IS Mega Discussion Thread

[Big Boss]

ISIS executes 39 Indian workers

In shocking news, 39 of the 41 Indian construction workers, who were abducted by ISIS militants, have reportedly been executed.

The men, who were working for a Turkish construction company in Mosul, were abducted in mid-June when the jihadists overran the Iraqi region.


ABP News quoted two Bangladeshi construction workers as saying that they had met Harjeet Masih, the only Indian captive out of the group to escape from the clutches of the IS militants.

Harjeet reportedly informed them that he witnessed the execution of all his Indian co-workers.

The duo quoted by ABP News is believed to be part of the 51 Bangladeshis who were kidnapped along with the group of Indian workers.

The ABP News report said: 'The masked militants holding pistols and Qurans in their hands segregated the workers from both the companies in two groups. After scrutinizing the Bangladeshis and knowing about their faith, militants told them that they would be taken to Erbil soon. While the Indians were kept in a different who sensed they too would be released. Their mobiles and passports were all confiscated by the militants. All of them were given just one roti at 10 am during the entire day.'

'However, Harjeet told Shafi (one of the two Bangladeshis) that on June 15, they took all 40 Indians along with him to a hilly terrain where they were shot. Harjeet too suffered two bullet injuries but acted as if he was dead. To confirm that even Harjeet was dead, they kicked him, but since they didn’t observe any movement in his body they presumed that he was dead.'

The external affairs ministry is yet to verifying the killing.

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/isis-executes-39-indian-workers-tv-report/20141127.htm

 

[wasim-fan]

My guess is if as Muslim Shia you have no chance. Then as non Muslim you are pretty much screwed in hand of ISIS

 

[Bewal Express]

Evil Thugs- I hope the Americans bomb them to smithereens. There is no better way to honour Allah than to cherish his creations, and then there is no worse way to dishonor to than to murder innocent people.

 

[Bewal Express]

My guess is if as Muslim Shia you have no chance. Then as non Muslim you are pretty much screwed in hand of ISIS

To think that some cretins think that they are the saviours of muslims and Islam.

 

[AlCapone]

My guess is if as Muslim Shia you have no chance. Then as non Muslim you are pretty much screwed in hand of ISIS

Even Sunni Kurds and Sunni officers in the Iraqi army are also being killed.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Even Sunni Kurds and Sunni officers in the Iraqi army are also being killed.

Anyone who opposes them basically. Although I'm not sure how construction workers fall into this category.

 

[AlCapone]

Anyone who opposes them basically. Although I'm not sure how construction workers fall into this category.

They were probably non-Muslims and they probably didn't want to convert, or maybe ISIS suspected them to be spies.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

My guess is if as Muslim Shia you have no chance. Then as non Muslim you are pretty much screwed in hand of ISIS

I think in the vast majority of cases you are correct but we did have this unusual case earlier this year.....

Freed Kerala nurses say ISIS militants protected them in Iraq - See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world...rs/article1-1237169.aspx#sthash.EkVrMvDG.dpuf

 

[Tera Gawaandi]

They were probably non-Muslims and they probably didn't want to convert, or maybe ISIS suspected them to be spies.

Yes they were Sikhs, around 16 of them from same district Jallandhar in Punjab.

But this news is not confirmed and denied by MEA.

 

[ihsri aha]

Should Modi government be blamed for this /take credit for this ? [MENTION=29115]RexRex[/MENTION] [MENTION=135592]prayas[/MENTION] [MENTION=137084]sherlock89[/MENTION]

 

[ihsri aha]

^ thats Modi bhakts praised Modi Government for ISIS releasing 46 Indian nurses

 

[AmreekanDesi]

Back after a lifetime in IS


- Youth who ran away to Iraq from Mumbai returns home
SAMYABRATA RAY GOSWAMI

Arif Majeed
Mumbai, Nov. 28: Baptism, wedding, “death” and funeral — in the six months he spent as a soldier of the Islamic State, Arif Majeed of Maharashtra went through the rites of passage of a lifetime.

Arif, 22, and three friends — Fahad Sheikh, Aman Tabdel and Shaheem Tanki, all in their early twenties — had run away to Iraq on May 23 without informing their families.

Separated from his friends and given up for dead, Arif landed in Mumbai around 5.15am today and was taken to an undisclosed location for “interrogation”.

He has been allowed to meet his family, who too are under National Investigation Agency (NIA) protection, top sources in the agency told The Telegraph.

Arif was arrested late tonight following a Union home ministry clearance to the NIA to file an FIR against the final-year civil engineering student, reports PTI.

“Escorted” home by the NIA from Turkey, “disenchanted” with the IS, yet “highly radicalised” by the training he received in Iraq, “Arif is a bundle of contradictions right now”, a senior NIA officer told this newspaper.

“He has two bullet injuries and another wound that could be from some explosive. We did not rescue him: he contacted his family and asked to be rescued from Turkey,” the officer said.

“We do not yet know fully well how he managed to reach Turkey. He is not a criminal in our eyes yet — he is a misguided youth. So we are being gentle with him.”

The officer added: “But at the same time, we have to be careful about his sudden change of heart. He has shown no remorse: he has only acknowledged that he could not cut the mustard with the IS.”

Arif has allegedly told the NIA that he had been assigned “insignificant” jobs like “cleaning toilets and scavenging” and “guarding women who would be brought in to pleasure his IS bosses”.

“They want Indians but they think we are incapable of being on the battlefield and are better suited to other jobs,” an NIA source quoted Arif as saying.

Anti-terrorism squad officers in Mumbai who are working with the NIA say Arif’s “prime grouse is that he was not allowed by the IS leadership to get involved in direct combat”.

“We are trying to figure out whether he has returned to carry out any mission that will help him earn his stripes and get respect from his IS comrades, or whether he is truly disenchanted with the movement,” an officer said.

“Once they recruit someone, the IS does not easily let them go. First, because they want to guard all the information about the organisation and second, because it is a waste to let go of an indoctrinated asset who could be put to use in various ways. It is not easy to escape from the IS once they have recruited you,” the NIA officer said.

Arif has claimed to the NIA that he was horrified at the wild ways of the IS and so decided to return.

Distraught families

“We got a call from the NIA a little after 10am today, saying Arif was with them in Mumbai. They had brought him back from Turkey,” said a man who spoke to this newspaper over the phone on behalf of Arif’s family from their home at Kalyan in Thane district, about 45km from Mumbai. He would not give his name.

“Arif’s father will leave for Mumbai after offering his Friday prayers. It is a great day for the family — we thank the government for bringing home our misguided child,” the man added.

“Subah ka bhoola agar sham ko laute, usey bhoola nahin kahte (If someone who loses his way in the morning returns home in the evening, you don’t call him lost).”

Soon after, Arif’s family members as well as those of the other three youths seemed to have switched their phones off. Neighbours said their homes were locked.

On November 20, Arif had called his father Ejaz Majeed, a doctor, claiming he had escaped from Iraq and wanted to return.

Majeed, who had given up his son for dead, had been in constant touch with the NIA and the Union home ministry since Arif went missing in May. After receiving the call, he had immediately informed the authorities.

NIA sources said they traced the call to a city in Turkey and then, through diplomatic channels, tracked Arif and brought him back. By then, Arif had acquired a new name.

“He told us he was named Abu Ali Al Hindi on joining the IS militia — this is a ritual that every new entrant to the IS has to undergo,” an NIA source said.

He also “married” a Palestinian girl at a ceremony conducted by the IS. On August 26, a “sobbing” Shaheem Tanki had called his family and requested them to inform Arif’s parents that he had “died in a bomb blast”.

The next day, Arif’s broken parents performed a funeral service in their Sarvodaya Park residence. They held a ghaibana namaaz-e-janaza, or prayers for the departed soul in absence of the body. The service was attended by the families of the three other youths who had gone to Iraq.

The families of Arif, Fahad and Aman are neighbours at Sarvodaya Park, a middle-class residential complex in Kalyan West. All three youths were engineering students while Shaheem, a higher-secondary dropout, worked for a BPO.

“Shaheem did not stay here but we know the other families well. Arif’s sister is a doctor like her father,” said a Sarvodaya Park resident who had attended Arif’s funeral service in August.

“Fahad’s father is also a doctor, while Aman’s father is a central government employee. I have heard that Shaheem’s family owns a small business.”

The report of her son’s death had left Arif’s 48-year-old mother so shocked that she could not walk for months.

“She is still not okay completely,” said the neighbour, who added that Aman’s mother had not stepped out since May.

“She speaks to her son’s clothes all day. Fahad’s family too keep to themselves — all three families stick together.”

The journey

The four youths had “contacted the IS through Internet chat sites and were given instructions on whom to contact locally for facilitating their onward journey to Iraq…. We have some of those people in our net now,” an anti-terrorism squad officer said.

Arif’s journey to Iraq began on May 23 when he left home on the pretext of visiting a friend in Panvel. He later called up his mother saying he would be late as he was studying with his friend. He again called his father at night, saying he would sleep over at his friend’s place and return the next morning.

He did not return the next day and his phone remained switched off.

“Then in the evening, he called to say he was in Baghdad with three of his close friends from the locality and that he had joined a bunch of pilgrims to visit holy sites in Iraq and look for a job there,” said M.K. Taike of Bajarpeth police station in Kalyan, where the families of all the four youths had lodged missing persons reports.

On May 26, the four friends had hired a private taxi and left the pilgrim party to move onward to Fallujah, a hotbed of IS activity at the time. On May 29, the youths announced to their families that they had joined the IS. Soon after, they were separated.

Arif has told NIA officers that while Shaheem, Fahad and Aman chose to join the social media wing of the IS, he wanted to fight and opted to go to Mosul where heavy fighting was taking place.

A picture of Arif holding an AK-47 was posted on one of the pro-IS websites, NIA officers said.

“But he was given tasks like fetching water, cleaning, etc, which he found demeaning. He says he fled Mosul on a day of intense US air strikes on August 18,” an NIA officer said.

“The IS must have declared him dead to Fahad, Aman and Shaheem to keep his escape a secret. The three are most probably in Ar Raqqah — a town in Syria. But how Arif reached Turkey is a mystery. He has not given a convincing answer yet.”

 

[just saying]

^ such a shame that Arif managed to flee his Arab Masters. ISIS does not treat its defectors too kindly.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/56320

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

“He has two bullet injuries and another wound that could be from some explosive. We did not rescue him: he contacted his family and asked to be rescued from Turkey,” the officer said.

“We do not yet know fully well how he managed to reach Turkey. He is not a criminal in our eyes yet — he is a misguided youth. So we are being gentle with him.”

The officer added: “But at the same time, we have to be careful about his sudden change of heart. He has shown no remorse: he has only acknowledged that he could not cut the mustard with the IS.”

Arif has allegedly told the NIA that he had been assigned “insignificant” jobs like “cleaning toilets and scavenging” and “guarding women who would be brought in to pleasure his IS bosses”.

“They want Indians but they think we are incapable of being on the battlefield and are better suited to other jobs,” an NIA source quoted Arif as saying.

So how did he get two bullet wounds and an injury from an explosive if he considered unsuitable for a combat role and left to clean toilets and scavenging? Another strange story which seems to be an attempt to mimic similar news articles about a few British subjects returning home from Iraq and Syria.

 

[moumotta]

So how did he get two bullet wounds and an injury from an explosive if he considered unsuitable for a combat role and left to clean toilets and scavenging? Another strange story which seems to be an attempt to mimic similar news articles about a few British subjects returning home from Iraq and Syria.

Quite likely he was actually fighting for ISIS but May be trying to cover up now that he is back.


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[AmreekanDesi]

ISIS not fighting a holy war: Areeb Majeed confesses to NIA

Areeb Majeed, suspected member of terror outfit Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has revealed the names of the local contacts, who allegedly provided him the logistics to join the group to take part in the battle in Iraq, NIA officials said on Sunday.



Majeed also disclosed how he was completely sidelined by the terror group as he had been asked to carry out menial tasks like cleaning toilets or providing water to those on the battlefield, instead of being pushed into the warzone. "Majeed was today grilled for several hours when he revealed the names of the local contacts, who radicalized him and his three other friends here, and helped them fly to Iraq.
We are verifying his claims and are trying to locate these local contacts," a National Investigation Agency official said. However, the officer refused to divulge the names of the local supporters here saying it would derail the probe.

Asked for how many months he participated in the battle on the ground, the 23-year-old ISIS 'recruit' said he was completely ignored and asked to clean the toilets and arrange water for those battling with the security forces. He told the investigators that despite his immediate supervisor's request, the ISIS cadres did not allow him to participate in the battle. His resolve to take part in the war weakened after he was left unattended for his bullet injury for three days before being taken to a hospital, he told them.

"Only after I begged them, I was taken to a hospital. I was treating myself, but the injury was worsening as there was no proper medication or food available in the camps," Majeed told investigators. "There was neither a holy war nor any of the preachings in the holy book were followed. ISIS fighters raped many a woman there," Majeed said while responding to one of the questions, an NIA official said. Admitting that he and his three friends from Kalyan underwent training on handling of sophisticated AK 47 and rocket launchers, Majeed claimed the Indians were considered to be physically weak.

Majeed was arrested on Friday on his return to Mumbai after spending nearly six months in Iraq. He was booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on charges of conspiring to commit a terrorist act and being a member of a banned foreign terror outfit, and under the stringent Section 125 of the IPC for "waging war against the nation".

 

[Gabbar Singh]

The chap from Mumbai's story doesn't add up. Foreign media reports also paint a different picture.

Indian jihadist ‘kills 55 for ISIS, quits because no pay’

An Islamic State recruit from Greater Mumbai was intercepted in Turkey, and then interrogated and arrested by India’s secret service. Suspected of killing up to 55 people, he allegedly left because they didn’t pay enough, India’s media reported.

http://rt.com/news/210091-isis-india-recruit-quit-arrested/

Send him back to Iraq and let the authorities there deal with him.

 

[OZGOD]

ISIS Leader Ibrahim's wife arrested in Lebanon

Caliph Ibrahim al-Baghdadi's wife has been arrested in Lebanon.

(CNN) -- Lebanese authorities have arrested the wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi -- the man spearheading the Islamist terror group's sweeping rampage across Syria and Iraq -- said a source with knowledge of the arrest, describing her as a "powerful figure (who is) heavily involved in ISIS."

The woman detained is one of al-Baghdadi's two wives. Her arrest came as part of a "planned operation," according to the source.

Agence France-Presse, citing unidentified Lebanese security officials, reported one of al-Baghdadi's sons was detained as well. But Reuters, also citing Lebanese officials, said that a daughter, rather than a son, was being held.

The detentions took place near Lebanon's border with Syria when they tried to enter the country, according to those reports.

No details were available on the names or nationalities of the woman or the daughter or son, nor is it clear how many children al-Baghdadi might have. Lebanese authorities didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/02/world/meast/lebanon-isis-leader-family/

I guess ISIS might step up attacks in Lebanon now?

 

[RickyG]

Well done to the Lebanese Intelligence/Authorities.

 

[CricketCartoons]

The thread title should be changed. al Baghdadi is no Caliph. and the only people who see him as one are the terrorists like boko haraam and al shabab.

 

[Sakss]

This will get interesting now

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Iran bombs Isis targets in Iraq, says Pentagon

Washington and Tehran say strikes were not coordinated with US-led coalition against Islamic State

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/03/iran-bombs-isis-in-iraq-says-us

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Iran and America are desperate to portray this as an uncoordinated attack however it seems unlikely that Iranian jets could enter eastern Iraqi airspace without the say so of the yanks.

 

[mithun_minhas]

ISIS not fighting a holy war: Areeb Majeed confesses to NIA

Areeb Majeed, suspected member of terror outfit Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has revealed the names of the local contacts, who allegedly provided him the logistics to join the group to take part in the battle in Iraq, NIA officials said on Sunday.

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Majeed also disclosed how he was completely sidelined by the terror group as he had been asked to carry out menial tasks like cleaning toilets or providing water to those on the battlefield, instead of being pushed into the warzone. "Majeed was today grilled for several hours when he revealed the names of the local contacts, who radicalized him and his three other friends here, and helped them fly to Iraq.
We are verifying his claims and are trying to locate these local contacts," a National Investigation Agency official said. However, the officer refused to divulge the names of the local supporters here saying it would derail the probe.

Asked for how many months he participated in the battle on the ground, the 23-year-old ISIS 'recruit' said he was completely ignored and asked to clean the toilets and arrange water for those battling with the security forces. He told the investigators that despite his immediate supervisor's request, the ISIS cadres did not allow him to participate in the battle. His resolve to take part in the war weakened after he was left unattended for his bullet injury for three days before being taken to a hospital, he told them.

"Only after I begged them, I was taken to a hospital. I was treating myself, but the injury was worsening as there was no proper medication or food available in the camps," Majeed told investigators. "There was neither a holy war nor any of the preachings in the holy book were followed. ISIS fighters raped many a woman there," Majeed said while responding to one of the questions, an NIA official said. Admitting that he and his three friends from Kalyan underwent training on handling of sophisticated AK 47 and rocket launchers, Majeed claimed the Indians were considered to be physically weak.

Majeed was arrested on Friday on his return to Mumbai after spending nearly six months in Iraq. He was booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on charges of conspiring to commit a terrorist act and being a member of a banned foreign terror outfit, and under the stringent Section 125 of the IPC for "waging war against the nation".

Cleaning toilets and carrying towels, considered Physically weak,.... Looks like some one wants to get out with minimum punishment.

 

[Saeed]

Iran and America are desperate to portray this as an uncoordinated attack however it seems unlikely that Iranian jets could enter eastern Iraqi airspace without the say so of the yanks.

Why would they need the permission of U.S. I am sure the shia government in Iraq is happy with Iran to conduct air strikes or do whatever as long as its on the north western side of Baghdad.

 

[Thivagar]

Well made documentary. Worth watching.

 

[Saeed]

Well made documentary. Worth watching.

Is that guy a Pakistani? Just wondering since the guy with him is wearing Shalwar Kameez.

 

[speed]

Is that guy a Pakistani? Just wondering since the guy with him is wearing Shalwar Kameez.

doubt it probably lebanese.

 

[Thivagar]

Is that guy a Pakistani? Just wondering since the guy with him is wearing Shalwar Kameez.

Not Pakistani but forgot lol. His dad was a military officer in a middle eastern country. The guy in white clothes was a former Australian super featherweight champion he too joined Isis later on.

 

[Noman]

Old news.. But still interesting.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-l...y-israeli-mossad-nsa-documents-reveal/5391593

he former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Snowden said intelligence services of three countries created a terrorist organisation that is able to attract all extremists of the world to one place, using a strategy called “the hornet’s nest”.

NSA documents refer to recent implementation of the hornet’s nest to protect the Zionist entity by creating religious and Islamic slogans.

According to documents released by Snowden, “The only solution for the protection of the Jewish state “is to create an enemy near its borders”.

Leaks revealed that ISIS leader and cleric Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi took intensive military training for a whole year in the hands of Mossad, besides courses in theology and the art of speech.

 

[niishaa]

Single Islamic State militant 'has killed 150 women and girls' because they refused to marry members of the terrorist group


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2878693/Single-Islamic-State-militant-killed-150-women-girls-refused-marry-members-terrorist-group.html

 

[Gabbar Singh]

 

[Gabbar Singh]

It's a hoax.

Inside jobs and Israeli stooges: why is the Muslim world in*thrall to conspiracy theories?

The “We’ve been lied to” argument goes only so far. Scepticism may be evidence of a healthy and independent mindset; but conspiracism is a virus that feeds off insecurity and bitterness.

BY*MEHDI HASAN*PUBLISHED*5 SEPTEMBER, 2014 - 12:29

Did you know that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis, was trained by Mossad and the CIA? Were you aware that his real name isn’t Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai but Simon Elliot? Or that he’s a Jewish actor who was recruited by the Israelis to play the part of the world’s most wanted terrorist?

If the messages in my email in-box and my Twitter timeline and on my Facebook page are anything to go by, plenty of Muslims are not only willing to believe this nonsensical drivel but are super-keen to share it with their friends. The bizarre claim that NSA documents released by Edward Snowden “prove” the US and Israel are behind al-Baghdadi’s actions has gone viral.

There’s only one problem. “It’s utter BS,” Glenn Greenwald, the investigative journalist who helped break the NSA story, told me. “Snowden never said anything like that and no [NSA] documents suggest it.” Snowden’s lawyer, Ben Wizner, has called the story a hoax.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...s-why-muslim-world-thrall-conspiracy-theories

Old news.. But still interesting.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-l...y-israeli-mossad-nsa-documents-reveal/5391593

he former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Snowden said intelligence services of three countries created a terrorist organisation that is able to attract all extremists of the world to one place, using a strategy called “the hornet’s nest”.

NSA documents refer to recent implementation of the hornet’s nest to protect the Zionist entity by creating religious and Islamic slogans.

According to documents released by Snowden, “The only solution for the protection of the Jewish state “is to create an enemy near its borders”.

Leaks revealed that ISIS leader and cleric Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi took intensive military training for a whole year in the hands of Mossad, besides courses in theology and the art of speech.

 

[OZGOD]

Looks like one of the Japanese hostages has been executed. Tokyo didn't pay the $200m ransom demanded by ISIS.

Video purports to show Japanese hostage beheaded by Islamic State

Published: January 25, 2015 - 7:05AM

Japan is scrambling to verify a video posted online claiming that one of two men held hostage by Islamic State jihadists has been executed, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe condemned the militant's "intolerable violence".

Abe called an emergency meeting of senior ministers as his government demanded "the remaining" hostage be immediately set free.

"A photograph apparently showing Haruna Yukawa had been murdered has been posted on the internet," Abe said.

"The pain the family is feeling must be beyond what what we imagine. This is an act of terrorism and intolerable violence.

"I am infuriated. I condemn it absolutely. Again I strongly demand they not harm Mr Goto and release him."

"The images show Kenji Goto holding a photo of Haruna Yukawa apparently dead has been posted on the internet," Abe's chief spokesman Yoshihide Suga told a press conference shortly after midnight.

The government is currently working to confirm the authenticity of the video, added defence chief Gen Nakatani.

The video was not posted on any of the IS group's official channels and it does not bear the group's black and white flag. The purported execution of Yukawa is also not shown.

Several supporters of the IS group on social media channels have contested the veracity of the video, while Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said negotiations for the two men's release are still ongoing.

"We have seen the video purporting to show that Japanese citizen Haruna Yukawa has been murdered by the terrorist group ISIL. The intelligence community is working to confirm its authenticity," the US National Security Council deputy spokesman Patrick Ventrell said in a statement, using alternative acronyms for the militant group.

If Yukawa's death is confirmed, it would mark a very grave turn of events for Japan, which has been on edge since the Islamic State group released a video on Tuesday demanding a $US200 million ransom within 72 hours.

There had been no news of the fate of freelance journalist Goto or self-employed contractor Yukawa since the deadline expired on Friday.

The jihadist group, which rules large swathes of Iraq and Syria under a strict form of Islamic law, has murdered five Western hostages since August last year but this is the first time it has threatened Japanese captives.

Emotional appeal

Junko Ishido, Goto's mother, on Friday launched an emotional appeal begging for mercy for her son.

"I say to you people of the Islamic State, Kenji is not your enemy. Please release him," she said.

Japanese officials have repeatedly said they are trying to make contact through various channels.

Yosuke Isozaki, an advisor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on Friday reportedly said there had been some "indirect" communication with the militants, but "nothing direct".

Tokyo has little diplomatic leverage in the Middle East, but local media say Abe may try to use his close relationship with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to rescue the hostages.

Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported Saturday that Jordan has also tried to contact the Islamic State through influential religious leaders in Amman.

The Islamists linked their $200 million ransom demand to the amount Abe said he would earmark to help countries dealing with the influx of refugees fleeing fighting between IS militants and regular forces.

Tokyo is under pressure from Britain and the United States to stand firm on the group's cash demands, as both countries have a policy of never paying ransoms.

Broadcaster NHK on Friday quoted a "public relations" official from the Islamic State group describing the Japanese as "infidels" for supporting efforts to stop them.

The Japanese media has rallied around Goto, a respected and experienced war reporter whose work has appeared on domestic television channels.

In video footage he filmed around the time he entered Syria, he holds identification papers and his Japanese passport and explains that he is aware of the risks.

"Whatever happens, I am the one who is responsible," he says. "I am asking you, Japanese people, do not place responsibility on the people of Syria. Please. I am sure I will come back alive though."

Wires

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/video-p...eheaded-by-islamic-state-20150125-12xm6k.html

 

[TSA321]

Five Portuguese footballers in London convert to Islam then join ISIS, lol.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-ISIS-Syria-linked-Jihadi-John.html#comments

 

[Saeed]

Five Portuguese footballers in London convert to Islam then join ISIS, lol.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-ISIS-Syria-linked-Jihadi-John.html#comments

What was their motivation? Them seem like blood thirsty individuals, who want to just take some lives just like that american scum Chris Kyle. Hopefully the kurds will send them to hell just like countless others.

 

[TSA321]

What was their motivation? Them seem like blood thirsty individuals, who want to just take some lives just like that american scum Chris Kyle. Hopefully the kurds will send them to hell just like countless others.

No idea, they just seem like the low IQ gullible type.

 

[equivoque]

Very worried about the fate of Yazidi people, especially women. They have a beautiful pagan culture very much like us Hindus.

 

[Saeed]

TTP's scum pledging allegiance to Daesh.

 

[dzor]

yazidi culture intrigues me, i hate what these monsters are doing to it, man i hope for the safety of the women of the yazidi, iraq seems like a very bad place.

 

[Thivagar]

What was their motivation? Them seem like blood thirsty individuals, who want to just take some lives just like that american scum Chris Kyle. Hopefully the kurds will send them to hell just like countless others.

Probably realized that they are lousy footballers, and they weren't gonna get the money,women, attention and etc so they became ISIS.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Shiite militiamen entered Barwana on Monday and allegedly selected young men after checking their IDs before lining them up to be shot.

- Hiding in orchards -

"Cars filled with men carrying mostly light weapons entered the village. They gathered all the people in one place, including some children," said Nahda al-Daini, a lawmaker from Diyala.

"They executed 77 of them," she told AFP. "It was Shiite militia forces who carried out this massacre with cover from the security forces."

i Juburi, a 27-year-old father of one, fled to Barwana from nearby Hamada village in June, when IS jihadists swept through swathes of Iraq.

He said that when the fighters entered the village, some men were taken to one side.

"They were still checking some names when we heard shooting and women screaming," he told AFP by phone.

"The mukhtar (village chief) went to a house where killings happened. He found 35 bodies in one place and there were about 40 other bodies nearby," he said.

"He came back and told us to leave everything behind and run because they would kill us. So we ran to an orchard, hid and walked. I eventually reached Muqdadiyah at 1:00 am," Juburi said.

Jamal Mohamed, a teacher who has been compiling names of the victims, said he knew of 71 people who had been executed on Monday but added that a few more were still missing.

"There were four boys aged nine to 12 among the victims, but no women nor girls," he said.

He added that to his knowledge only 12 of the victims had been buried, while the other bodies had been taken by government elite forces to an unknown location.

http://news.yahoo.com/survivors-accuse-shiite-militia-iraq-village-massacre-161937197.html

Looks like Iraq is still locked in an eye for an eye situation.

 

[Saeed]

Staff like that will only make the sunnis join some sunni militias. Iraqi government seems to have no control over majority of its land and must resign to bring peace in Iraq. They need to install a government, who works for the interests of Iraqis not America.

 

[OZGOD]

The Jordanian pilot captured by ISIS when his plane went down in ISIS territory has apparently been burned alive whilst in a cage. I don't know if any of you saw the video ISIS put up - I just saw the stills from it and it's pretty disgusting.

Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh burnt alive by Islamic State: SITE group

Zaid Sabah
Published: February 4, 2015 - 7:14AM

Islamic State militants released a video on Tuesday purporting to show a captive Jordanian pilot being burnt alive, and Jordanian state television said he was murdered a month ago.

The video posted by the jihadist group showed a man resembling the captive pilot standing in a black cage before being set ablaze, according to Maryland-based analysis firm SITE Intel Group.

The footage could not immediately be independently verified.

The pilot, Maaz al-Kassasbeh, was captured by Islamic State insurgents after his plane crashed over Syria while on a bombing mission against the group in December.

The death prompted King Abdullah to cut short his visit to the United States. while the Jordanian goverment vowed to avenge the pilot's death.

"The revenge will be as big as the calamity that has hit Jordan," army spokesman Colonel Mamdouh al Ameri said in a televised statement confirming the death of the pilot. He said Jordan would deliver a "strong, earth-shaking and decisive" response.

Jordan also confirmed that on Wednesday it will execute a woman on death row over a failed bombing. "The sentence of death pending on... Iraqi Sajida al-Rishawi will be carried out at dawn," the security official said on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Rishawi, the Iraqi would-be suicide bomber, was condemned to death for her participation in deadly attacks in Amman in 2005, and IS had offered to spare the life of the Jordanian fighter pilot, Lieutenant Maaz al-Kassasbeh, if she were released.

The pilot's fate has gripped Jordan and provoked rare protests against King Abdullah over the government's handling of the case.

US President Barack Obama said the video, if real, would redouble the determination of a US-led alliance to degrade and destroy Islamic State. He said it would be another sign of the "viciousness and barbarity" of the militants.

"Whatever ideology they're operating off of, it's bankrupt," Obama told reporters.

In the video, the burned man wore orange clothes similar to those worn by other foreign Islamic State captives who have been killed since a US-led coalition started bombing the militants in July.

Islamic State has released videos showing the beheadings of several Western hostages and said that it has killed two Japanese captives.

The militants have come under increased military pressure from air strikes and a push by Kurdish and Iraqi troops to reverse their territorial gains in Iraq and Syria.

In the video, al-Kassasbeh is interviewed, describing the mission he was due to carry out before his jet crashed. The video also showed footage of the aftermath of air strikes, with people trying to remove civilians from debris.

A man resembling al-Kassasbeh is shown inside the cage with his clothes dampened, apparently with flammable liquid, and one of the masked fighters holds a torch, setting alight a line of fuel which leads into the cage.

The man is set ablaze and kneels to the ground.

Fighters then pour debris, including broken masonry, over the cage which a bulldozer then flattens, with the body still inside. The video showed a desert setting similar to previous videos of killings.

Jordan had been demanding the release of al-Kassasbeh in exchange for an Iraqi woman Islamic State was seeking to swap for Japanese hostage Kenji Goto. The beheading of Goto, a veteran war reporter, was shown in a video released by Islamic State on Saturday.

The Iraqi woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, is jailed in Jordan for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb attack that killed 60 people in the Jordanian capital Amman.

Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/world/jordani...islamic-state-site-group-20150204-135cm6.html

 

[Markhor]

These barbarians continue to stoop to new depths of depravity.

 

[Markhor]

This comes days after they tied an alleged bisexual man to a chair and threw him off a building before stoning him to death. Its no wonder Islam continues to be dragged through the mud when these devils are roaming the earth committing their acts of medieval savagery.

 

[Rizwan25]

I still don't understand where do they get funding to finance all their operations?

 

[OZGOD]

I still don't understand where do they get funding to finance all their operations?

They sell oil from those Syrian and Iraqi oilfields and there was a ton of money in the bank vaults of Mosul when they took the city. And I, sure there are various donors around the world.


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[OZGOD]

This comes days after they tied an alleged bisexual man to a chair and threw him off a building before stoning him to death. Its no wonder Islam continues to be dragged through the mud when these devils are roaming the earth committing their acts of medieval savagery.

Why was he burned alive instead of beheaded like they usually do? Is it because he was Muslim? Does death by burning hold some special significance in Islam?

 

[Markhor]

Why was he burned alive instead of beheaded like they usually do? Is it because he was Muslim? Does death by burning hold some special significance in Islam?

Certainly not, these animals probably wanted to prolong the agony for this man and send out a message to everyone in the community that this is their fate if they resist them. It feels like we're back to the Roman Coliseum days.

 

[Dios]

These animals deserve the Saddams and the Gaddafis.

 

[chacha kashmiri]

Female suicide wannabe bomber executed by Jordan
Lieberman congratulates king Abdullah


UAE has pulled out of coalition bombing of ISIS since the horrific execution of the pilot

 

[Saeed]

Jordan has said that they will increase the airstrikes. So they are not willing to help Palestinians that are right next to them but will gladly bomb innocent harmless people. Israel's neighbors learned well from them.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Jordan has said that they will increase the airstrikes. So they are not willing to help Palestinians that are right next to them but will gladly bomb innocent harmless people. Israel's neighbors learned well from them.

Not willing to help the Palestinians? What do you call giving refuge to more than 2 million Palestinians? And unlike refugees elsewhere in the world Jordan has granted almost all of them full citizenship. And now they have granted refuge to 3/4 million Syrians. They are one of the most hospitable nations on earth. Comparing them to Israel is ludicrous.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Why was he burned alive instead of beheaded like they usually do? Is it because he was Muslim? Does death by burning hold some special significance in Islam?

I doubt it, even Al Qaida are throwing their arms up in horror. It seems like a bid to outrage world opinion and galvanise military and media opposition from all quarters. Maybe it's a mass suicide pact.

 

[Fire Bird]

ISIS = Al-qaeda = Taliban = CIA = USA = NATO = West = Israel = Zionism = Globalist Elite

 

[Strike Rate]

Picture of Moaz al-Kasasbeh he was burnt alive by ISIS

Spoiler

 

[TSA321]

British Pakistani jihadist who faked his own death in Syria is jailed for 12 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31166062

 

[OZGOD]

Jordan has said that they will increase the airstrikes. So they are not willing to help Palestinians that are right next to them but will gladly bomb innocent harmless people. Israel's neighbors learned well from them.

This statement confuses me (apologies, I'm easily confused). Which innocent people are we referring to? ISIS?

Also you need to educate yourself regarding Jordan and the Palestinians.

More than 2 million registered Palestine refugees live in Jordan.

Most Palestine refugees in Jordan, but not all, have full citizenship. There are ten recognized Palestine refugee camps throughout the country, which accommodate nearly 370,000 Palestine refugees, or 18 per cent of the country total. Jordan hosts the largest number of Palestine refugees of all of the UNWRA fields.

http://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/jordan

Unless by "helping the Palestinians" you mean declaring war on Israel, something no Arab nation has done since 1973?

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

US has more or less given their blessing for Iranian militias to take over the defence of Iraq in the war against Isis and is supporting them with air strikes. I wonder how that will play out in the long run in the sectarian positioning for power in the region, especially considering these militias have been accused of committing atrocities which rival Isis in their barbarity.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articl...e-iran-s-militias-are-taking-over-iraq-s-army

 

[Saeed]

This statement confuses me (apologies, I'm easily confused). Which innocent people are we referring to? ISIS?

Also you need to educate yourself regarding Jordan and the Palestinians.



Unless by "helping the Palestinians" you mean declaring war on Israel, something no Arab nation has done since 1973?

Millions of people living among ISIS or is ISIS sitting somewhere in park telling Jordan to come bomb them. I guess by increasing strikes, they mean they have found more targets (at least more targets after the Pilot was killed). So if they have more targets, why wasn't Jordon striking them already? Either way, this way of fighting is clearly not working because that is, what U.S. has been doing since the war of spreading terrorism started.

 

[OZGOD]

Millions of people living among ISIS or is ISIS sitting somewhere in park telling Jordan to come bomb them. I guess by increasing strikes, they mean they have found more targets (at least more targets after the Pilot was killed). So if they have more targets, why wasn't Jordon striking them already? Either way, this way of fighting is clearly not working because that is, what U.S. has been doing since the war of spreading terrorism started.

I would suggest that their increased airstrikes mean increased participation, rather than some bloke sitting in an office trying to find more targets to hit. Pretty sure they had their arms twisted to participate in the first place, but the murder of the pilot (and more to the point the way he was murdered) has turned public opinion in Jordan the other way.

I agree that airstrikes can't kill an ideology. But what they can do is degrade infrastructure in a land war, which ISIS is involved in. They can decapitate leadership. But end of day it's not going to solve the problem, which to be honest I doubt can be solved. How do you negotiate with people who can't be negotiated with (on either side)?

 

[shaykh]

A few articles around discussing the use of child soldiers, taking child sex slaves and killing off children by IS as reported by the UN...

Needs clarification...IS are not targeting anyone below the age of 12, recruiting anyone under 12 nor sexually enslaving anyone below the age of 12...

What we deem as children isnt what IS and traditional Islamic thought regards as children...unlike some African conflicts where there is a deliberate attempt to recruit children IS do not view their child soldiers as child soldiers but as men...and this has an Islamic basis...

Banu Qurayza for instance...all the male members of the tribe were executed and Sahih hadith show that determining who was to be executed was based on whether the male possessed pubic hair or not...

Women and children in history have generally been enslaved...

Women as adults we know from Muhammad marrying Aisha...she was post pubescent but not what the UN would class as an adult...the taking of concubines has been a part of Islamic practice for the majority of the last 1400 years during conflict...so whilst it is framed as sexual slavery now this is not a practice specific to IS but prevalent in Islamic history and in fairness a lot of old school history...

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, and killing other youth, including by crucifixion or burying them alive, a United Nations watchdog said on Wednesday.

Iraqi boys aged under 18 are increasingly being used by the militant group as suicide bombers, bomb makers, informants or human shields to protect facilities against U.S.-led air strikes, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said.

“We are really deeply concerned at torture and murder of those children, especially those belonging to minorities, but not only from minorities,” committee expert Renate Winter told a news briefing. “The scope of the problem is huge.”

Children from the Yazidi sect or Christian communities, but also Shi’ites and Sunnis, have been victims, she said.

“We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding,” Winter told Reuters. “There was a video placed (online) that showed children at a very young age, approximately eight years of age and younger, to be trained already to become child soldiers.”

Islamic State is a breakaway al Qaeda group that declared an Islamic caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq last summer. It has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes, in what the United Nations has called a reign of terror.

On Tuesday, the group, which is also known as ISIL, released a video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive.

The U.N. body, which reviewed Iraq’s record for the first time since 1998, denounced “the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities by the so-called ISIL, including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive”.

A large number of children have been killed or badly wounded during air strikes or shelling by Iraqi security forces, while others had died of “dehydration, starvation and heat”, it said.

ISIL has committed “systematic sexual violence”, including “the abduction and sexual enslavement of children”, it said.

“Children of minorities have been captured in many places... sold in the market place with tags, price tags on them, they have been sold as slaves,” Winter said, giving no details.


The 18 independent experts who worked on the report called on Iraqi authorities to take all necessary measures to “rescue children” under the control of Islamic State and to prosecute perpetrators of crimes.

“There is a duty of a state to protect all its children. The point is just how are they going to do that in such a situation?”, Winter said.

 

[OZGOD]

A few articles around discussing the use of child soldiers, taking child sex slaves and killing off children by IS as reported by the UN...

Needs clarification...IS are not targeting anyone below the age of 12, recruiting anyone under 12 nor sexually enslaving anyone below the age of 12...

What we deem as children isnt what IS and traditional Islamic thought regards as children...unlike some African conflicts where there is a deliberate attempt to recruit children IS do not view their child soldiers as child soldiers but as men...and this has an Islamic basis...

Banu Qurayza for instance...all the male members of the tribe were executed and Sahih hadith show that determining who was to be executed was based on whether the male possessed pubic hair or not...

Women and children in history have generally been enslaved...

Women as adults we know from Muhammad marrying Aisha...she was post pubescent but not what the UN would class as an adult...the taking of concubines has been a part of Islamic practice for the majority of the last 1400 years during conflict...so whilst it is framed as sexual slavery now this is not a practice specific to IS but prevalent in Islamic history and in fairness a lot of old school history...

According to the pamphlet that ISIS distributed titled (Su'al wa-Jawab fi al-Sabi wa-Riqab or "Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves"), it clarifies the position of Islamic law (as ISIS interprets it) on various relevant issues, and states, among other things, that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with non-Muslim slaves, including young girls, and that it is also permitted to beat them and trade in them.

"Question 13: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female slave who has not reached puberty?
"It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn't reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse; however if she is not fit for intercourse, then it is enough to enjoy her without intercourse."

http://www.memrijttm.org/islamic-state-isis-releases-pamphlet-on-female-slaves.html

What is ambiguous is how they define "fit for intercourse".

 

[shaykh]

According to the pamphlet that ISIS distributed titled (Su'al wa-Jawab fi al-Sabi wa-Riqab or "Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves"), it clarifies the position of Islamic law (as ISIS interprets it) on various relevant issues, and states, among other things, that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with non-Muslim slaves, including young girls, and that it is also permitted to beat them and trade in them.



What is ambiguous is how they define "fit for intercourse".

Goodness me...as if the traditional rule wasn't bad enough...just to clarify...I attack Islam a lot on here but this ruling has no traditional basis...

You can marry a prepubescent child but can only have intercourse once they have hit puberty...ie to my understanding 'fit for intercourse' is determined by whether she has hit puberty or not...

I don't actually understand what this answer means...much like yourself I don't understand what fit for intercourse means as defined by them...

This part is also ambiguous...'then it is enough to enjoy her without intercourse'...

In terms of using force...it has its limits...and is a last resort...this is the traditional view...this is tafsir by ibn kathir analyzing verse 4:34...

Verse 4:34 says:

Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband's] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance - [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted and Grand.

The tafsir:

1) Tafsir of 4:34

'As to those women on whose part you see ill conduct,) meaning, the woman from whom you see ill conduct with her husband, such as when she acts as if she is above her husband, disobeys him, ignores him, dislikes him, and so forth. When these signs appear in a woman, her husband should advise her and remind her of Allah's torment if she disobeys him. Indeed, Allah ordered the wife to obey her husband and prohibited her from disobeying him, because of the enormity of his rights and all that he does for her. The Messenger of Allah said,'

If I were to command anyone to prostrate before anyone, I would have commanded the wife to prostrate before her husband, because of the enormity of his right upon her.) Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said,

If the man asks his wife to come to his bed and she declines, the angels will keep cursing her until the morning.) Muslim recorded it with the wording,

If the wife goes to sleep while ignoring her husband's bed, the angels will keep cursing her until the morning.) This is why Allah said,

As to those women on whose part you see ill conduct, admonish them (first)). Allah's statement,

(abandon them in their beds,) `Ali bin Abi Talhah reported that Ibn `Abbas said "The abandonment refers to not having intercourse with her, to lie on her bed with his back to her.'' Several others said similarly. As-Suddi, Ad-Dahhak, `Ikrimah, and Ibn `Abbas, in another narration, added, "Not to speak with her or talk to her.'' The Sunan and Musnad compilers recorded that Mu`awiyah bin Haydah Al-Qushayri said, "O Allah's Messenger! What is the right that the wife of one of us has on him'' The Prophet said,

o feed her when you eat, cloth her when you buy clothes for yourself, refrain from striking her face or cursing her, and to not abandon her, except in the house.) Allah's statement,

beat them) means, if advice and ignoring her in the bed do not produce the desired results, you are allowed to discipline the wife, without severe beating. Muslim recorded that Jabir said that during the Farewell Hajj, the Prophet said;

Fear Allah regarding women, for they are your assistants. You have the right on them that they do not allow any person whom you dislike to step on your mat. However, if they do that, you are allowed to discipline them lightly. They have a right on you that you provide them with their provision and clothes, in a reasonable manner.) Ibn `Abbas and several others said that the Ayah refers to a beating that is not violent. Al-Hasan Al-Basri said that it means, a beating that is not severe.'

 

[Crazy_K]

Anonymous attack ISIS - http://pastebin.com/d8ND4rvV

 

[Buffet]

At 4,000, a fifth of the foreign fighters come from Western nations.


Some scary numbers here,

• France - 1200
• UK - 600
• Germany - 600
• Belgium - 440
• Netherlands - 250
• Aus - 250

Black ones are only for the last 3 months ( Since Oct 2014). The last 3 months saw an increased numbers from France, Russia and near Russia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...s-to-iraq-and-syria-has-surged-since-october/

 

[OZGOD]

The female aid worker Kayla Mueller has been confirmed to be dead. It is not known how she died but the family confirmed that ISIS sent them a private message with pictures confirming she was dead.

So for her efforts in trying to help people in Palestine and Syria she was rewarded by being kidnapped and losing her life. Sometimes the world isn't fair is it. Surely she is more of a martyr than these ISIS folks. Kidnapping aid workers is a really low act.

(CNN)Kayla Mueller's parents had been holding out hope.

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But on Tuesday, the American ISIS hostage's family revealed devastating news.

They received it, officials said, in a message from her captors.

"We are heartbroken to share that we've received confirmation that Kayla Jean Mueller has lost her life," the family said in a statement. "Kayla was a compassionate and devoted humanitarian. She dedicated the whole of her young life to helping those in need of freedom, justice and peace."

ISIS sent the family a private message over the weekend, National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said.

"Once this information was authenticated by the intelligence community, they concluded that Kayla was deceased," Meehan said.

The message sent to the family included photos. One picture showed her wrapped in a burial shroud, but there was enough showing for the family and forensics examiners to identify her, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter.

The new information does not clarify how 26-year-old Mueller died, a law enforcement source familiar with the case said on condition of anonymity.

On Friday, ISIS claimed that Mueller -- an aid worker captured in northern Syria in 2013 -- had been killed in a building hit during a Jordanian airstrike on Raqqa, the militants' de facto capital in Syria. At the time, ISIS offered no proof to back up its claim, other than an image of a building in rubble.

But a White House spokesman on Tuesday placed blame for her death squarely on ISIS.

"This was, after all, the organization that was holding her against her will. That means they were responsible for her safety and well-being, and they are therefore responsible for her death," spokesman Josh Earnest said.

Confirmation of Mueller's death drew condolences and tributes from across the country and around the world. In Jordan -- where seething leaders have vowed revenge after ISIS burned a captive Jordanian pilot to death -- government spokesman Mohammed Al-Momani expressed "grief and anger" over Mueller's death.

Mueller made it her life's work to help others. She graduated from Northern Arizona University in 2009, and worked with humanitarian groups in northern India, Israel and Palestinian territories, a family spokeswoman said.

"She had a quiet, calming presence. She was a free spirit, always standing up for those who were suffering and wanting to be their voice. ... Kayla's calling was to help those who were suffering, whether in her home in Prescott, or on the other side of the world," her aunts, Lori Lyon and Terri Crippes, said Tuesday.

In August 2013, Mueller fell into the hands of hostage-takers in Aleppo, Syria, her family said, after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital.

Her family said ISIS contacted them in May with proof that she was alive. The militants eventually said they would kill her if the family didn't pay nearly $7 million by August 13, according to a source close to the family. What happened after that deadline is unclear.

A number of rescue and negotiation attempts to free Mueller failed, officials said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/10/world/isis-hostage-mueller/index.html

 

[chacha kashmiri]

The female aid worker Kayla Mueller has been confirmed to be dead. It is not known how she died but the family confirmed that ISIS sent them a private message with pictures confirming she was dead.

So for her efforts in trying to help people in Palestine and Syria she was rewarded by being kidnapped and losing her life. Sometimes the world isn't fair is it. Surely she is more of a martyr than these ISIS folks. Kidnapping aid workers is a really low act.

It's true that she was doing humanitarian work and her death is an awful tragedy

A lot of Muslims have got for humanitarian work only to be stopped or rendered on suspicion of terrorism

 

[enkidu_]

So for her efforts in trying to help people in Palestine and Syria she was rewarded by being kidnapped and losing her life. Sometimes the world isn't fair is it. Surely she is more of a martyr than these ISIS folks. Kidnapping aid workers is a really low act.

If the West stop sponsoring wars in Syria (or Libya, or..., or... you can add a dozen of countries from Latin America to Asia) perhaps the local folks would not need few humanitarians.

ISIS fighters, even the most dumb and cruel one, at least puts their life on stake for a higher ideal, not like these so called Western humanitarians with their trendy neo-imperialist paternalism and Messianic mission ("to save...").

 

[Gabbar Singh]

ISIS fighters, even the most dumb and cruel one, at least puts their life on stake for a higher ideal, not like these so called Western humanitarians with their trendy neo-imperialist paternalism and Messianic mission ("to save...").

Charming.

 

[Buffet]

Charming.

Isn't it.

 

[Saeed]

So for her efforts in trying to help people in Palestine and Syria she was rewarded by being kidnapped and losing her life. Sometimes the world isn't fair is it. Surely she is more of a martyr than these ISIS folks. Kidnapping aid workers is a really low act.

Her life was clearly worth more than terrorists like Baghadadi, Al Zarqawi, Chris Kyle or the perpetrators of mahmudiyah killings but what do you mean by rewarded with losing her life? As if the people, who were helped by her, took her life. But yes she was more worth more than every blood thirsty individual in Iraq, Syria or anywhere in the world. We need more people like her.

ISIS fighters, even the most dumb and cruel one, at least puts their life on stake for a higher ideal, not like these so called Western humanitarians with their trendy neo-imperialist paternalism and Messianic mission ("to save...").

What is this supposed to mean? She was only helping people and you're reading too much into it. We should appreciate her efforts.

 

[rahulrulezz]

I hope you say that to immigration officers of the western country you are residing in. First one to leave your country, enjoy the freedom of speech and life in a western country n say crap behind it's back. I hope you get deported back to your non western Islamic country

 

[Saeed]

Instead of Seeking Revenge, We Must Fight ISIS by Advancing Ideologies of Human Solidarity

AMMAN - The excruciating death of our pilot, Muath al-Kaseasbeh, at the hands of Daesh/ISIS militants has rallied Jordanians and the world at large. Much like "Je suis Charlie," "We are all Muath" as well. The truth of these proclamations is evident but the mission to which they call us is more intricate and transformative than the international media portrays. For we Jordanians know more than most that progress in fighting fanaticism does not come from exacting revenge on individuals. To be sure, we will struggle against such evil, and we will win.

But the issue of our people, our neighbors and our friends being targets of extremism is not a new phenomenon. From the heinous terrorist bomb attacks on our hotels in Amman that claimed over 60 lives in 2005 to the recurring cycles of violence throughout the region that have displaced millions of Palestinians, Egyptians, Iraqis and Syrians inside our borders, Jordan has faced the consequences of asymmetric warfare every decade. We understand that eradicating extremism, including this latest evil that we see in Daesh, requires that we address socio-historical conditions that continue to marginalize and demean Arab youth and their communities in West Asia, North Africa, Europe and beyond.

The Jordanian government has recently made strong statements about the scope of Jordan's retaliation with "just the beginning" of its "multiple targets." Reminded of Rev. Martin Luther King, I speak now "with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision" in order to stress the importance of internationalism and making connections across borders to see global struggles as our own. Our approach to fighting such oppression must be founded on an ethic of human solidarity that is broader than Jordan. This attack on multiple targets must be made in conjunction with the support of network intelligence gathering from Boko Haram to Raqqa and to a multitude of universal targets. It is how we will learn to differentiate when we talk to sleepers inside our region, through moral and not just military re-armament.

At the core of these efforts is the patent truth that real security is human security, one that takes a long-range view of human welfare and addresses long-term issues of poverty and injustice and not only the short-term causes of particular violent conflicts. For millions of people, structural violence has become a fact of life; their suffering -- the banality of their pain -- is the inevitable product of the postcolonial debris with which nation states in our region continue to grapple with to this day. That some, like Afghanistan and Iraq, have all but failed, and others, like Syria, have succumbed to state violence has eroded people's trust in states' capacity for social management. When we read that some 3,000 so-called "European jihadists," or "war tourists" as Paul Collier has aptly put it, have joined Daesh, we must remember that it is this socio-political, and not a religious, vacuum that groups like Daesh are filling with their platform of populist hatred.

These state and social failures apply to Europe too. As Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, recently commented in response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, "Al-Qaeda wants to mentally colonize French Muslims, but faces a wall of disinterest. But if it can get non-Muslim French to be beastly to ethnic Muslims on the grounds that they are Muslims, it can start creating a common political identity around grievance against discrimination." The sensationalist tendencies of our contemporary global media have offered an ideal echo chamber for the warped and corrupt ideologies of these militant groups.

We must better utilize this echo chamber to put forth convincing ideologies that strengthen the possibility for human solidarity. The European Neighborhood Policy, which attempts to tie the periphery to the center, is a good attempt at governance, but it stops short. European policymakers must comprehend that good neighborliness does not only take place between countries, but also between communities. Inter-existence with Muslims in European cities, but also with other groups such as Ukrainians, is as important a practice of good governance and good neighborliness as fostering good Eurasian relations. So the citizens of Europe as well as of West Asia and North Africa, Arabs and non-Arabs, followers of all faiths, must stand up and be counted.

An ethic of human solidarity, of humanitarianism, must take us both beyond and in the midst of national allegiances in order to present a convincing alternative to the nihilistic, but unfortunately uniting, ideologies of radical and militant groups like Boko Haram, Daesh and Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis. They are appealing to the millions of people who have sunk into the depths of absolute deprivation precisely because they traverse the national borders that they, victimized by structural violence, hold responsible for their captivity into poverty and injustice.

In Jordan, it means not forgetting about the alienated Syrian and Jordanian children who have been rendered vulnerable. Human development, specifically through long-term education plans and inclusive community centers that seek to change attitudes, is the ultimate goal of our national development. It is the ultimate goal of imaginative long-term international policies that must help and include the desperate, rejected and angry young men and women from the Parisian banlieues to Raqqa, Syria.

This broader context for good neighborhood policies throws into relief the very qualities of inter-existence, mutual obligation and a reasonable level of tolerance whereby these borders are markers of our respective cultural specificities but not hindrances to practices of solidarity and reciprocity. Our problems are not new. The faces of the unvirtuous who exploit these problems for remapping power and wealth do change, but the root causes remain predictable. Hasn't the time arrived for us to revive an inter-disciplinary and eco-social framework for a world humanitarian order?

Inequalities that are incompatible with human dignity anywhere are politically, socially and economically destabilizing everywhere. We need to find out how people, the disenfranchised, think, and we must think with them towards long-term solutions, in good times and in bad. Good governance engages the needy -- those who see themselves as discarded by society -- so that they can live with dignity and begin to see themselves as integral to social order and stability. Regional stabilization will only be achieved in the context of recognizing security as humanitarian. That is the real war that we must struggle to win in Jordan and the world at large.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hrh-prince-el-hassan-bin-talal/revenge-isis-ideologies_b_6648170.html
Good to see that there is at least 1 sane person (no disrespect if there are more) among the Jordanian royals.

 

[chacha kashmiri]

I hope you say that to immigration officers of the western country you are residing in. First one to leave your country, enjoy the freedom of speech and life in a western country n say crap behind it's back. I hope you get deported back to your non western Islamic country

contractors in Iraq with billion pound contracts were not exactly best friends with their Iraqi population

Foreigners in Dubai and Qatar also frequently talk about the humans rights abuse in those countries

Indians in Uganda were chucked out though following your same line of thought

 

[OZGOD]

If the West stop sponsoring wars in Syria (or Libya, or..., or... you can add a dozen of countries from Latin America to Asia) perhaps the local folks would not need few humanitarians.

ISIS fighters, even the most dumb and cruel one, at least puts their life on stake for a higher ideal, not like these so called Western humanitarians with their trendy neo-imperialist paternalism and Messianic mission ("to save...").

So let me get this straight. Kayla Mueller is a neo-imperialist who wants to bring the message of the Messiah to the people she was trying to help. And this ideal is lower than the ones that ISIS fighters hold?

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

I can never get my head around why young women would put themselves in a war zone where they know their must be a real risk of kidnapping or worse. I mean with the Jordanian pilot it was different, he was going on a mission to kill and he ended up being killed. That's war. But girls like Kayla Mueller must be so idealistic to put themselves on the line, but it's reckless and foolhardy at the end of the day.

 

[Markhor]

Isn't it bloodcurdling when you have all these talking heads on TV saying "I supported the Iraq invasion in 2003, but if I knew what I know now, I was wrong."

Of course you were wrong and any right-minded person would've told you that you were wrong.

I always try to differentiate between one's human qualities and their political beliefs - but Iraq is the one subject I struggle to do so. I probably will look less favorably on someone when they say they supported the 2003 War. Are these people totally devoid of any compassion or decency ? There are people who STILL support it to this day !

Is it the fact that they've gone down that road so far that they see no use in turning back ?

Everyone has become immune to it all now. Another day, another person killed in Iraq. That 2003 invasion has to rank as one of humanity's biggest crimes and how nobody has been presented in front of a court for those crimes is a blot on every human being's conscience - that we let these people get away with the deaths of over a million people.

 

[Gabbar Singh]

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released a video purporting to show the killing of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians kidnapped in Libya.

The footage released on Sunday appeared to show the Egyptian workers, all wearing orange jump suits, being beheaded near a waterfront.

At least 20 Egyptian workers were seized earlier this year from the coastal town of Sirte in eastern Libya.

The video, titled "A message signed with blood to the nation of the cross", says the killings were directed at "the hostile Egyptian Church".

Speaking in English, a fighter from the group says the beheadings were revenge for "Muslim women persecuted by Coptic crusaders in Egypt".

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middl...christian-hostages-libya-150215193050277.html