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| Busting the Media's ISIS Myths | |
| 2014-08-17 | |
ISIS is not a new phenomenon. Wahhabi armies have been attacking Iraq in order to wipe out Shiites for over two hundred years. One of the more notably brutal attacks took place during the administration of President Thomas Jefferson. That same year the Marine Corps saw action against the Barbary Pirates and West Point opened, but even Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore and Howard Zinn chiming via Ouija board would have trouble blaming the Wahhabi assault on the Iraqi city of Kerbala in 1802 on the United States or an oil pipeline. Forget the media portrayals of ISIS as a new extreme group that even the newly moderate Al Qaeda thinks is over the top; its armies are doing the same things that Wahhabi armies have been doing for centuries. ISIS has Twitter accounts, pickup trucks and other borrowed Western technology, but its ideology and brutality have always been part of Islam. They are not a new phenomenon. Sunnis and Shiites have been killing each other for over a thousand years. Declaring other Muslims to be infidels and killing them is also a lot older than the suicide bomb vest. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 borgboy There's plenty of brand spanking and awesome new stuff in civilised western capitalist countries |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-08-17 19:20 |
| #4 "There is nothing new under the sun." |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-08-17 19:15 |
| #3 That same year the Marine Corps saw action against the Barbary Pirates and West Point opened, but even Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore and Howard Zinn chiming via Ouija board would have trouble blaming the Wahhabi assault on the Iraqi city of Kerbala in 1802 on the United States or an oil pipeline. Give 'em half a chance. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2014-08-17 09:14 |
| #2 ISIS threaten their Soody paymasters, JQC. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-17 08:44 |
| #1 I'm surprised that the left MSM such as NYTs, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR etc. haven't portrayed the ISIS psychos as "brave lions and heroes of Islam." Maybe they have; I haven't seen everything they put out. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-17 07:51 |