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With every beheading, the media goes nuts and tries to convince us that ISIS is going to kill us all.
Personally, I'm skeptical of the media-driven narrative that ISIS is a grave threat. I don't think they're much of a threat to America.
So, has the media convinced you yet? Are you scared of ISIS?
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bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)Brain freeze is a motherfucker.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)spanone
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http://www.cnn.com
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)ISIS....Apocalypse!!!
Good lord.
F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)It really was that bad.
The Rapture Ready must be in apoplexy.
spanone
(135,891 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I gave it a click to see if it was legit, but I won't bring myself to read that sensationalist drivel.
I can imagine they didn't do any comparison to our own end-times-believers, did they? Like the couple that offed themselves and their kids recently? Or the Seventh Day Adventist dude running for president ( will not give him any recognition ) who recently hinted that believers might just poison non-believers?
They've threatened and killed more folks in "murrica than ISIS.
global1
(25,278 posts)Do we know how big a force ISIS is (i.e.,how many soldiers/men they have)?
Where are they located? Are they spread out over a wide area or are they concentrated in a few places?
Who arms them (i.e., where do they get their supply and resupply of weapons)?
Are they just a ground force or do they have air and sea support?
Are they that elusive and spread out that all the bombing that was directed at them hasn't wiped them out?
Before I can say whether or not I'm afraid of ISIS I'm going to need to have answers to these questions. So far all I hear about are abductions, ransoms, beheadings, burning, etc and I'm being told by MSM and the pols in D.C. that I should be afraid of them.
We've been lied to before. So until somebody starts providing the facts about this group - I'm going to reserve my answer.
Petrushka
(3,709 posts)The Islamic State awaits the army of Rome, whose defeat at Dabiq, Syria, will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse.
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
spanone
(135,891 posts)Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)far more competent to reach that end game. ISIS pales in comparison. The Republicans and Tea Party crowd scream ISIS as a purely diversionary tactic.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Against the forces of evil (Islam/Isis) and that these are end times. They are catholic tea party conservatives so this Isis apocalypse stuff has already been bought and sold to the Fox News set too.
Really who watches network news anymore? It's ridiculous. Pumping fear and lies nonstop into every household.
spanone
(135,891 posts)i was raised catholic till i was in my mid teens...
Thav
(946 posts)At least according to various groups.
Just replace "ISIS" with the apocalyptic group du jour and the article would read the same.
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)But then again, I am not a Muslim living in their area.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)GOP
NRA
FOX
CBS
NBC
ABC
The media obsession with grave threats is infotainment at its worst. Bread and circuses for the idiots.
This week measles is the existential threat. Last week was ISIS. Before that it was the Bird Flu, male pattern baldness, erection issues, obesity, Saddam Hussein, the Germans, the Japanese, the Communists hiding under the beds, the threat of nuclear holocaust. On and on until no one can think.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I'm going as Ebola again.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Halloween is just 8 months ago!
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)That said I'm not sure that military action is a good idea.
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msanthrope
(37,549 posts)I think the Administration seems to have good intelligence on interdicting any actions here (see, AQAP, Anwar Awlaki.)
But I worry for ethnic and religious minorities subject to them......and our troops, our foreign service, and aid workers.
We should rightly assess their capabilities, and act intelligently.
FSogol
(45,532 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)So I think we should be concerned....but not crazy back at them.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)No I'm not scared
Do the innocent civilians of those countries need relief from 1000s of lives being taken - yes absolutely
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I don't think they're going to sweep the land and enslave us. But I fear for people in the middle east who are in their path and also for Europeans if they suddenly decided to engage in many multiple attacks within a short period. I don't fear that they will come over the horizon in Los Angeles, turning our malls and strip clubs into mosques and beheading everyone in sight.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I don't perceive any potential threat posed by ISIS as a media-driven narrative.
But, I imagine I'm wrong, and ISIS is this week's threat to better ignore gas prices, which was the threat the week before that to distract us from Ukraine, which was a threat designed to dissuade us from thinking about ISIS...
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)So I don't catch all of the nightly broadcasts:
"America! This is your NEW ENEMY!!!!
Now, HATE!!!
Oh, yeah. And don't pay any attention to that man slicing your Constitution into useless ribbons!!!! It doesn't mean a thing, really."
I can't say I miss those messages at all.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)That still doesn't mean I want US troops in that battle
kimbutgar
(21,215 posts)Kochthugs are more scary to me than ISIS.
H2O Man
(73,627 posts)Good OP, which raises an interesting thought: which is more of a threat to our constitutional democracy -- ISIS or the corporate media? And I mention that seriously, for I recognize that, for those who live in a section of the Middle East, ISIS is a definite threat. And a very serious one.
However, as a resident of upstate New York, who still believes in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream, I find the corporate media far more threatening to our way of life.
I'm not sure if I've expressed myself properly on this.
pampango
(24,692 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Maybe for people who are where they are.
Lefta Dissenter
(6,622 posts)and specializes in the Middle East, I have to be honest and say that I am - for him, for his friends and co-workers, and most of all for the Middle Easterners whose everyday lives have been consumed by this horror.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)nruthie
(466 posts)To see hordes of people being burnt to death and decapitated disturbs me greatly. This is 2015, not the dark ages. Whether or not we personally believe in the apocalypse stuff, they do and they want to get on with it. My Christian evangelical friends believe it too. To me this is seriously something to be a little concerned about. With extremism on both sides, who is going to be reasonable? We can laugh at the utter stupidity of their thinking if we want to, but they are not laughing. These are not rational people and they WANT to kill everyone who doesn't agree with them; they have no desire to discuss this. They will kill or be killed. Period.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)fyp
We were still much worse a number of decades ago.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)Of course I don't plan on going anywhere near the Middle East either, if I lived there my answer would be different I'm sure.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)For millions of Kurds, Iraqis and Syrians I am scared.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Initech
(100,107 posts)FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)I am scared of the threat they present in a large part of the world.
I am scared of the fact that they not only have an apocalyptic vision, but that they see themselves as active players in the end of the world.
I am scared of how they inflame the Sunni-Shia divide, and how the longer they are active, the further west they draw Iran.
ileus
(15,396 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)whathehell
(29,096 posts)Here, not so much.
merrily
(45,251 posts)trip there any time soon anyway.
Am I more scared of Isis killing me in the US than I am of, for example, falling on Boston's icy, snow laden streets and sidewalks? No.
Warpy
(111,367 posts)This one is
Not
Our
Fight.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)They are an example of how cruel and evil human beings can become.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)are still on the loose, and pushing for WAR once again.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)They are not so tough outside of their little neighborhood. They are pitiful, not fear invoking. Their mothers must be so ashamed of their behavior.