ISIS and Islamic militants - discussion
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When I read statements like this "Many Muslims and other groups view Yazidis as devil worshippers" I can't help but think the whole world could be made a lot more peaceful by abolishing religion. To think people are slaughtering others over issues which seem so trivial to me as a non religious person is madness. Then again, if it wasn't religion it would no doubt be something else used as an excuse to push the extremists own agendas.
They have - Iran is providing a lot of support to the Iraqi govt, Syria is actively fighting IS too. This is why its tricky for the US to intervene - go too far and they're only really helping with a short term fix, crush some militants but leave a situation in place whereby the Shia still dominate.
If Iraq wants help from Saudi, Quatar etc.. then they'd have to do something that might have prevented this issue with IS being such an issue in the first place - stop marginalising the Sunni groups in the country. It was only a small number of IS fighters who initially made huge gains, they did so because the Sunni either didn't fight them or actively helped them, to some they were a better alternative than the Shia dominated govt that had marginalised them.
the Kurds were hardly in a position to solve the issue, not fighting IS and simply securing their own territory works to further their cause - after all they're trying to achieve independence
Can they bomb East London while they're at it?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...mic-state-flown-poplar-east-london?CMP=twt_fd
http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...mic-state-flown-poplar-east-london?CMP=twt_fd
Eh...? You do know curry comes (mostly) from India right? I know you think alll those "darkies " look the same but still...
technically his slightly bigoted 'joke' can still work - most 'Indian' restaurants are run by Bangladeshi Muslims.
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About time too. At least the Americans are doing something unlike the rest of Europe, albeit a few air strikes probably will just slow down ISIS rather than anything really tangible.
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This is I guess one of the key reasons that people on here advocate immigration so much on here, without even understanding who they are letting in or why they would want them to come here. So stupid and short sighted.
Baseball sized hunk of weapons grade uranium (may be plutonium) plus a stick of TNT and you can irradiate a few square miles and the people in it, detonate in a subway/underground and it will be uninhabitable for a very long time.
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Yea easy as that init! That's why its happened so often... oh wait.
In some ways it's a good thing, in others it's not a good thing.
As all I can see the cowardly snackbars doing is retreating to Syria to join the rest of IS and slaughtering people there instead. As soon as they start taking larger losses.
And once in Syria, it will be a case of out of sight out of mind
As all I can see the cowardly snackbars doing is retreating to Syria to join the rest of IS and slaughtering people there instead. As soon as they start taking larger losses.
And once in Syria, it will be a case of out of sight out of mind