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grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts) Sat Aug 16, 2014, 12:44 PM Aug 2014

This Man Slept Through the Islamic State's Takeover of His Town

https://news.vice.com/article/this-man-slept-through-the-islamic-state-takeover-of-his-town

Did you think they would kill you?
No, why would they kill me? I am Muslim and Kurdish, I told them that and the sheikh said that this wasn't their business. He told me, "As long as you are Muslim and you can declare Allah as your god and Mohammed as your prophet, then why would we kill you? You aren't a fighter."

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This Man Slept Through the Islamic State's Takeover of His Town (Original Post) grahamhgreen Aug 2014 OP

As long as you are Muslim, we won't kill you. Nye Bevan Aug 2014 #1

... Unless you're Shia.... grahamhgreen Aug 2014 #2

Yeah, why should he care eissa Aug 2014 #3

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

1. As long as you are Muslim, we won't kill you.

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Sat Aug 16, 2014, 12:52 PM

Aug 2014

So fucked up.

grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)

2. ... Unless you're Shia....

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #1)

Sat Aug 16, 2014, 12:59 PM

Aug 2014

eissa

(4,238 posts)

3. Yeah, why should he care

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Sat Aug 16, 2014, 01:20 PM

Aug 2014

If his neighbors who aren't Muslim get slaughtered. Certainly not his problem.

That, in a nutshell, is what is so fucked up about that region. During the genocide of 1915 when Turks where butchering Armenians and Assyrians that was the same attitude.

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