http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/10/03/352815113/isis-captives-tell-of-rapes-and-beatings-plead-for-help
okay, so boko haram kidnaps girls from a school en masse, now these guys. and these are forced marriages, i'm thinking. "perhaps thousands" of women getting "secret phones"? they're not being shuffled off to buffalo. if i were guessing, i'd guess some manner of reproductive exploitation is going on.
see, and my news media has kept me specifically in the dark about what, exactly, it is that isis is after. what their mission objectives are. to be fair, it's mostly okay with my government if nobody ever questions anybody's mission objectives... ever, so i admit to being kind of in the center of a media blackout on what's going on sometimes.
what i'm led to understand is their major malfunctions are all variations on "they hate ur freedumb." the message hasn't really changed in fifteen years. in fact, one of the major networks here just had dubya on to trigger our collective ptsd by mentioning 9-11 a whole bunch of times right in a row, and then connected it to isis so everyone would be good and scared and confused about everything. i'm surprised he didn't repeat the CONSUME message along with that FEAR and OBEY.
so my info on why isis is doing what it's doing is sketchy at best. i can't really make any judgments i would trust with the information i have. when i hear about what they do, i assume that no reasonable man behaves in that way unless he has grievous cause, but the only thing i know about what those grievances actually are is that what i think i know is probably inaccurate.
because why is my news media trying to convince me that the greatest threat to my "freedumb" is a group of people who seem to only really do harm to one another and not the people inside my own country who are doing harm to the people here? hey, let's ask mike brown what he thinks of the threat isis poses to regular americans' lives.
... oh.
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