Terror attacks by Islamist groups

[Mugwump]

[David]

This is where, as much as I cringe to write it, drone strikes might be a substantial improvement on old-fashioned bomb dropping. But they, too, have far too many casualties at the moment, so they will need to improve the technology (or execution of it) greatly before they can be considered a safe alternative.

(The fact that we're even discussing more or less ethical ways of killing human beings is a sad reminder of how barbaric war is. We've thankfully reached the stage where we no longer kill murderers and child molesters, but we can't even get to a stage yet where we can guarantee we won't accidentally slaughter Middle-Eastern children, let alone talk about whether it's right to take out hits on ISIS fighters.)

[Mugwump]

^ I'd say drone strikes are probably worse. The best intelligence you can have in air strikes is ground-level intelligence. In the case of the air strike being discussed above, it appears that this is what they had.

War is unspeakably horrible, a fact that finally began to be understood by the Western civilian after 1914-18. It is better to avoid being involved in it at all, I agree. But it is sometimes the least worst option in a world where evil exists. It might be better to leave the Arab peoples to sort out their internal grievances in the courtly way which is endemic in that part of the world, without taking sides, no matter how barbarous the faction, but in this case I find it hard to sustain that view.

[Skids]

Our friends that are here.....

'We don't shy away from that': Islamic group in Australia calls for ex-Muslims to be executed.

Federal Police have been called in after an Islamic group called for Muslims to be executed if they leave the religion.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/3481196 ... ted/#page1


Poor misunderstood group hey

[David]

[Mugwump]

[Pies4shaw]

People were told to remain in their homes, so it's unsurprising that they were in their homes when their homes were bombed. There are apparently still around 400,000 civilians trapped in Western Mosul.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... -civilians

[Jezza]

Another terrorist incident?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... kholm.html

[Jezza]

More terror attacks, this time in Egypt. Apparently, ISIS are "claiming" responsibility.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-09/e ... ns/8429272

[think positive]

Evil evil, just wrong, greedy nutjobs

[Pies4shaw]

^^^ Nutjobs, certainly - but why "greedy"?

[think positive]

^^^ Nutjobs, certainly - but why "greedy"?

Aren't they doing it to grab land? New locations for their religion? Bigger church plate? Isn't it a snatch for something doneone else has got? Even if they destroy it?

[David]

^ Nope, just intimidation I think.

[stui magpie]

^

mixed with a little ideology. These Isis fruitbats have systematically destroyed religious and historical artefacts all over the middle east. They want their caliphate, so wiping out a few Christian churches fits all the agendas.

[Skids]