originally posted by: r0xor
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: r0xor
Sure don't trust the media. That let's you invent your own reality that ISIS isn't anything but a very regional threat to two destabilized countries. They certainly will NEVER be a threat to Israel.
Losing 25% of the territory you took originally (which was already a small area to begin with). That's certainly the promising outlook of a group poised to become an international threat...
Al-Qaeda has 0% of territory, they've still killed thousands, all across the world, not just in two destabilized countries.
You have to understand the psychology and indoctrination of ISIS to really see it as a threat. How it's grown out of nothing, how it draws in foreign fighters from across the world, how it has supporters that are alone and isolated wherever they may be, and just might show up to the party to murder everyone in attendance, then die trying to murder the cops who've come to stop them. Like in Australia recently, and France. Please tell me you aren't saying global terrorism doesn't exist and we shouldn't be worried about it, or the contribution that ISIS may or may not make.
They've got the resources, manpower, materials, money, and terribly.. the faith to make Al-Qaeda look like Fischer Price, my first terrorist group.
originally posted by: The angel of light
a reply to: Krazysh0t
No, you are quite wrong, and mark my words just for future reference. ISIS is gaining support not only in the muslim world, they are moving a lot among renegades and other anarchists in the west, there is evidence that they are recruiting people in Western Europe.
The Obama administration is asking the Congress to facilitate the sending of support to Iraq precisely because they are aware of the terrible risk that represents to have ISIS in control of vast strategic areas from which it is relatively easy to spread their influence toward all the Levant.
The air military support that also has been offered by US to the Iraq goverment is a clear signal of how much is the level of worry that ISIS is causing in the white house, at this moment they are causing more damage that even Alqaeda, their momentum is also stronger than what Alqaeda had when they were just beginning.
Now, One of the facts that show precisely that their power is growing is that ISIS has at present a very ofensive strategy, moving no longer in just one front, trying to converge from south Turkey to Iraq and Syria and from Lybia to Egypt.
Now, the erosion of the relationships in between Russia and the West is giving a lot of air to those terrorists, since they know that NATO is so much distracted with Ukraine civil war , As well as Russia, so they are fighting just against small countries that are exhausted of their own civil wars.
It is likely that ISIS at some point will merge forces with the Chechnyans, with Alqaeda, other muslim revels of the Caucasus mountains, Hamas, islamic Yihad and even possibly with what remains of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Thanks,
The Angel of Lightness
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originally posted by: Krazysh0t
And Al-Qaeda is all but destroyed now
I don't have to understand crap. Terrorism is designed to raise the fearful doubts that you are expressing RIGHT here. Your words are an expression that shows that terrorism works. I know what ISIS' ideology is, and I also know that that the threat they pose has been blown WAY out of proportion.
I know that no terrorist attack will EVER destabilize a country unless its citizens let it. For three, I don't fear terrorism.
They don't have any of those things.
originally posted by: r0xor
Laugh. That's why Al-Shabaab, who is Al-Qaeda, killed over 140 innocent mostly young people less than a week ago in Kenya. What were their odds of ending up dead in an attack? Happened to them anyways. But they were singled out because they were Christians, and I doubt you're too worried about that one, right? Which, if true, begs the question why you even clicked on this thread (and are participating) to read about interpretations of bible prophecies to begin with unless you wanted to shoot someone or something down. It's a free country though, right? I guess that only applies if you live in the United States.
Ah, so by that rationale, the United States Government might as well come and scoop me up and lock me away, because my words are an expression of the functions of terrorism, and I scare people, which is what terrorists are trying to accomplish. I am apparently the end result of the aim of terrorist organizations, nothing more than a scare-monger, a fear based entity. I could be a harm to unsuspecting people, and unknowingly support the agenda of terror groups, so I am a liability to the population. Krazysh0t for President.
And it's citizens will never let a terrorist attack ever destabilize their country unless they don't like it to begin with. If they don't like it, there's a reason why, and it's one that negatively affects most of the citizens. These are problems caused and dealt with at the top, so if a terrorist attack ever destabilizes a country, it's because the Government of that country is too weak.
Unfortunately, none of that will matter when you're dead from a terrorist attack. No one will really shed a tear either for you, even though you're dead, because your government didn't fall despite it. Oh well ..
May the Government live forever and ever! lol
If I was bored and/or determined enough, which I'm not (thank God), I'd post all kinds of references right here with links to articles and studies from all sorts of places explaining and giving evidence for the sheer amount of money that they make on a daily basis through oil, drugs, kidnapping/ransom, plundering, theft, money laundering, and religious donations, but it would take too long. There'd also be articles on their estimated man-power, and embedded videos from youtube showing footage of all kinds of terrible #.
Don't care if you don't want to. You equate me to a proliferator of terrorist related fear, and I equate you to those in denial, ignorance, or disbelief, with too largely inflated ideas of the powers that be and possibly their own security & safety in the scheme of things to really even care about what ISIS is doing to people, or what it might or might not do. Who cares if they kill Christians ruthlessly and this is a thread about a Christian prophecy.
originally posted by: The angel of light
Dear Readers,
I think that to assume ISIS is now fighting at a defensive position is a fatal error, everything point to the fact that they are enhancing their control or sphere of influence beyond the Levant region.
Such a point of view of the current events is quite wrong, you can mark my words for future reference.
ISIS is gaining support not only in the muslim world, they are moving a lot among renegades and other anarchists in the west, there is evidence that they are recruiting people in Western Europe, and this is not only in France.
The Obama administration is asking the Congress to facilitate the sending of support to Iraq precisely because they are aware of the terrible risk that represents to have ISIS in control of vast strategic areas from which it is relatively easy to spread their influence toward all the Levant.
The air military support that also has been offered by US to the Iraq government is a clear signal of how much is the level of worry that ISIS is causing in the white house, at this moment they are causing more damage that even Alqaeda, their momentum is also stronger than what Alqaeda had when they were just beginning.
Now, One of the facts that show precisely that their power is growing is that ISIS has at present a very offensive strategy, moving no longer in just one front, trying to converge from south Turkey to Iraq and Syria and from Lybia to Egypt.
The media is giving so much attention to the campaign of Isis either to control all Syria or all Iraq, but it is evident that ISIS is moving a lot in Lybia and they are practically in control of all the eastern side of that country, in my opinion their real big objetive now is to infiltrate Egypt and use the political unstable situation of that country to boost their possibilities to also take control of it. The Islamic Brotherhood of Egypt can offer them a mutually beneficial alliance.
It is likely that ISIS at some point will merge forces with the Chechnyans, with Alqaeda, other muslim rebels of the Caucasus mountains, Hamas, islamic Yihad and even possibly with what remains of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
originally posted by: r0xor
originally posted by: ThinkingMom
But it's because it does say in Revelation that the martyrs were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, when they appear before the Throne in white garments. Maybe that's where the big idea of chopping off Christians heads comes from, for ISIS?
originally posted by: Utnapisjtim
a reply to: The angel of light
Josephus says something else:
Noah's World
en.wikipedia.org...
Defections to Islamic State
Starting in November 2014, mid-level commanders of the Caucasus Emirate began publicly switching their allegiance from Emirate leader Ali Abu Mukhammad to the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, following Baghdadi and his group's declaration of a caliphate earlier in the year.[21] By February 2015, many commanders of the Emirate's Vilayat Nokhchicho and Vilayat Dagestan, including the latter's leader, Rustam Asildarov, had defected.[21][22] Mukhammad and senior loyalists within the Emirate released statements denouncing the defections, and accused Asildarov and others of betrayal