Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Paris has perhaps eclipsed an even greater ISIS atrocity. Last week Kurdish forces, backed by British and American air strikes, liberated Sinjar from ISIS, and made the horrendous discovery of mass graves. As reported in the Telegraph … They discovered two graves. The first – containing the corpses of older women – was found west of the city’s centre, … Read more
I’ve seen numerous posts pop up on Social Media with the claim that ISIS are not Islamic, for example we have this quote … Those who shed the blood of the innocent have nothing to do with islam That was a claim made by the leader of an Islamic sect that is denounced as “not true islam” by … Read more
Over a year ago I wrote a posting about a claim that a girl had been stoned to death in Syria for the crime of posting to Facebook. At that time I pointed out a few things … The original source was not credible: “It appears to originally come from the Iranian FARS News Agency” … … Read more
This, if true (and I harbour some doubts), is quite frankly hilarious – ISIS, a group that embraces a rather extreme, violent, and completely intolerant variation of Islamic belief, have declared Jihad on the Teliban, another group that embraces a rather extreme, violent, and completely intolerant but slightly different variation of Islamic belief, and the Teliban … Read more
Be warned, this is NSFW, but also quite hilarious. Somebody has taken an ISIS propaganda clip and injected a new translation, one that completely mocks their mindset. I can see one commenter in YouTube observed “Hey, I speak arabic and this is not what they are saying?” … er well yes, that’s the point, this is … Read more
This one truly shocked me. You would now perhaps reasonably expect to be immune to the idea of being shocked by all that ISIS do, but this latest tragic tale paints a picture of some truly barbaric atrocities all inspired by fanatical fascist Islamic belief. I’m cheating a bit because what I’m doing is cutting and pasting a posting from … Read more