pianogonzology: isis

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Know . . .

. . . your enemy . . .

(from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/)
". . . The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.

We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as monolithic, and to apply the logic of al‑Qaeda to an organization that has decisively eclipsed it. The Islamic State supporters I spoke with still refer to Osama bin Laden as “Sheikh Osama,” a title of honor. But jihadism has evolved since al-Qaeda’s heyday, from about 1998 to 2003, and many jihadists disdain the group’s priorities and current leadership. . . "

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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Stranger . . .

. . . than fiction . . .

(from http://wonkette.com/584211/hero-gov-greg-abbott-will-stop-obama-from-doing-martial-law-and-isis-to-poor-texans)
". . . Terrible demonic false flag Indo-Kenyan “President” Barack Obama is preparing AT THIS VERY MOMENT to impose martial law on Texas, which will probably be enforced by ISIS, who is currently hiding behind some brush just over yonder, on the Mexican banks of the Rio Grande. Shit yer pants and oil yer guns, y’all, it’s time for a revolution! If you are not one of the people we were just addressing above, here is a thing that is happening! Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas State Guard — NOT the National Guard, the State Guard, which is different — to keep an eye out on a planned U.S. military training exercise called Operation Jade Helm 15, because SOME PEOPLE are very worried, for completely serious reasons we are sure, that maybe Barack Obama is going to use this two month-long exercise to declare martial law and send ISIS to take over Texas, in order to accomplish … something! According to the military, the exercise is intended to work like this:
The mission is vast both geographically and strategically: Elite service members from four branches of the U.S. military will launch an operation this summer in which they will operate covertly among the U.S. public and travel from state to state in military aircraft. Texas, Utah and a section of southern California are labeled as hostile territory, and New Mexico isn’t much friendlier. . . Oh, we almost forgot the ISIS part! You see, a Texas Ranger, who is anonymous, BUT DEFINITELY EXISTS, has written a letter to a conspiracy loon, stating that “we expecting [sic] an attack on more than one Texas city or town by ISIS and/or any of their partners,” and that this could happen any day now. Because duh, ISIS is totally in Mexico right now, just a few miles from El Paso, and they are working with the drug cartels, to attack America! Are the Jade Helm people coming into KILL the ISIS, or are they coming in because Barack Obama instructed them to work alongside ISIS in order to take Texans to FEMA camps??? No way to tell! . . ."

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