The Islamic State

[PickelledEggs]

When I watched this.... I felt a feeling I didn't even expect. Not fright or anger.... but sad. I felt sad for them... that they have such fear and hate for the things they do and in the way they do. It's really upsetting to see how it happens over there and it's upsetting to see it happen with religion here.

https://news.vice.com/video/the-islamic-state-part-2

[Hijiri Byakuren]

I won't even read about it anymore. It's just too horrible.

[doorknob]

I feel sorry the water supply is being cut off. I wouldn't do that even to a Muslim I disagreed with. The sad thing is that would they say or do the same for me?

I get sick of watching this type of news though because there's not much I can do about it. 

[PickelledEggs]

I won't even read about it anymore. It's just too horrible.

My pastafarian friend shared this on facebook. I was ready to be pissed off and frustrated like I usually am at these things, but when I saw the video.... it's just.... fuck.

Not to mention that when I watched it, I was thinking of all the parallels that religion in the western culture has with it (mostly xtians and their "warriors of god")

It just makes me sad. I kind of wish I hadn't watched it because of how sad it made me, but at the same time, I'm glad I watched it because it made me re-realize what causes my distaste for religion: all the horrible hate and fear and mindless violence it ingrains in people at a young age and for the rest of their life

This is mildly off topic, but not really... I just wish all this war and fighting could stop. All this nationalism and religious pride.... it's going to get us nowhere but dead. There has to be something I can do to help and I've really been thinking hard about doing a series of artwork dealing with religion and belief.

[Solitary]

In the Middle East this has been going on for 2,000+ years. We are animals first, and intelligent second. We are only free, when every individual can be one individual without repercussion from the masses. I wish I could be as brave as Gandhi, but I don't know if he was brave or stupid. I know I'm not a Christian, and I will not turn the other cheek when push comes to shove.  Solitary

[PickelledEggs]

but I don't know if he was brave or stupid

I think it was a mix.... but sometimes you have to be

In the words of Hitchens "There can be no progress without head-on confrontation" I believe that statement whole-heartedly and I think in a way Ghandi was doing just that; blatant confrontation.

[josephpalazzo]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

MASS EXECUTIONS BY ISIS

If the mods think this is too horrific, just remove it.

[PickelledEggs]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

MASS EXECUTIONS BY ISIS

If the mods think this is too horrific, just remove it.

You're fine. You gave us a warning and it's relevant to the thread.

I'm not going to watch it though. The video preview is already too graphic for me...

[Solitary]

Unless people see this shit instead of burying their heads in sand, it will keep happening. Only ignorance, religion, and politics can take away a persons humanity (empathy) to allow this to happen. Religion of peace my ass!    And yet atheists are the cause of all the problems in the world.  Solitary

[josephpalazzo]

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

MASS EXECUTIONS BY ISIS

If the mods think this is too horrific, just remove it.

You're fine. You gave us a warning and it's relevant to the thread.

I'm not going to watch it though. The video preview is already too graphic for me...

I thought there would be a whole lot of people shocked by this video. Apparently not. Have we become too jaded?

[GrinningYMIR]

After years of seeing stuff like this, whether its the Nazi's killing the jews, Khmer Rouge mass exterminating its people, the Russians executing POWS in both Eastern Europe and Afghanistan, and even Americans and English killing Vietnamese and German men at will, the mass executions of ISIS are neither surprising, nor as impactful as they once would have been.

No, we're not jaded, its just imagery that has become all too prevalent in the modern world.

[PickelledEggs]

I thought there would be a whole lot of people shocked by this video. Apparently not. Have we become too jaded?

It's hard to be shocked by something we already are aware of. But when someone already knows the horrible nature of something like that there is no surprise.

So am I shocked? No. I don't think anyone can be shocked by too many things anymore. Shock is just a dramatic way of saying surprised... It is still no less sickening though.

[josephpalazzo]

It's hard to be shocked by something we already are aware of. But when someone already knows the horrible nature of something like that there is no surprise.

So am I shocked? No. I don't think anyone can be shocked by too many things anymore. Shock is just a dramatic way of saying surprised... It is still no less sickening though.

Phew, for a moment I thought I was the only one disgusted by that video?!?

[Solitary]

Of course we are disgusted by that video, it is a result of ignorance and religion in action. Solitary

[StupidWiz]

I heard they're beheading children as well. I saw a picture of a headless small girl in her cute skirt. I hope it's not true, hope it's just a fake photo... :'(