The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

ISIS is an attention whoring troll? 

[mongers]

When will the US get tough with the Saudi and Gulf princes financing this and other groups ?


15 of 19.
2 UAE too.

[Viking]

ISIS is an attention whoring troll? 

Yes. Considering their YouTube output.

[Eddie Teach]

Phelps never does anything where he risks being sent to jail or executed though.

[Viking]

Having seen multiple articles about WHY IS uses beheading I observe that none of them list as a reason for why that Mohammed like to chop peoples heads off and the Koran talks about smiting off the heads of infidels.

[Grallon]

They seem to work on drawing the West (and chiefly the US) in - and it seems to work.  If one cannot take on a lion - on merely has to make it bleed from a thousand wounds and it will exhaust itself...



G.

[Razgovory]

Having seen multiple articles about WHY IS uses beheading I observe that none of them list as a reason for why that Mohammed like to chop peoples heads off and the Koran talks about smiting off the heads of infidels.

Possibly because it's not relevant?

[CountDeMoney]

Having seen multiple articles about WHY IS uses beheading I observe that none of them list as a reason for why that Mohammed like to chop peoples heads off and the Koran talks about smiting off the heads of infidels.

Probably because it wasn't mentioned in said articles.

For somebody who hates Mooselimbs so much, did you ever bother to take any classes about it?

[Admiral Yi]

Possibly because it's not relevant?

How is it not relevant?  They claim to follow the example of their prophet (pbj).

Puff: as a very minor nitpick, I don't think you smite heads off.  I believe smiting is like bashing or whacking.

[Viking]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Banu_Qurayza

Then the Messenger of Allah commanded that ditches should be dug, so they were dug in the earth, and they were brought tied by their shoulders, and were beheaded. There were between seven hundred and eight hundred of them. The children who had not yet reached adolescence and the women were taken prisoner, and their wealth was seized.[2]
[Ibn Kathir, on Quran 33:26]

The reason IS does behead is because they are following the example of the Prophet. Even a passing knowledge of the life of the prophet should include this. I'm saying that people are deliberately disregarding the reason IS gives for beheading trying to avoid creating or being accused of islamophobia.

[DGuller]

Having seen multiple articles about WHY IS uses beheading I observe that none of them list as a reason for why that Mohammed like to chop peoples heads off and the Koran talks about smiting off the heads of infidels.

Possibly because it's not relevant?

It's very much relevant, Mr. Defender of All Faith.

[Viking]

Having seen multiple articles about WHY IS uses beheading I observe that none of them list as a reason for why that Mohammed like to chop peoples heads off and the Koran talks about smiting off the heads of infidels.

Possibly because it's not relevant?

It's very much relevant, Mr. Defender of All Faith.

The less he knows the more confident he is in his DOF'ness

[Razgovory]

Having seen multiple articles about WHY IS uses beheading I observe that none of them list as a reason for why that Mohammed like to chop peoples heads off and the Koran talks about smiting off the heads of infidels.

Possibly because it's not relevant?

It's very much relevant, Mr. Defender of All Faith.

Beheading has traditionally been a typical way of executing people. It has been done in a lot of places over lots of time periods.  The French and Germans both executed people by beheading.  Do you think that has anything to do with their ancestor's propensity for head hunting? Would you and Viking be happier if they staked them out to die or slowly strangled them to death?

[Valmy]

The French and Germans both executed people by beheading

How else does one deal with treasonous Aristocrats?

[Viking]

Having seen multiple articles about WHY IS uses beheading I observe that none of them list as a reason for why that Mohammed like to chop peoples heads off and the Koran talks about smiting off the heads of infidels.

Possibly because it's not relevant?

It's very much relevant, Mr. Defender of All Faith.

Beheading has traditionally been a typical way of executing people. It has been done in a lot of places over lots of time periods.  The French and Germans both executed people by beheading.  Do you think that has anything to do with their ancestor's propensity for head hunting? Would you and Viking be happier if they staked them out to die or slowly strangled them to death?

You miss the point,as usual. They execute infidels for being infidels because their book tells them to. They use decapitation because that's how their prophet did it.