ISIS executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with fighters

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Stellar_Fungk said:

hiccupthehuman said:

Ugh this is disgusting. I really hate ISIS, especially when they seem to have a ''Our culture is superior'' and look down at us and our ''immoral actions'', yet things like this happen.

It's their muslim "brethren", kurds, yazidis and turkmens that gets "looked down on" and get butchered. The only westerners that get killed are the journalists. They can just leave middle east and go back home to their families. The others, on the other hand, have no place to go 'cause they're already at home. 

 

ISIS will never reach the west. We will never feel their brutality as the people in Middle East have.

Indeed. In the absence of western powers (I.e. a universal bogeyman in the region to draw their focus) those old Arab-Persian, Sunni-Shiite, Turks-Kurds... Basically everyone verse all others animosities that date back centuries reemerge. The Ottomans were able to deal with this via clever provincial structuring and keeping them mostly apart, but when the British and french chucked that idea and redrew the borders it's just been a simmering mess ever since, waiting to boil over.

This vacuum left by the Arab spring in Syria and US withdrawal from Iraq should surprise no one, but what DOES surprise me is just how unbelievably brutal this group is. Their end game seems to be the apocalypse, and there will be no treaties or "bringing them to the table" like there was with groups like the Taliban. They're blackmailing the world via creatively horrific acts to come fight them.