http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025576180Oh my.
DemocratSinceBirth (47,386 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 06:36 PM
So ISIS is threatening to behead a British relief worker...
who was in the Middle East to provide relief to Muslims affected by all the fighting... They sent a video to his parents.
That is beyond f--ked up.
customerserviceguy (16,306 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 06:51 PM
1. Yes, it is
which is why everybody from the West should leave them completely alone, unless they want to get their heads cut off.
DemocratSinceBirth (47,386 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 06:58 PM
3. I don't think the relief worker was bothering ISIS. He was providing succor to those in distress.
That strikes me as noble.
customerserviceguy (16,306 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:05 PM
9. And you see where his nobility got him
I guess it didn't earn him enough 'good-guy karma' to keep him safe. Dying for 'our' religion makes no more sense than what 'they' do to get their 72 virgins.
DemocratSinceBirth (47,386 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:09 PM
12. What makes you infer that his decision to help Muslims in distress was religion based?
As I understand it relief workers do put themselves in danger but the danger usually comes from getting caught up in the crossfire. It doesn't come from being deliberately targeted.
VanillaRhapsody (12,204 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:05 PM
7. Why? Are they not committing genocide? Heard of the Yadzidi?
Convert or die....and this is not just some tribal bullshit.....these guys have gotten their hands on money oil and warfare....
DemocratSinceBirth (47,386 posts) Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:05 PM
8. I don't want my simple point to be lost.
Why would someone want to lob off the dome of a relief worker?
Well, primitive, it's this way: some people are monsters, and don't reciprocate kindness with kindness.
This is ancient history, but way back just before South Africa began dismantling apartheid, say the mid-1980s, a lot of western college-student blonde chicks went there to show their "solidarity" with the oppressed masses.
For a few of them, it ended badly. There were news stories at the time about what happened to them when they attempted comforting and solacing the downtrodden......
Something for the women's-libbers on Skins's island to contemplate, but they'll never say anything because it's politically-incorrect to criticize members of certain racial groups, even if they are male pigs.