Islamic State jihadists have worked hard to establish the image of murderous extremists who slaughter innocent people and destroy ancient religious temples and shrines. However, various newspapers are reporting, the group appears to be eager to show on social media that they are also domesticated as well as hip in recruiting new followers. Appearing across social media are images of Islam Yaken, a young Egyptian law student who left his affluent family in Cairo to become a soldier for Islamic State with signature sword and slaughterous slogans. At the same time, the ladies of Islamic State are recruiting Western and European women to come and hook up with jihadi in a bizarre version of eHarmony or JDate. JihadDate is a bit different. It promises that, if lucky, you can watch your loved one martyr himself — I kid you not.
Yaken is a product of the best schools in Egypt and lived what seems a Westernized life, which makes his emergence as an extremist all the more unnerving. The “hipster jihadi” was educated at the French Lycée in Heliopolis and speaks English and French as well as Arabic. He then went on to the prestigious Ain Shams University to study law. He was then obsessed with his body and, while a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, seemed largely secular in his outlook. After graduating law school, he appears to have taken a turn that none of his friends now understand. The student who once loved Western music and posting about how many calories are consumed by kissing is now trumping the “Caliphate” of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and posting gory pictures that Islamic State seems to relish of its victims. In one posting, Yakin showed two heads in a basket and jokingly compared to the heads of sheep that can be ordered for the table in some Egyptian restaurants.
He has been trying to convince his family to come to Raqqa, a city in Syria that the Islamic State has controlled and cleansed according to its view of Islam. When he told her that she could stay in this flat on the Euphrates and eat and drink and study,” he says she responded: “My son, what would happen if the owners of the flat came back? What will you do then?” Yaken then told her “not to worry – they are dead and gone.” A real hunkocidal catch.
Mothers are not the only people being recruited. Islamic State women are trying to recruit Western and European women and girls — apparently at the request of Islamic State men. Notably, these social websites targeting women do not show the signature gore of the Islamic State of hacked off body parts and corpses. That apparently is a turn-off for JihadDate. Instead it describes the paradise for women to be married to Jihadi and to be part of the community of “sisters” within Islamic State. They are told that they are not excepted to be martyrs but mothers. The “Bird of Jannah” explains: “Women are not equal to men. It can never be. Men are the leaders & women are [so] special that Allah has given them entire chapter in the Qur’an.”
One supposed English woman named Umm Layth gushes with delight about how “I will never be able to do justice with words as to how this place makes me feel.” She adds “Allahu Akbar, there’s no way to describe the feeling of sitting with the Akhawat [sisters] waiting on news of whose Husband has attained Shahadah [martyrdom].” The pitches have succeeded. Two teenage girls, 15 and 16, from Austria have gone to Syria for Jihadi marriages as did two 16-year-old British twins.
Just as a tip, girls, homicidal hunks like Yaken appear to prefer decapitating swords as gifts and their favorite subject is the Caliphate followed closely by the slaughtering of non-believers. As for the standard “likes”: beheadings, Shrine desecrations, and martyrdom. As for standard “dislikes”: Shia, human rights, and most art and music. Under the Islamic State’s view of Islam, you very incompatibility with with modern world makes you compatible — if not ideal — for a Mujahideen match up.
Karen, have a nice hot cup of tea, a splash of rum is always good too. Haven’t we discussed this ad nauseum on yesterday’s thread? I’m trying to fry up some Wiener Schnitzel here, for a special guest I’m having for dinner… No I don’t mean I’m having HIM for dinner… Oh never mind.
I don’t see how emergency air drops would help much, if the ruling party of a country is trying to kill you. Sure, you could eat while you waited for you and your kids to die. Unless the air drops contained weapons, I fail to see how they would be an actual solution.
So we will either stand by like weanies and watch 40,000 men, women, and children be slaughtered, dropping them rice and water while they wait at the slaughterhouse, or we’ll do something.
The US used to be a sleeping bear our enemies preferred not to annoy. Not any longer, thanks to Obama. Putin openly mocks us, and Obama, now.
Aaargh! Can’t take it anymore. The ignorance; it burns.
The VA is not single payer. It never has been. The VA hires it’s own doctors and directly provides the medical care itself. In other words: it’s socialized medicine. And it’s problems lie more in getting vets access to the care than it does in the care itself. If the VA were to pay doctors in private practice (the “solution” that is proposed) then it would be single payer.
Medicare is single payer.
Obamacare is the conservative option. It was born in the Koch brothers funded Heritage Foundation in the nineties. It was first implemented in Massachusetts by Republican Mitt Romney. The national version was drafted and implemented by Liz Fowler, a staffer of Max Baucus then HHS and formerly a lobbyist for Wellpoint Insurance. The only opposition it faced was from the Koch brothers’ funded Tea Party which drowned out any real criticism. All it had to do was show that it wouldn’t have death panels to kill grandma. Tough test, huh? And it was as staged an argument as any professional wrestling match.
Does anyone need to consult Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and ilk to figure out if the Heritage Foundation, Mitt Romney, the Koch brothers, and Insurance Industry lobbyists count as “liberals”?
Annie – you said there was no war on women. It was a war on the secular. Then you ended that there is a war on women.
Can you please make up your mind. Which is it?
And let me also point out that I am no obedient sheep, bleating a trained response. (Like the “war on women” bit.) Rush hasn’t told me what to think. Fox hasn’t told me what to think. I used my brain and researched it for myself, going to medical associations and the insurance commissioner for each state. And then I experienced it for myself. And I can actually do math.
Laser:
Where, you ask, do I get the idea that ACA takes health care away from the middle class? Well, you could ask Mike A, as my answers are indelibly imprinted on his brain.
But let me repeat. The ACA has been factually demonstrated to have dramatically increased the cost of health insurance for the middle class. It also dramatically decreased doctor availability, restricted coverage in many cases to specific counties (no more traveling to the best cancer hospital in your state anymore, like we could a mere 2 years ago). It dramatically tighter drug formularies, and any off formulary drug does NOT count towards your max caps or deductible.
So, to review, making unsubsidized health insurance far more expensive for the middle class takes health care away from them. Taking away their doctor that they trusted takes away health care from them. Taking their drugs off formulary, in some cases costing them thousands more a year on top of that astronomical deductible, takes health care away from them. Many more have had to drop their insurance entirely because they cannot buy food and insurance now. How many people do you think can pay as much for insurance as most do for a house? Is this seriously a question?
Any questions?
Gene, I just heard that too. Emergency airdrops sound good, but the air strikes, be very very careful. Hope it works.
Annie:
So if any employer brings suit because they don’t want to be forced to buy Obamacare policies that do late term abortions, that will be prohibited because it will open the door to school prayer?
Do you ever hear yourself?
Your entire argument is based on your own opinion that it is ethical to kill an embryo as long as it is tiny and hasn’t implanted yet. You do not allow for other people to have their own opinions.
Deal with a suit on its own merits. Either someone can be forced to pay for others to end the life of an embryo against his religious beliefs, or he can’t. He is allowed to have his day in court. He is allowed to fight for his opinion. Others may fight against policies that perform abortions after 21 weeks. Others after 30 weeks.
Mandating the morning after pill had this unintended consequence of making people pay for other people’s decisions. Suddenly, other people’s choices affect us personally.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if the government had stayed out of it, and it was up to individuals to follow their own conscience? If you wanted free abortions, you didn’t got the Little Sisters of the Poor, or work at a Catholic Hospital. If you want to be a female priest, you don’t become a Catholic. If you wanted to spread the Gospel you didn’t work for the Humanist Association.
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2014/july/two-falsehoods-on-single-payer
Karen;
Your logic askew – makes the points for U.S.
Where – on earth (other than Limbaugh) do you get the (facts) that ACA is taking healthcare away from middle class and giving it to the poor?
(forgetting for the moment – that the middle class are now poor)?
The very fact that you classify Liberals – instead of stating points/facts specific, you are engaging in the GOP playbook obfuscating 101.
I give you the logic pyramid of arguments genuine to inane.
Name calling being on the bottom of list.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement.svg/707px-Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement.svg.png
Gene:
Why is this president never prepared to act? Seriously. 40,000 people trapped on a mountain top and he’s wondering what to do? Doesn’t he know what to do? What is there to “weigh” or “mull over?” This is exactly why former military officials get so frustrated with his policies.
I certainly hope he puts his big boy pants on and helps them. Those poor people.
Karen, Hobby Lobby is using birth control to get their foot in the door of bringing back school prayer and teaching of Creationism. There is ample proof of that. They want corporations to be seen as human persons so they can spread their gospel, by compelling their employees abide by the corporation’s religious beliefs. As for the “war on religion”, per Gov.Jindal, baloney, its the opposite, as I said. As for the demonization of birth control and women who use it and the right to abortion, that is happening in every State legislature in the Country, that is also irrefutable. Hence the war on women.
When I GOOGLED “Hobby Lobby War on Women” I got 2,880,000 hits.
Annie, perhaps you should explain that Hobby Lobby is a war on the secular, despite your rhetoric about men wanting to control women’s access to health care. Apparently millions of Liberals didn’t get the message.
Paul;
Action speaks louder than words. Romney seeks to reform immigration, raise the minimum wage (remember – he owns much of the Press), was 70% favorite at the NH poll.
He is a RICO boss and pathetic liar.
For you – or anyone – to give credence to the premise that he’s not going to run in 2016 is obtuse to the fact that (the future G-d of another planet) had a vision/dream he’s going to ride a white horse into the white house.
He’ too big to jail – and too big to fail!
Laser – I am only reporting what he is currently up to. I voted for Mickey Mouse, remember?
“Karen hates single payer.”
Well, the VA is single payer and people died from deliberate fraud. 8 VA cardiologists do the work of a single private practice cardiologist. The solution has been put forward that vets should be allowed to go to private practice doctors.
Does that sound like a resounding vote of confidence for single payer to any reasonable person? Seriously, anyone who expects to repeat the same failed experiment, and expect a different result, is fooling themselves, and putting everyone else at risk.
As a woman, I am offended, and embarrassed for my sex, when Liberals trot out these obvious political ploys intended to manipulate us. It is patently absurd to claim that paying a copay for birth control equates to a war on women. That unless we have 20 choices of birth control, never before had on any insurance policy, that there is a war on women.
You know where there is a real war on women? In any country under Sharia Law. Women are actually repressed, abused, and murdered under Sharia Law in every single country where it is practiced.
Blithely declaring there is a war on women just to get your politics through belittles the victims of the real war on women.
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U.S. President Barack Obama is considering airstrikes and emergency relief airdrops to help 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq who are trapped
on a mountaintop after threats by Islamic militants (ISIS), the New York Times reported on Thursday.
Laser:
I, like most reasonable people, do NOT believe that taking health care AWAY from the middle class is a human solution to health care access to the poor.
Do you?
And, no, I do not give anyone a free pass, regardless of politics. I loudly and frequently denounced that GOP (senator, I think it was) who claimed that women’s bodies shut down conception during rape. He later “explained” that he was talking about how difficult it is to conceive under stress, and how people sometimes conceive after they adopt a child. It was a misstep that will go down in history as a whopper of a misstep.
Annie:
“And Karen the Hobby Lobby fiasco isn’t about a war on women, it’s about war on the secular.” Really? So all of your rhetoric about men wanting to control women’s womb’s was only about the secular? I must have misunderstood you.
And Slohrs, there will always be the dumb bunnies who find them sexy and want to marry them. There now back on topic!