DISQUS

MikeRT · 1 year ago

What's ironic about this is that if people actually saw what the terrorists do in many of these videos, the public would grow more resolved in wanting to eliminate them--which is Lieberman's ostensible goal here. The propaganda videos are unlikely to be taken seriously in the West and the majority of the industrialized world, but the execution videos are certainly useful for putting things into perspective when false equivocations are drawn (my favorite is the way that feminists often talk about "patriarchal tyranny" in the West and equivocate the treatment of women in the West to that of women in most Islamic societies).

Nothing put things into perspective for me as to how sick and unjust Muslim culture generally is in its application of Sharia than watching a video taken from either Afghanistan or Iran showing an actual stoning of a woman accused of adultery. Seeing it actually happen in all of its gory mob detail was enough to cast aside any doubts in my mind that there is compatibility between our cultures.

Berin Szoka · 1 year ago

Maybe if they had better formers of percussion, they wouldn't have to blow things up just to keep the beat.

While I'm sure the jihadist version of "GI Joe" has its appeal in some quarters, I'm going to avoid panicking until I see a Larry Lessig-style snappy powerpoint calling the faithful to jihad.