Tag: ISIS
Trump Shows Class on Baghdadi Kill
“He was a sick and depraved man, and now he’s dead. He’s dead. Dead as a door nail.”
— President Trump, quoted by CBS News, addressing the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, while adding “another president should’ve gotten him.”
Nearly 1,000 ISIS Fighters Escape
950
Syrian Kurdish officials said clashes near Ain Eissa, a key Kurdish-held town in northern Syria, allowed 950 Islamic State supporters to escape from a camp for displaced people near a U.S.-led coalition base, the AP reports.
Trump Says ISIS Fighters Will Escape to Europe, Not the U.S.
“They’re going to be escaping to Europe.”
— Donald Trump, when asked if he was concerned that Islamic State fighters would be able to escape because of Turkey’s military operation in Syria, he predicted that the militants would not travel to the United States, CBS News reports. His comment was apparently meant to reassure Americans.
BOOM! … Russia Who?
To divert attention from Russia, Trump’ll do anything he can.
It’s been that way since his administration began.
But diverting attention
Just entered a new dimension
When Trump dropped the biggest bomb ever on Afghanistan.
Irrelevant Giuliani Says Clinton a ‘Founding Member’ of ISIS
She had her chance to do it. She helped create ISIS. I mean, Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of ISIS.
— Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, saying that Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of the Islamic State through her efforts to help U.S. troops leave Iraq, Politico reports.
Most Americans Don’t Think Obama Has a Plan on How to Deal with ISIS
23%
Of Americans think President Obama has a clear plan for dealing with ISIS, the lowest number yet recorded, according to a new CBS News poll. Sixty-six percent do not think he has a clear plan — a new high. “Large majorities of Republicans and independents say the President doesn’t have a clear plan, and almost half of Democrats (40%) agree. More Democrats (45%) say he doesn’t have a plan than say he does.”
Like ISIS, US Christian Extremists Advocate Killing Gays – But ISIS Is Actually Doing It
While ISIS has been barraging the world media with horrific images — burning a Jordanian pilot alive and beheading journalists, aid workers and, most recently, 21 Egyptian Christians — it has also been executing gay men by hurling them to their deaths off of rooftops and other high places. Two men were also reportedly crucified for being gay.
ISIS appears to be handling these two kinds of public murders differently. By releasing videos of its executions of hostages, ISIS seeks international publicity as a gambit to stoke outrage, fear and horror in order to lure the civilized world into an Armageddon-like conflagration in the Middle East. The executions of gay men are handled with less fanfare, however, because ISIS views these murders as simply carrying out God’s judgment for the sin of homosexuality, based on scriptures in the Koran.
Most Americans view this sort of barbarism toward gays with detachment — it’s a faraway Muslim death cult acting out its extremist views. In fact, on the issue of homosexuality, ISIS is aligned with Christian extremists right here in the United States, many of whom also interpret God’s law as calling for the execution of gays.
There is a key difference, of course. While Christianists advocate killing gays, ISIS is actually doing it.
