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    TheJudgeIsha Aran
    9/28/14 12:48pm

    It's like Hypatia, but in the modern "enlightened" era.

    Can we have stood so still as a species?

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      The GaysianTheJudge
      9/28/14 12:51pm

      Just for the Hypatia reference alone, I would give you all the stars. Couldn't have said it better myself.

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      TheJudgeThe Gaysian
      9/28/14 12:53pm

      Thank you.

      It was the first thing that came to mind. To be torn apart in public by an ignorant mob, one she was working to make life better for, ironically.

      Too sad.

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    ErakisIsha Aran
    9/28/14 1:00pm

    I am glad to see Jezebel finally starting to cover stories like this. It is a welcome departure from the breathless coverage of the "struggles" of privileged white American women.

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      PaneraAnonErakis
      9/28/14 1:07pm

      Oh, lawdy, yes!

      But you know, prepare to be dog piled on shortly.

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      firebrandedfluteErakis
      9/28/14 1:13pm

      Hm. While I like the story and all, I think it's a little odd to expect a site like this to really cover international issues properly. Gawker media isn't NPR or NYT, and the coverage won't be up to par. If you want serious news, I think you've got to go somewhere that pays journalists to think about more than page hits and team!dog vs team!cat.

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    635yergsf6tIsha Aran
    9/28/14 1:11pm

    So ISIS is against: Women, blonde haired/blue-eyed people, Russians, Americans, non-Muslims, Muslims who don't support ISIS, dogs, mosques and historical sites, shaving, "infidels", education, British people, feminists, the French, journalists, people who work for Twitter, the President, aid workers trying to help them, women who aren't virgins, women who flaunt the area between their forehead and nose, people who adopt Western culture and technology, Christians, people, showering, Jews and lawyers.

    Did I miss anything?

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      BoredHag635yergsf6t
      9/28/14 1:33pm

      I'm pretty sure they're not too keen on "humans" in general.

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    SprocheteIsha Aran
    9/28/14 1:00pm

    If God is telling you that shit like this is what he wants, a) there's something seriously wrong with you and/or b) God is a jerk uinworthy of worship.

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      Brene BrawnSprochete
      9/28/14 1:16pm

      I have found there are two approaches to morality and empathy— one is looking around at the experiences of those around you, and basing truth on the information you are given. The other is deciding what you would like truth to be, and filtering everyone else's experiences through your preconceived ideas.

      TL;DR: this is what I want to do, so it is what my God wants me to do.

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      ktfrightSprochete
      9/28/14 4:22pm

      I'm Christian, and while that is not at all relevant to this, these people are crazy. God (or whoever they worship) would not want this. To murder and kidnap people is horrible, but some people skew his ideas into somthing batshit insane.

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    FieryAntidoteIsha Aran
    9/28/14 1:35pm

    I'd love to read an alternate history of the Middle East if the colonial imperialist expansion had never happened. So much of the fate of this area seems to have been set in 1918. What if Britain and France had not randomly drawn lines in the sand, creating countries out of disparate ethnic/cultural groups? What if the Ottoman Empire had not been defeated? Would the American Iraq war have happened? I wonder if the religious extremism of ISIS would have been the norm, or if absent the impression of an outside threat, the culture would have evolved on its own? One thing is clear to me, though, no good ever comes from western meddling.

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      CeeSquaredFieryAntidote
      9/28/14 2:12pm

      I think it's particularly disingenuous on the part of otherwise rational people to constantly deflect and deny the role Islam actually plays in creating these cultures of violence, misogyny, and stupidity.

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      FieryAntidoteCeeSquared
      9/28/14 2:24pm

      is Buddhism responsible for the crazed zealots murdering families in Burma? Is Hinduism responsible for the mobs attacking neighbors in India? Christianity has certainly inspired violence (see: the last 500 years). Religion doesn't act in an historical, social, cultural vacuum.

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    BoredHagIsha Aran
    9/28/14 1:02pm

    I've been reading about this since the news was released over here and it just makes me sick with grief. The amount of terror the targets of IS are enduring is just unimaginable to me. If this is what gets to the news, dear god what else is happening.

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      AliciaBoredHag
      9/28/14 1:10pm

      Agreed. It's the stuff we don't know about (and will find out about later) that is even more scary.

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    iamlfw1031Isha Aran
    9/28/14 1:25pm

    Am I the only one who seriously fears nuclear war? I never felt like this when Russia was the USSR and had all the vodka. I was all "Pfffft. Everyone calm down...this isn't War Games and even if the missiles DO launch, Patrick Swayze will come in & save me, Lea Thompson, from the Red Dawn.

    People don't launch missiles when vodka and the really good caviar are at stake."

    But when religion is involved, all bets are off. Religion is a killer.

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      EisenBolan, SJWiamlfw1031
      9/28/14 8:19pm

      I lived also through the cold war and honestly this scares me less. I cannot think of many situations of ISIS getting any nukes beyond one or two. When your city has a nuke with your cities name on it, that is scary.

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