ISIS in Iraq and Syria

It's my facebook cover photo. Sue me.

It might not make a tangible difference but so long as it brings attention to the issue and creates a sense of much-lacking solidarity and community amongst Iraqis (or even all Muslims/Arabs), then I don't see what the problem is.
What's it of? Peshmerga troops I assume ;)
 
It's my facebook cover photo. Sue me.

It might not make a tangible difference but so long as it brings attention to the issue and creates a sense of much-lacking solidarity and community amongst Iraqis (or even all Muslims/Arabs), then I don't see what the problem is.

Yeah, as I said it's better than nothing... still irritates me how a wimpy effort from the comfort behind a computer screen is considered as "support". Raising awareness is not support in my opinion. It will be forgotten as soon as the bandwagon has scrolled past.
 
What's it of? Peshmerga troops I assume ;)

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Yeah, as I said it's better than nothing... still irritates me how a wimpy effort from the comfort behind a computer screen is considered as "support". Raising awareness is not support in my opinion. It will be forgotten as soon as the bandwagon has scrolled past.

Wimpy effort? What would you have them do? Book one-way tickets to Iraq, pick up a rifle and join the fight? Its not exactly a 'bandwagon' since this conflict has had many serious implications for Iraqis living abroad who's families still reside in Mosul/Tikrit or anywhere at risk of ISIS infestation.
 
Wimpy effort? What would you have them do? Book one-way tickets to Iraq, pick up a rifle and join the fight? Its not exactly a 'bandwagon' since this conflict has had many serious implications for Iraqis living abroad who's families still reside in Mosul/Tikrit or anywhere at risk of ISIS infestation.

There's not much you can do except for arranging unheard protests. I have zero faith in politics.

I just think changing a profile picture in support of something has more to do with social legitimacy than anything else. The sense of "I've done my bit" whilst having done feck all is what gets me I think. Sorry if I offend you, I've been told I have very unpopular opinions about stuff, I stand by them however.
 
There's not much you can do except for arranging unheard protests. I have zero faith in politics.

I just think changing a profile picture in support of something has more to do with social legitimacy than anything else. The sense of "I've done my bit" whilst having done feck all is what gets me I think. Sorry if I offend you, I've been told I have very unpopular opinions about stuff, I stand by them however.

I'm not offended, I just think its Bizarre you'd get actively irritated at something like that :lol:
 
They've also been foricing Iraqis to give their daughters up to 'service' the ISIS fighters.

These feckers need to be be put down quickly, wouldn't mind Assad or the Iranians lending some firepower to do the job.
 
They've also been foricing Iraqis to give their daughters up to 'service' the ISIS fighters.

These feckers need to be be put down quickly, wouldn't mind Assad or the Iranians lending some firepower to do the job.

Send Hezbollah on these feckers! having said that, they are more interested in securing Lebanon at the moment.
 
They've also been foricing Iraqis to give their daughters up to 'service' the ISIS fighters.

These feckers need to be be put down quickly, wouldn't mind Assad or the Iranians lending some firepower to do the job.

Looks like the Kurds have so far been the most successful group in combating the ISIS, no?
 
Looks like the Kurds have so far been the most successful group in combating the ISIS, no?

Kurds aren't concerned about ISIS beyond their borders - they've been successful in forcing them out of Kirkuk and keeping them at bay, but it seems they couldn't care less with what they get up to beyond that. If anything, further escalation (from a safe distance) gives them more or a ripe opportunity to materialise their independence aspirations.
 
Sickening stuff, and this is being pushed under the rug for the flavour of the month tragedies in Israel and Gaza. The reports coming from here are equally alarming. I hope nothing comes off these demands from IS
 
ISIS blow up another important site in Mosul, this time one of the most important historical mosques in Nineveh, the mosque of prophet Yunus.



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From Wikipedia:
The Mosque of the Prophet Yunus (Jonah)

On one of the two most prominent mounds of Nineveh ruins, rises the Mosque (an Nestorian-Assyrian Church before) of prophet Younis "Biblical Jonah", the son of Amittai, from the 8th century BC which is believed to be the burial place of him, and where King Esarhaddon had once built a palace.

This old shrine standing on the site of a Christian church is a stone's throw from the built-up walls and gates of Nineveh. In the middle of the mosque stood a sepulcher, covered with a Persian carpet of silk and silver, and at the four corners, great copper candlesticks with wax tapers, besides several lamps and ostrich shells that hung down from the roof. A whale's tooth, appropriate to Jonah's well-known adventure at sea, is said to be preserved there.

It is one of the most important mosques in Mosul and one of the few historic mosques that are found in the east side of the city.

On July 24, 2014, the building was destroyed in an explosion by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
 
IS Orders Women Undergo Genital Mutilation in Iraq

Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation, which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged country, a U.N. official said Thursday.
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Feck. Me.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/140354-is-orders-women-undergo-genital-mutilation-in-iraq
I find this to be a pathetic fabrication. We don't need a hoax to prove how despicable these people are.
 
And Syria.

yup, mainly to secure the border. They have been pretty effective. I was speaking to a guy who's nephew is in the FSA, he said he had never fought against people as organised and dedicated as Hezbollah.
 
:lol: some of you guys believe anything you read if it's negative but if it's positive you look for a dozen excuses. IS aren't raping iraqi women and they aren't ordering women to be mutilated.
 
I find this to be a pathetic fabrication. We don't need a hoax to prove how despicable these people are.

:lol: some of you guys believe anything you read if it's negative but if it's positive you look for a dozen excuses. IS aren't raping iraqi women and they aren't ordering women to be mutilated.

When a story is reported by RT, Time, BBC, The Guardian, and the FT, it has to carry a certain degree of weight.

Make of it what you want.

But yeah it probably is fake...
 
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:lol: some of you guys believe anything you read if it's negative but if it's positive you look for a dozen excuses. IS aren't raping iraqi women and they aren't ordering women to be mutilated.

Name me anything positive ISIS has done.
 
Name me anything positive ISIS has done.
That's not his point. There's enough bad things to talk about without having to talk about stuff that is made up.

I hope...
 
That's not his point. There's enough bad things to talk about without having to talk about stuff that is made up.

I hope...

To be honest this is one of the rare occassions where I support the circulating of BS rumours such as this (assuming it is only a rumour). That way it would concern and outrage the many residents of Mosul who happily welcomed ISIS with open arms as a means to spite the Iraqi government. The bigger the outrage towards ISIS, the quicker we can purge them.
 
Where is the outrage from the Christian community?

Last weekend Isis gave the city's Christians a stark choice: convert to Islam, pay a religious tax, or face death. "They said there is no place for Christians in the Islamic state," one distraught refugee said from the safety of Bashiqa, 16 miles from Mosul. "Either you become Muslim or you leave." Mosul's last 1,500 Christian families were reportedly robbed at Isis checkpoints as they fled.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...tians-mosul-isis-convert-islam-or-be-executed
 
Has nobody smashed these twats yet? Has the Iraqi army been stopped in its tracks?
 
IS is an insult to actual Islam. I'm not religious at all but it makes me sick that these people think they are the holiest representation of Islam.

Has nobody smashed these twats yet? Has the Iraqi army been stopped in its tracks?

I thought the Iraqi army dropped their weapons and ran upon the arrival of ISIS.
 
IS is an insult to actual Islam. I'm not religious at all but it makes me sick that these people think they are the holiest representation of Islam.



I thought the Iraqi army dropped their weapons and ran upon the arrival of ISIS.
Exactly, what frustrate me is none of our religious leaders IMAMS etc challenge these sort of Islamic extremists.. Where the hell in Quran it says that kill innocent humans or your fellow Muslims, Shia/Suni - where In Quran it says that it's allowed to kill each other.. They claim to be the pure Muslims or the saviour of our religion (Islam) but reality is they are abusing our religion and believes.
Growing up as a Muslim they taught me in the mosque how to respect your parents, live in peace, never harm anyone. In fact there is a hadis from our prophet that " the one who's tongue and hands/arms don't harm other human is a complete Muslim"
 
No way these people are muslims. They should be nuked for what they're doing in Iraq.

In Islam, killing an other muslim is the quickest route to hell, and so is killing innocent christian people. They are destroying a christian heritage of 2000 years, I hope they are wiped out but unfortunately they are backed by the Saudi or/and Qatari takfiris.
 
They can't be wiped out without aid from foreign countries. Peshmerga have managed to hold their own so far but they really don't have the arms to completely wipe them out. Most of the weapons used by Kurdish forces are old Russian weapons whilst ISIS have used weapons seized from the Iraqi army that are superior.

There's been a lot of fighting in Jaloula with around 90 peshmerga martyred since fighting began. The area has been mostly cleared of ISIS forces but it's hard to keep them out. With all this new land being retaken by Kurds, it means the troops are more thinly spread out which makes it much harder.
 
Maliki has arrived in the Kurdish city of Slemani to visit Talabani. Not sure why he's been allowed into Kurdish areas, especially after his idiotic remarks about Kurds "harbouring terrorists". Maybe now he's in the region, the statement is true. ;)
 
Exactly, what frustrate me is none of our religious leaders IMAMS etc challenge these sort of Islamic extremists.. Where the hell in Quran it says that kill innocent humans or your fellow Muslims, Shia/Suni - where In Quran it says that it's allowed to kill each other.. They claim to be the pure Muslims or the saviour of our religion (Islam) but reality is they are abusing our religion and believes.
Growing up as a Muslim they taught me in the mosque how to respect your parents, live in peace, never harm anyone. In fact there is a hadis from our prophet that " the one who's tongue and hands/arms don't harm other human is a complete Muslim"

Many have gotten beheaded. The rest were put in order..all they need is a strong alternative but the west doesn't want that to happen. If one were to analyze the actions of isis it wouldn't take much to come to the conclusion that they're actually helping the western agenda.
 
Many have gotten beheaded. The rest were put in order..all they need is a strong alternative but the west doesn't want that to happen. If one were to analyze the actions of isis it wouldn't take much to come to the conclusion that they're actually helping the western agenda.

Yep, an Al-Qaeda terror state would obviously help the Western agenda.
 
Many have gotten beheaded. The rest were put in order..all they need is a strong alternative but the west doesn't want that to happen. If one were to analyze the actions of isis it wouldn't take much to come to the conclusion that they're actually helping the western agenda.

That's why I want our elders or leaders to come out and stand up against these animals - here in UK we have mosques/religious groups etc.. I almost every week argue with our mosque imam, why not you lot come out on radio or TV or gather us Muslims and make clear to the rest of the world what Islam means and what our religion stands for.. It's like we all moan about "western agenda" and no one wants to do anything about it.. It's a religion just like Christian or Jew etc we Muslim have our believes.. There is no place for violence or injustice in our religion, just like other religions.
 
Yep, an Al-Qaeda terror state would obviously help the Western agenda.
Yeah, not much, destroyed Iraq/Syria/Afghanistan.. Get hold of their resources oil etc .. Camp your Army in their soils.. Corrupt their government and turn it to puppet show, pleasing their masters while isolate Russia. Meanwhile Arm and fund terror and religious extremist like Al-Qaeda or ISIS. Na feck that all let's switch to BBC or CNN and listen to how in danger we are from the "terrorist". Absolute joke and mind feck, nothing else.
 
Yep, an Al-Qaeda terror state would obviously help the Western agenda.

An Al-Qaeda terror state bordering Iran and Syria would be the US's wet dream.

I think various Western powers appreciate that ISIS aren't going to ever be formidable enough to be a threat to them or their allies, so they're more than happy for them to just destabilise the region and put Iran, Syria and their allies in Iraq on edge.
 
An Al-Qaeda terror state bordering Iran and Syria would be the US's wet dream.

I think various Western powers appreciate that ISIS aren't going to ever be formidable enough to be a threat to them or their allies, so they're more than happy for them to just destabilise the region and put Iran, Syria and their allies in Iraq on edge.

The idea of an Al-Qaeda entity using a state to practice attacking the West with yet more 9/11 style attacks. Yep, makes perfect sense that the West would want that.