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27-12-2014, 06:09 PM | #26 | |||
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IRA terrorists were predominantly white, Baader Meinhof terrorists were predominantly white... ISIL are predominantly Arab/Middle Eastern or whichever cultural pigeonhole you'd like to place them... but whichever way you twist it there aren't many white kids. So really, no one's struggling to get their heads around anything, they're right to be surprised. Doesn't mean people struggle with cognitive dissonance or anything else. |
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27-12-2014, 09:06 PM | #27 | |||
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Both Ammi & Livia have articulated it better than I could have. There is no cognitive dissonance going on inside my head when it comes to this. I fully accept that someone can be born a citizen of one country and follow this extremist muslim doctrine. I find it more worrying that you aren't shocked by it. If the photo is true, then it shows this evilness is spreading. |
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27-12-2014, 11:23 PM | #28 | |||
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ter-user-claim
This story was an internet troll by the guy. UCAS deadline isn't even until 15th January, lol. Way to go daily mail.
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28-12-2014, 12:25 AM | #29 | ||
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28-12-2014, 01:10 AM | #30 | |||
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Or is that just what he WANTS us to think....
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28-12-2014, 01:12 AM | #31 | ||
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28-12-2014, 05:25 AM | #32 | |||
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..honestly TS, I just don't get it/don't see it as you do at all...for young people, any of the three young men in that pic to be so easily indoctrinated into 'hate' and into a total lack of any empathy for human life is extremely shocking, how could the belief of such extremism not shock... |
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28-12-2014, 06:47 AM | #33 | |||
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28-12-2014, 06:49 AM | #34 | |||
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28-12-2014, 07:43 AM | #35 | |||
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But I think evil is one of the few apt words to describe this group. I really feel that anyone who defends them, just doesn't know what they do and doesn't understand what they are capable. A person can be anti-american, or against their policies in the world, or against the west or whatever, but that doesn't mean they should harbor some support for ISIL. |
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28-12-2014, 08:18 AM | #36 | ||
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Like I said, it is horrific and it is shocking that there are people who want to. Despite Kirk's inference (and after, with hypocrisy, suggesting that I have misquoted HIM), I am horrified by terrorism and absolutely condemn it. I don't think these warped young minds can be fixed, or at the very least I think it would be dangerous and realistically not possible to even try on such a scale, and perhaps I can conceded that they are "monsters" insofar as monsters can be created by people with selfish agendas. Tl;Dr - does it shock me that there are people who set out to create monsters? Yes. Does it shock me that young people can readily be twisted into those monsters? Absolutely not. ANYWAY - my argument remains. I personally find it equally shocking no matter the skin colour of the young person, but it's evident that most people don't. Not even necessarily on this thread / forum (although as I said, recent threads with assertions of genetic barbarism...) but in general, isn't it evident? Isn't it evident with this story (hoax or not) being major news at all? Does every young "brown" British IS convert spark news stories, debate threads and daily mail hysteria? No. Because people expect that. They can accept that. They can squirrel it away in their mind along with all of the other "foreign folks terrorism stuff in dusty places", say how awful it is, and largely not think about it too much. Some might suggest it as a reason that "these people shouldn't be in our country in the first place!!", etc. That becomes more difficult when the convert being paraded is "little Johnny Edwards from just down th'Road he were always a quiet chap". It destroys that comfort zone and increases the "OMG factor" tenfold for MANY people. There's a reason for that, and in my opinion, it's the same reason that a lot of people find themselves insistent that most if not all extremists are in some way "born wrong", inherently "not normal folks" psychologically, by their very nature. It's because they simply don't want to believe that, but for certain historical twists of fate, these monsters could be their children / nieces / nephews or the teenage boys they see skating past the window every day. Last edited by Toy Soldier; 28-12-2014 at 08:21 AM. |
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28-12-2014, 08:41 AM | #37 | |||
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..apologies that I only have time atm to skim read your post so I will come back to it and read it through properly a bit later... ..anyway, just for now...I don't know if you've read about the young Syrian boy who 'escaped' ISIS..?... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-blow-up.html ..the methods obviously used to 'create evil' is largely fear...fear for their families and themselves, that if they don't themselves be part of the atrocities/part of the murders/part of the tortures/do what is asked of them.. then they themselves as well as their families will become victims..will become the ones who are tortured and killed...their mothers and sisters raped etc..?...so with the 'white jihadi'..?...there was no such fear instilled, there were not the same methods of brainwashing used/there was not that 'indoctrination' that the young Syrian boy tells of..(we presume, although I think it's all actually fake..)..but that was what the story led us to presume...that there was no threat to him/his family...he lived in no fear in his life....so would that not naturally provoke a greater shock..that he would be part of these inhuman acts?..that has nothing to do with his appearance at all..... |
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28-12-2014, 08:49 AM | #38 | |||
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..what I'm trying to say TS..(and probably really badly..)..is that you cannot compare a situation of....'we have your family hostage/we will torture, rape and kill them unless you kill/torture for us...'..we can all at least understand how that psychology works..?...as opposed to someone who would torture and kill without any of those threats to them being real, who would voluntarily be part of what ISIS do because they have no 'cause' other than hate ...surely that is more shocking....because it's so much harder to understand....
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28-12-2014, 09:01 AM | #39 | ||
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Idk.I think maybe it's seen as more shocking because he was probably not brought up as a Muslim(as white British kids usually are'nt).When a kid of Pakistan/Arab herritage and a Muslim background turns toward groups such as ISIS,They're already part way there.These terrorist ideolgies are'nt as much of a leap since the basis for what they believe has its foundations in Islam.For a non religious or a Christian or Jewish or whatever white kid to be converted not only to Islam but this extreme version of Islam just lets us know that these terrorists can get to any of our kids.(Even though the story turned out fake anyway).Simple fact is.This is a Muslim based ideology and it is usually Muslims(who just happen to not be white) that turn to this.
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28-12-2014, 09:02 AM | #40 | ||
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Anyway, it's not simply country of origin we're talking about here. People aren't surprised by British-born kids of middle eastern origin leaving to join IS. Well, it gets a mention, but hardly the media attention that something like this does... And why would they be fearful of the things mentioned any more than the white boy? And yet, people are not shocked in the same way... |
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28-12-2014, 09:36 AM | #41 | |||
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