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    DoubtthiswilllastHudson Hongo
    5/09/16 1:53am

    Dammit. I thought we were going to send Amy Schumer to the Middle East per General Bono’s orders and end this once and for all.

    Also, the fact that countries in that part of the world we sell and outright give lots of weapons to refuse to fight ISIS, for the most part, pretty much proves that countries get those weapons to use them against their own people, not fight wars against other nations.

    I can think of one country in that region that doesn’t use its American weapons against it OWN people, but it isn’t currently en vogue to speak anything but negatively about them.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesDoubtthiswilllast
      5/09/16 2:30am

      Jordan. And while other countries in the region could certainly be doing way more, and it’s an exaggeration to say that no one in the region is doing anything militarily against ISIS. It’s insulting, really.

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      MisterPigginsDoubtthiswilllast
      5/09/16 4:54am

      Because Palestinians don’t count as people?

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    suppiluliumasHudson Hongo
    5/09/16 1:19am

    in retaliation for the incarceration of women

    “Robbing women of their freedom is our thing, dammit!” screamed the angry gunmen.

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      Aquasolsuppiluliumas
      5/09/16 2:16am

      Almost literally what I was thinking. Since when does Daesh— or any branch of it— actually give a shit about women being incarcerated?

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      OMG!PONIES!Aquasol
      5/09/16 6:58am

      It's hard to rape them when they're behind prison walls.

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    BendSinisterHudson Hongo
    5/09/16 1:12am

    Since this didn’t happen in Europe or the US this is about the last we’ll hear of that. Another Middle Eastern problem solved!

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesBendSinister
      5/09/16 1:19am

      Hot take!

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      McRunwellBendSinister
      5/09/16 1:29am

      let’s ignore this problem and it will go away. lalalalala can’t hear you

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHudson Hongo
    5/09/16 1:19am

    Everything is ISIS. They better be careful who they allow franchises, or they’ll stop being sexy-scary.

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      DoubtthiswilllastGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      5/09/16 1:54am

      Quality control is job one for a franchiser.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesDoubtthiswilllast
      5/09/16 2:24am

      Yep. That’s why you don’t offer a franchise to just anyone.

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    DuffinHudson Hongo
    5/09/16 9:55am

    At this point, ISIS is like Anonymous. Anyone can claim to be in Anonymous and Anonymous can claim any hack was done by them. Same as with ISIS, who seems to just be laying claim to anything that could be construed as a terror attack.

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      suppiluliumasDuffin
      5/09/16 5:01pm

      Well, this wasn’t carried out by just anyone, though. The group Wilayat Sanai is, as noted in the article, Daesh’s branch in Egypt. They started as an unaffiliated group called Ansar al-Bayt al-Maqdis (Supporters of the Holy House—a reference to Jerusalem), then associated themselves with Daesh by briefly calling themselves Ansar al-Dawla al-Islamiya fil-Bayt al-Maqdis (Supporters of the Islamic State in the Holy House), then after officially swearing allegiance to, and being accepted by, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they became Daesh’s Wilayat Sina’ (Sanai Province). They really are Daesh’s official presence in Egypt, in other words. This is the statement taking credit for yesterday’s attack:

      After Daesh declared its bogus caliphate, various jihadist groups here and there began swearing allegiance. For a time, Daesh supporters would boast on social media of every little group that joined up, which was kind of amusing because they were boasting about some real nobodies; someone on Twitter jokingly dubbed it a “bayah hunt” (bayah is allegiance). This died down when the idiots realized some of the groups they were boasting about were plainly fictional groups people made up just to swear their allegiance. I mean, look at this supposed banner:

      The bottom two comments are by Daesh supporters (Google Shami Witness sometime; his downfall was hilarious) distancing themselves from an obvious fake.

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    CleverUsernameHudson Hongo
    5/09/16 8:01am

    Is this where we pretend to be experts on international diplomacy and military strategy to thinly mask contempt for all non-’Muricans?

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      ThatGuy524Hudson Hongo
      5/09/16 12:13pm

      Wait, ISIS is taking out cops now, does that mean they’re on my side?

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        Jivemaster FiveHudson Hongo
        5/09/16 1:39am

        Hey kids, it’s time to play the Blame Game!

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          suppiluliumasJivemaster Five
          5/09/16 1:53am

          But we already know who’s to blame, so why?

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        stonecoldstevebostonHudson Hongo
        5/09/16 1:08am

        religion of guns

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          potahhhtostonecoldsteveboston
          5/09/16 1:11am

          this is about isis, not american christianity.

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        WhiteCherryHudson Hongo
        5/09/16 1:57am

        ISIS also extremely angry this girl is getting all of the credit.

        http://gawker.com/high-school-ve…

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