ISIS Unveiled, 17/777, Jonah's Tomb, Israel. AIDS/Ebola

[Wombaticus Rex]

It's all finally going to come down, it's going to hemmorage, the entire god damn world and at this point I cannot say I am all too upset. I say let it reign down chaos. Let the world shake. We need a cleansing. It's been a long time coming.

That might be the whitest shit I've read on RI in 2014 so far.

Just eat some mushrooms, daug. Stop channeling Travis Bickle.

[jlaw172364]

@Wombat

When people are constantly being told an apocalypse is just around the corner, and then it fails to materialize, some of them begin to get disappointed.

[norton ash]

Ahhh, apocalypses are like women or buses, just be patient and sure enough the next hard rain or cleansing fire is sure to show up.

[8bitagent]

Yes but I also say give peace a chance and can't we all just get along?


This ISIS seems to be the biggest focus of media attention lately. And Ebola. I wonder if ISIS Ebola is available for a band name. Gaza who?

[semper occultus]

Who are the Yazidis and why is Isis hunting them?

The Iraqi ethnic and religious minority descends from some of the region’s most ancient roots and face executions for a reputation as ‘devil worshippers’
•US considers air strikes and aid to Iraqis trapped on mountain

Raya Jalabi
Thursday 7 August 2014 22.17 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/who-yazidi-isis-iraq-religion-ethnicity-mountains


An Iraqi Yazidi family that fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, sit at at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk. Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images


Reports that Islamic militants have trapped up to 40,000 members of Iraq’s minority communities have spurred the US into considering a military-led humanitarian action.

Most of the trapped people are members of the Yazidi religion, one of Iraq’s oldest minorities. They were forced to flee to Mount Sinjar in the Iraqi north-west region, or face slaughter by an encircling group of Islamic State (Isis) jihadists. The UN has said that roughly 40,000 people – many women and children – have taken refuge in nine locations on the mountain, “a craggy, mile-high ridge identified in local legend as the final resting place of Noah’s ark”.

Gruesome images of brutally slain people have emerged in the past week, as local officials say that at least 500 Yazidis, including 40 children, have been killed, and many more have been threatened with death. Roughly 130,000 residents of the Yazidi stronghold of Sinjar have fled to Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan to the north, or to Irbil.

Reports of violence, repression and murder by Isis and other extremist groups have become increasingly prevalent in Iraq. Christians have also been targeted for their faith. The country’s largest Christian city was all but abandoned on Thursday, as Isis advanced through minority communities in the north-west.


On Thursday, the UNSC condemned the Isis attacks on the Yazidi community, saying those responsible could face trial for crimes against humanity.

Who are the Yazidis?
Estimates put the global number of Yazidis at around 700,000 people, with the vast majority of them concentrated in northern Iraq, in and around Sinjar.


The region around Mt Sinjar.

A historically misunderstood group, the Yazidis are predominantly ethnically Kurdish, and have kept alive their syncretic religion for centuries, despite many years of oppression and threatened extermination.

The ancient religion is rumoured to have been founded by an 11th century Ummayyad sheikh, and is derived from Zoroastrianism (an ancient Persian faith founded by a philosopher), Christianity and Islam. The religion has taken elements from each, ranging from baptism (Christianity) to circumcision (Islam) to reverence of fire as a manifestation from God (derived from Zoroastrianism) and yet remains distinctly non-Abrahamic. This derivative quality has often led the Yazidis to be referred to as a sect.

At the core of the Yazidis’ marginalization is their worship of a fallen angel, Melek Tawwus, or Peacock Angel, one of the seven angels that take primacy in their beliefs. Unlike the fall from grace of Satan, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, Melek Tawwus was forgiven and returned to heaven by God. The importance of Melek Tawwus to the Yazidis has given them an undeserved reputation for being devil-worshippers – a notoriety that, in the climate of extremism gripping Iraq, has turned life-threatening.

Under Ottoman rule in the 18th and 19th centuries alone, the Yazidis were subject to 72 genocidal massacres. More recently in 2007, hundreds of Yazidis were killed as a spate of car bombs ripped through their stronghold in northern Iraq. With numbers of dead as close to 800, according to the Iraqi Red Crescent, this was one of the single deadliest events to take place during the American-led invasion.

The Yazidis had been denounced as infidels by Al-Qaida in Iraq, a predecessor of Isis, which sanctioned their indiscriminate killing.


Vian Dakhil, a Yazidi MP in Iraq, broke down in tears on Wednesday, as she called on the parliament and the international community to “Save us! Save us!” from Isis.

Researcher Cale Salih (@callysally) interviewed the Yazidis’ spiritual leader Baba Sheikh for the New York Times last month. She wrote:

The rise of Islamic fundamentalism more broadly has pushed thousands of Yazidis to seek asylum in Europe. According to some estimates, 70,000 people, or about 15% of the Yazidi population in Iraq, fled the country. For a religion that does not accept converts and strongly discourages exogamy, the assimilation of Yazidi youth in Europe threatens the faith’s continued existence. “People have gone out of fear of attacks or fear of racism. This makes it hard to protect the faith,” said Baba Sheikh. [...]


For the past several years, Baba Sheikh, the Yazidis’ spiritual leader, tells me he has canceled the official yearly religious ceremony at Lalesh temple, the holy site of the Yazidis, out of fear of attacks.

Lalesh has reportedly been turned into a refuge for internally displaced Yazidis.

....that number again...John Keel lived with them for a time as per one of his first books..Jadoo possibly...appalling situation..

[8bitagent]

I can forgive the Kurds blind allegiance to the US in a way. I really like the Kurds. They're one of the few good entities who have benefited from the West's immoral disasterous invasion. (Globalist oil companies, China, construction/defense/energy companies being the main benefactors) I wish all of Iraq was like these Kurd people, I do believe they deserve a Kurdistan independent from Iraq. Least from what I know of them.

It's curious ISIS calls these people "devil worshippers". As ISIS is the ultimate pawn in a very dark, occult agenda I feel is clearly going on. (I see all jihadism as a direct proxy agent of chaos for the european globalist agenda, but especially this "Isis")

Now technically, in English they would be called ISIL(Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and now declare themselves simply IS. However, ISIS just sounds intense, imposing and biblical so that's pretty much here on out going to be their name. ISIS Unveiled...and that depends what IS IS.

[8bitagent]

This ISIS thing I think ultimately is the biggest story so far of the year, foreign affairs wise. People are calling it the ultimate frankenstein blowback ala Los Zetas, which may be but I see it as an almost esoteric biblical new gambit or aeon the (true) elites are banking on. Raising the spectre of wtf crazyness. I think we're sadly going to hear of a lot of unthinkably weird, shocking and creatively evil things under the ISIS brand and perhaps the total takeover of Iraq and most of Syria. Maybe now all people will see the true insanity and immorality of the US decision to go into Iraq? And stop saying "support the troops" and "Freedom isnt free"? "Freedom" got half a million innocent Iraqis killed

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... rvey-2013/

[8bitagent]

This is pretty much my main working theory/gut feeling: the (for lack of a better word) Satanic elite who ultimately control the planet(yes I know how Jonesy Ickian that sounds) create mass death like the holocaust or genocide in Iraq because they get off on the mega ritual of it. So a group they call in the media ISIS, taking over ancient Sumer and Babylon in the most horrifying of ways probably gets them off in a way that only their 9/11 ritual event could.

[82_28]

I'm puzzled by this as well. Heretofore basically liberal people are beginning to say "what the fuck is wrong with these people?" "They're all crazy". Shit like that. I counter with "most of Earth is filled with normal people and pressure is being applied from somewhere". Where is this somewhere?

[Wombaticus Rex]

8bit, I think you'll appreciate both of these -- a level of nuance that will never trickle down from the defense establishment to the politicians or people, because we're a nation of dumbfucks.

http://warontherocks.com/2014/08/caliphate-redux/

And this one was especially interesting: http://warontherocks.com/2014/07/5-ques ... cocktails/

[conniption]

MoA

August 08, 2014

What Obama Told The Caliph

U.S. F-18 jets bombed two U.S. made artillery pieces the Islamic State was using to prepare its attack on Erbil in the Kurdish part of Iraq.

The attack came after Obama addressed Caliph Pol Pot II yesterday to suggest that the Islamic State should leave the few the areas which are of positive American interests off its target list:

Obama, in a statement delivered at the White House late Thursday, said that strikes would be launched against extremist convoys “should they move toward” the Kurdish capital of Irbil, where the United States maintains a consulate and a joint operations center with the Iraqi military.

“We intend to take action if they threaten our facilities anywhere in Iraq . . . including Irbil and Baghdad,” he said.

What Obama did not say is the actual message Caliph Pol Pot II will have received:

> "You are free to target anything you like but the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and the Kurdish part of Iraq. There U.S. companies are invested in oil, there we have this big new intelligence station and and there the Israelis have their large, long running intelligence operation targeting Iran."

> "Otherwise you are free to attack anybody in Syria or the rest of Iraq. We will do nothing, not even bomb the heavy weapons you have, to deny you total victory. Just like you we do not care what will happen to this or that minority or majority there. Fuck the Yazidis. (But do you really have to make these bombastic public relation efforts with all its massacre movies? They rill up these R2P idiots who don't understand the real purpose of that doctrine.)

> "You took about four Iraqi divisions worth of fine heavy weapons and ammunition 'Made in U.S'. It is excellent stuff. Feel free to use it. We could of course bomb all of it without setting a foot on the ground. But that's not in my interest. Say 'Tanks for the memories', hehe. We will sell another set to those dupes in Baghdad. We hope to have them resupplied and ready for your next raid before you run out of your current stock."

> "By the way - in case you need some additional anti-tank weapons. We have just given several dozens of TOW to some groups in north-west Syria. There is a good chance for you to 'negotiate' access to some of them."

> "I am told you announced that you are preparing something big, like really big, like 9/11. Fine, but please leave us out of it. We are busy with our war on Russia. How about Jeddah?"

> "Hey, or what about attacking Iran? I'd like to do that myself but my people won't let me."

> "I really like your new Jihadi gift shop in Istanbul. My kids were asking for some of that merchandize. Do they take Visa?"

Posted by b on August 8, 2014 at 12:22 PM

[conniption]

So... is this the go-to ISIS/ISIL/IS thread?
I'm not sure.

~

George Galloway: Solutions on ISIS Crisis & Gaza Massacre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l9tQ922OCU

Published on Aug 8, 2014
Abby Martin features an interview with UK politician George Galloway, discussing the violence in Gaza and the latest airstrikes the US military has launched against Islamic militants in Iraq.

[jlaw172364]

Jacob Applebaum was living with the Yazidis for awhile. His blog was called "itscomplicated."

[Hunter]

ISIS is really becoming a HUGE problem, they are killing everyone, muslims, christians anyone who doesnt believe in their hard line radical ideology.


I have a question for you all, is it possible ISIS was created and is being used and manipulated to serve the West's agenda to further villify Islam or do you think it is the real deal?

ALL of my close muslim friends, of which I have many, believe they are not legit and are likely being manipulated and used and probably created by intell agencies. They do not agree with anything they are doing and think this Caliph dude is a nut and probably on the payroll.

Hell even Iran is siding with us against them.

[Hunter]

Now calling their killing of christians genocide:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/a ... ide-asylum