ISIS Irrationality Unexplained
Submitted by Charles Knighton
ISIS Killings
On Monday, April 20, both sections of the press informed their readership of the latest ISIS atrocity, the beheading of 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
Why does ISIS consistently act with such savage irrationality? What goals does it seek by slaughtering and alienating other Muslims, beheading and incinerating hostages, stoning adulterous women to death, throwing gays off buildings and sacrificing thousands of its fighters in losing battles to retain captured cities such as Kobani and Tikrit?
For ISIS, there are no recognizable cost-benefit analyses. Slaughtering infidels is not a means to an end—it is the end. To an even greater degree than al Qaida or Boko Haram or al Shabab, ISIS is an utterly fanatical group—a mass death cult fired by an intoxicating vision of Islamic purity.
While moderate Muslims are quick to claim that ISIS is not Islamic, the reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. The religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam. Mohammed himself not only endorsed the beheading of infidels, he personally practiced what he preached.
This vision of Islamic purity has attracted not only psychopaths but also thousands of young men who’ve traded lives of powerlessness for a thrilling and pitiless campaign against a corrupt world. In videos, ISIS fighters are often seen beaming with exultation, as if intoxicated with their power.
History has taught us that charismatic leaders offering absolute purity can seduce large groups of people and even entire nations, and that these regimes can be stronger and more enduring than rational analysis would predict. Such fanaticism can be stopped only one way: By killing the people infected with it.
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The death cult called ISIS certainly appears to be a powerful magnet for disaffected youth.
Take a good look at the Caribbean region with her corrupt leadership, her compliance to a global order which denies her masses the right to live in dignity; and the presence of an ever remaining colonial planter class. Would it really be such a surprise that this death cult could possibly seduce our down-trodden, impressionable and gullible Caribbean youth to join them in their mass killing sprees? Either in the Middle East or in the Caribbean.
The seeds of ISIS have already been planted in the Caribbean region. A good seed goes through a period of incubation and germination. The harvesting of that ISIS seed will wreak havoc to the Caribbean region.
Our political leaders through their mendacity have built a platform for groups such as ISIS to penetrate our region. Take a look at the steady rise of Islam within Barbados. It has gone unnoticed and is rarely discussed. Take a look at our foolish neighbour Antigua who are so desperate to raise cash for their impoverished economy that they are offering citizenship for sale for residents from the UAE and Dubai.
You may be interested in the 2 links below.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Why-My–Son-Fights–With-ISIS-278917651.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/03/don-jihadi-jose-150330072341180.html
Keep up the good work BU and David. I would like to contribute more to this forum but I have lost faith in both the Barbados leadership and her citizens to make Barbados a better place.
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All the groups mentioned in this ‘piece’ were started by western interests, are armed by western interests, get their money from western interests, are used for geo-political aims by western interests, receive diplomatic coverage from western interests, western countries were and are their air forces, they receive medical care in Israel, countries were destroyed by western interests and given to them, they are even now resupplied by western interests. And we could go on and on ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Only the willfully ignorant would continue to buy into a narrative about the depravity of the acts described, while not having the ‘brain space’ to synthesize information to understand the underlining reasons for this phenomenon. A lot of misinformation and perverse appeals to emotion, not logic, will eventually win the day, they think!. For ‘religiously’ the many, like sheeple, will form an army to be the carriers of The Big Lies’.
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Pacha your head needs examining badly! You still haven’t answered my question I asked many months ago to name the Muslim countries you stated that are doing well?
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Mr. Pachamama for the sake of clarification could you expand on…
—“Only the willfully ignorant … while not having the ‘brain space’ to synthesize information to understand the underlining reasons for this phenomenon. A lot of misinformation and perverse appeals to emotion, not logic, will eventually win the day, they think!”
What is the logic to consider re the ISIS killing squads and historical sites destruction squads as compared to the ‘perverse’ emotions felt by those who witness the beheadings and mass deaths of prisoners of war?
It is accurate that ISIS could not have formed and expanded to its present strength were it not for the criminal actions of the Bush regime. That is as true as 1+1=2.
So here we are today.
However, it a bit simplistic to sensationalize “…they receive medical care in Israel, countries were destroyed by western interests and given to them”.
Israel are intent on one thing: survival. They have throughout their history and Jewish people generally before nationhood have created alliances to suit their life’s goal. Their support to overthrow a leader in Syria fits Israel’s desires and thus is the base nexus with this ISIS and all its incarnations.
It’s the same nexus that created the complete hypocrisy for the US and others.
Strangely enough Vlad Putin was, from day one, a strong opponent to support for the Al-Assad rebels and can be acclaimed as being wise to the problems. But using some of that ‘brain space’ you allude to helps one to understand that his motives were as putrid as those of the west but just on the opposite. He was a strong supporter of the Assad terror apparatus rather than being simply a wise analyst who foresaw the current predicament.
This abject catastrophe started back when Gen Powell made his famous remarks and cautioned that if the US broke the regime in Iraq that they would be responsible to fix it…forever.
So yes the West is and will be complicit in this until the end of time.
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@Pacha
By your argument do you absolve the people of the ISIS region from all wrong doing?
Based on an ideology underpinned by ‘education’ any position can be rationalized.
Geopolitics is what drives the world and the final responsibility must be the target to find ways to resist.
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Exclaimer, we can agree that the Caribbean youth are disaffected and wonderful candidates for ISIS. Yasin Abu Bakr the T&T coup leader showed us that path very clearly years ago.
I would also agree that the small isles of the Caribbean have a lot more to lose as a result of the youths returning from stints in Iraq or wherever and creating upheavals but I expect our security services to be on top of that; and because of that same small size those security folks have a tremendous advantage…well in Barbados and other EC islands anyhow.
But we disagree on you or anyone else becoming so disillusioned that you lack the motivation to continue to make a change in some capacity because “I have lost faith in both the Barbados leadership and her citizens to make Barbados a better place”.
Let’s man up here, England have sent and will continue to send more disaffected youth to ISIS than all the islands combined and there is rampant corruption, racism and all types of negatives there as well but people still continue to fight for change and to embrace the many, many positives the country offers.
We can do absolutely no less here. You and all like minded members of the far flung Bajan family should continue to feel empowered to be part of that voice for change.
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@Word
How can you be so confident our security forces are able to be on top of anything when we struggle to do as you suggest with US deportees? These returnees continue to lead gangs and be involved in criminal activity.
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Don’t expect to understand ISIS irrationality….
It is spiritual wickedness being perpetrated in high places…
Signs of the times. But wunna folks play wunna won’t listen….
Ask GP what was meant by ….”because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.” Also ask him what this portends…..
He knows…
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There are parallels between ISIS + Colonialism, Slavery, Christian Crusades, Naziism
and even today’s Modern Wars Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, have created failed states for ISIS to flourish
The Wicked in Israel flourish stomping on Palestine
All wars should stop, throw down your arms and work for Peace
ISIS/ISIL=Israel,USA Military?
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David, reasonable connection to the deportees who have caused major problems. But there is a major difference between that level of criminal and a potential terrorist minded criminal.
Maybe as you allude to maybe the security forces do not have the fortitude to carry out their mandate in the way they must but I retain a sense of confidence that they do. Here is why!
Deportees are Bajans who according to the local laws have done nothing wrong. Furthermore, the asinine actions by the Justice/Immigrations Depts in the US placed our authorities in a position where they knew nothing of the person’s resume traits on arrival (I hope that has changed in recent years).
Those guys easily assimilated into the local scene and became local dons of crime activity. That is not the situation with a potential terrorist.
I expect the collaboration with US Defense/Intelligence officials is at a very different level than with the Justice/Immigration folks because the threat back to US is also very high.
That sir is why I expect our security forces to be on top of any such persons.
Left to me any such person returning to Barbados would be remanded as a security risk. On release, he would be monitored closely (and let him be aware that he is) and if he blows his nose at the wrong place I would arrest him again.
In short, those individuals should be treated in a completely different way to a ‘regular’ criminal. Moreso, if they ‘lawyer up’ on civil rights grounds then the laws MUST be changed to facilitate them being legally detained because of their avowed and clear support of a known terrorist group.
The US and locals cannot allow the same lax attitude re the deportees to permeate and gain prominence of action. The risks are astronomically too high.
And yes I also agree with your indirect condemnation that the issue of criminal deportees needs to be addressed and managed much better than done currently.
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Unfortunately, ISIS in Iraq is forcing each family in its captured territory to “give” one male man or teenager to its troops. So, many are forced to join. If they try to leave, they get killed by ISIS. If they fight, they may be killed by those forces opposing ISIS.
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It is not true to say that this matter is either an irrationality or unexplained.
All the information is out there for those who have eyes to see. Here on BU we have tried to bring that information to the fore. Evidently, that God’s anointed, ‘as leader of the free world’, could be behind this evil is not acceptable to those who still believe that armies could be mobilized from all over the world to fight several proxy wars, simultaneously and all this is being done by the depraved. Military studies are needed in high schools.
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If only ISIS could be more civilized, you know – like Americans and Canadians, who only slaughter civilians and opposing military forces in strict accordance with the Geneva Convention.
From Vietnam to ISIS: Canada needs to apologize
Over a four-hour period, they “methodically slaughtered more than five hundred unarmed victims, killing some in ones and twos, others in small groups, and collecting many more in a drainage ditch…They faced no opposition. They even took a quiet break to eat lunch in the midst of the carnage. Along the way, they also raped women and young girls, mutilated the dead, systematically burned homes, and fouled the area’s drinking water.”
It sounds like a terrorism story ripped from today’s headlines about ISIS, the kind likely to inspire ritualized name-calling (“death cult … barbaric cultural practices … no value for human life”) from Stephen Harper, Jason Kenney, and their locker-room gang of over-grown boys eagerly vying to be the first to post on Twitter about Canadian aerial attacks. But it actually describes the American military in a village called My Lai, Vietnam, in 1968, one of hundreds of similar such massacres that took place during the American invasion and occupation of that distant land.
It comes from a book on how U.S. war crimes were in fact standard operating procedure (i.e., the norm, not an aberration), Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves. The title references an order from war criminal Richard Nixon to war criminal Henry Kissinger, who in turn told his fellow criminal, Alexander Haig: “He [Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn’t want to hear anything. It’s an order, it’s to be done. Anything that flies, on anything that moves. You got that?”
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But an apology? The cauldron from which ISIS emerged is an Iraq in which colonial invaders and occupiers have been messing about with mass murder for more than a century, from Winston Churchill’s bombing of civilians and his famous terrorist statement about gassing the Iraqi people (“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes … gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror”) to U.S. and Canadian support for Saddam Hussein as he gassed his own people, to Canadian bombings of the Iraqi people during the murderous 1991 campaign. The images from that war included Iraqi soldiers burned alive who, retreating, were fired upon anyhow, and buried alive under the sands by massive bulldozers with no respect for the Geneva Convention. Then came the determined effort to destroy the remnants of Iraqi civil society by encouraging conditions of water-borne disease and misery, suffocating a whole generation who continued for a decade to live under daily bombings and occasional cruise missile attacks, and sanctions that claimed over a million Iraqi lives, all enforced proudly at a cost of $1 billion by Canadian warships.
Some of the worst depredations following the 2003 invasion (heartily supported by Canada in the same profitable way the war against the Vietnamese was supported) included occupation soldiers firing on just about any Iraqi who blinked, all under the command of a Canadian General. Canadian bullets from Quebec’s SNC-Lavalin supplied the occupation forces, while drones with Wescam cameras from Burlington, Ontario aided in extrajudicial executions.
Many of the crimes and their victims are catalogued in a new report from Physicians for Social Responsibility, which estimates a total of 1.3 million direct deaths from the so-called war on terror. The death cult that’s the Pentagon stateside and the War Department in Canada did not “do body counts,” and while the tragic loss of Canadian lives in Afghanistan is lamentable, so are the countless unnamed and uncounted victims of the 10 million or so bullets fired there by Canadian hands, the endless rounds of mortar fire, the air strikes called in, the drone strikes whose Hellfire missiles have sliced through the tender brides and grooms of many a wedding, the schoolchildren massacred in an instant from the air, the farmers “mistaken” for “militants,” all made possible with Canada’s taxpayer-supported technology.
And so just as Pol Pot rose out of the destruction of Cambodia, so we see ISIS arising from the incredible criminality waged by countries like the U.S., Britain and Canada. But an apology is only the first step, for without action, it is meaningless.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2015/04/vietnam-to-isis-canada-needs-to-apologize
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ISIS was created Western Interest – CIA/ Mossad/ MI-6 & ISIS ( Israeli Secret Intelligence Service).
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Truth In Media : Origin of ISIS
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Suspicions Run Deep in Iraq That C.I.A. and the Islamic State Are United
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
SEPTEMBER 20, 2014
New Yoj Times.
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A very small point; a distraction; even a red-herring
Seems as if Barbados has two groups of citizens.. Bajans and US deportees.
One could argue that these deportees learned their wickedness in the US, or the US kept the “good” Bajans and kicked out the bad Bajans.
Whatever label that you use, they are Bajans.
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