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The very least we can do, as human beings coddled in the luxurious safety of the Western world, is to keep the suffering of those in darker situations in our minds and to prevent it from being buried under passing time.
What is going on in ISIS controlled Syria and Iraq defies credulity and logic. There has been no evil of this intensity, industry and sick creativity since the fall of the Nazi Party. No Soviet Gulag ever concealed the amputation of limbs. The war in Vietnam involved no attempt to impregnate the women of the enemy. Only Hitlerism at its most bestial merits comparison with the Islamic State.
Given how frequent the reports of death and destruction have become, it is only human to feel what popular sociologists call ‘compassion fatigue’; the tiring out of the capacity for shock or sympathy. While understandable, I really think we should fight that emotion. These are real people dying, and their suffering only has meaning if it is known and remembered and if conclusions are drawn from it.
Though Satanic from the get-go, Islamic State’s brutality has become distinctly theatrical of late, almost as if the savages are thrilled by the attention of the civilised world.
Today, polished and clear footage shows bearded militants embracing two blindfolded ‘homosexuals’ (the militants are said to have whispered words of forgiveness to the condemned, no doubt to raise hopes of a stay of execution). Shortly after, they are seen pelting the prisoners with sharp desert stones until their heads lose their shape, and dribble with purple blood. After the bodies stop twitching, the stoning relents, and the gathered throngs disperse.
Days before that, a lion-hearted Syrian who had campaigned locally against ISIS cruelty was made to kneel in the desert and shot point blank. Photographs were released of the murder.
Last week, 30 Ethiopic Christians were beheaded on the shores of Libya by ISIS fighters. Denied the most basic allowance of dignity, footage of their deaths was uploaded to the internet shortly afterwards.
Before that, a video depicted a young thief having his hand sliced off and the stump sown back up by an ISIS ‘doctor’ (if he is one, he disgraces the name of medicine). This insanitary and inhuman practice, relative to the other available retributions should perhaps be considered merciful.
Before this, photographs showed how a long line of Coptic Christians were made to kneel on the Libyan shoreline before being almost simultaneously beheaded, the massive ejaculations of blood from their necks turning the seawater deep red.
If ISIS ever had a point to make, they have surely made it.
It is very difficult to find the right words when talking about this. Terms like ‘savage’ and ‘beastly’ may offer short-term satisfaction, but they seem rather too mild when placed in captions under images like those described above. Even ‘evil’ doesn’t cut it; one must be more specific:
When mothers feel their children are threatened (especially newly born children), they can develop what is known in medicine as ‘hysterical strength’ – a superhuman toughness that is impossible under almost any other circumstance (at its most dramatic, a legend describes women lifting up cars to recover children trapped beneath).
ISIS fighters have achieved a kind of hysterical evil; a malice in excess of ordinary human potential. From its energy, it fuels its own perpetuation. Most people could never overpower their conscience to the degree necessary to behead a man in the morning, and then impregnate his daughter at night.
ISIS fighters are high on evil, thrilled by it, addicted to it, no longer fully in control of it, like rabid dogs. Needless to add, they have ceased to possess any human value and have thereby forfeited all human rights. Every further day they live is an abomination.
D, LDN.
What atrocities and great sadness. It is just heart breaking to bear witness even from afar and to be so powerless to do anything about it.
The West has failed millions of people, including women and children. It’s disgraceful.
And now the West fails itself by importing Islam right into the heart of Europe. I think we hate ourselves too much to survive Islam. There is a cancer in western thought and it is is crippling us.
Obama is ultimately to blame.
Really?
Yes, Obama could have crippled ISIS with heavy airstrikes. The pinprick surgical strikes being carried out have barely wounded ISIS. Israel manages to overcome Hamas very quickly.
I don’t think so.
Obama has been wise here. Much, much more wiser than George Bush II
This conflict has in many ways turned into an sectarian Islamic 30 years war.
Obama was really wise to keep America out of this conflict. It makes no sense for the West to lose men and material in a conflict in which both sides hate the West and are full of conspiracy theories.
Also, he is wise to (indirectly) strengthen Iran for these reasons.
Iran is a much more sane and modern country than Saudi Arabia and because the Shia as a whole are the best allies we have in this region as they are more threatened by the same enemies that threaten Western (& global) security.
Granted that the American politicians could have been more wiser in dealing with the real threats to America and the West, but, in my opinion Obama is the best of the bunch.
His last opponent John McCain is (naively)hysterically anti-Iran & anti-Assad and so stupid that at one point he was photographed with the so called ‘moderate’ opposition to Assad, who turned out to be hardcore Islamists!
And this was the guy that would have won the elections, if Obama had lost!
Iran must change its regime before any alliance can be formed. No deal is worth doing with a theocracy.
Muhammad would certainly be proud of ISIS, his most obedient, observant and pious disciples.
Indeed. They actively imitate the early Muslims.