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turtledove is deplorable says

The terror group also brutally assaulted beat three young men for playing football and wearing a T-shirt with Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi, according to Iraqi News.

See, I learn something new every day... I didn't even know that the Koran prohibited such things. No Messi shirts? Talk about specific!

ISIS is losing control of Mosul. The resistance is getting bolder and doing acts of defiance such as painting murals. Some ISIS are turning tail, and others are cracking down on the acts through acts of brutality. I think it is only a matter of time (getting shorter) before there is a battle over control of Mosul.

Obama's plan for defeating ISIS without maintaining a permanent US presence in Iraq is working. Hopefully, we won't get roped into another war over there to show how tough we are. That would be deplorable.

turtledove is deplorable says

Isis has executed six young men with welding equipment in a horrific public execution in front of a huge crowd of onlookers.

Sounds like business as usual. Thankfully, the reign of ISIS is coming to an end. What will replace ISIS is the million dollar question.

And Iran is helping to defeat them?

Yes, shows how radical and fringe ISIS is. For sure.

Good god. A welding machine. The world hasn't seen things like that, in public, for about 500 years.

In other cheerie news, there is some evidence to suggest they are trying to use old chemical rounds on US troops.

Reminds me of Torquemada.

Rew says

Yes, shows how radical and fringe ISIS is. For sure.

Not to nitpick, but how does it show "fringe." They did this in front of a large gathering. No one stopped them either because they supported them or feared them. But who would fear a "fringe" group, which implies a small group? I'm just saying, they seem to have a lot of power and control over things for a fringe organization.

That is always how it works, group think, coercion, ideology rinse and repeat throughout history.

Rew says

Yes, shows how radical and fringe ISIS is. For sure.

Good god. A welding machine. The world hasn't seen things like that, in public, for about 500 years.

Torture and cruelty has always been embedded in Islamic punishments. What ISIS is doing represents nothing more than the classic form of Islam.

Terrorist organizations are not mainstream ideological and societal norms. As you rightly point out, there is a huge amount of fear allowing them to exist, and their actions are all about control through fear. That is how a smaller group can maintain control over a much larger group.

Anyone who believes ISIS is following an originalist/true interpretation of Islam is lending them all the support they need.

Rew says

Anyone who believes ISIS is following an originalist/true interpretation of Islam is lending them all the support they need.

Anyone who does NOT believes ISIS is following an originalist/true interpretation of Islam is denying the true cause of terrorism, cruelty and torture.

Strategist says

Anyone who does NOT believes ISIS is following an originalist/true interpretation of Islam is denying the true cause of terrorism, cruelty and torture.

Read the Koran. This is how Islam spread in the first place. The didn't hand out Muslim version of Jack Chick Tracts.

Whereas Christianity was first spread by evangelizing.