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Jordan pilot hostage Moaz al-Kasasbeh 'burned alive'

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Gonna be interesting to see what Jordan's response to this is.

A video published online by Islamic State (IS) militants claims to show Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive.
The video, which could not immediately be verified, showed a man standing in a cage and engulfed in flames.

Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh was captured when his plane came down near Raqqa, Syria, in December on a mission to support the US-led military coalition against IS.

Jordan has been attempting to secure his release as part of a prisoner swap.T

he video was distributed via a Twitter account known as a source for IS propaganda.
 
News outlets need to stop reporting the means of ISIS executions. It encourages them to come up with more barbaric ways of killing people as part of their psychological warfare efforts.
 
Gonna be interesting to see what Jordan's response to this is.


Indeed it will be.....as the Jordanians threatened to Execute all ISIS members they have, if they killed him.
 
Indeed it will be.....as the Jordanians threatened to Execute all ISIS members they have, if they killed him.

Well I hope they have the balls to follow through, or ISIS is going to assume that they can get away with whatever they like from here on out.
 
News outlets need to stop reporting the means of ISIS executions. It encourages them to come up with more barbaric ways of killing people as part of their psychological warfare efforts.

This is important, because for Muslims, being burned to death, or even being burned after death is the worst possibility imaginable. They believe they can't get into heaven, if their body is burned.
 
This is important, because for Muslims, being burned to death, or even being burned after death is the worst possibility imaginable. They believe they can't get into heaven, if their body is burned.

It is still part of psychological warfare and the media is acting as their agents whether they intend to or not. Sure it is newsworthy and legitimate reporting, but isn't it a lot like school shooters--the more media attention the shootings are given, the more it plants the seed into somebody else's mind to do it themselves? I don't think there is a right or wrong position as far as the press, but if I were a media outlet, I would be having some pretty heady discussions about this issue to decide to what extent we should be reporting certain details knowing we are spreading the message the extremists want spread.
 
Well I hope they have the balls to follow through, or ISIS is going to assume that they can get away with whatever they like from here on out.


Looks like they will have to.....they did go Public.



Jordan to ISIS: If you kill the pilot, we’ll execute captive terrorists.....

Jordan has ramped up its threats to execute a terrorist whom the Islamic State wants set free if the terror group kills its captured pilot, according to a report. Jordanian officials said would-be bomber Sajida al-Rishawi and other Islamic State fighters would be “quickly judged and sentenced” if Muath al-Kaseasbeh is killed, the Daily Mail reported.

“I have reliable contact in the Jordanian government who says a message has been passed to ISIS,” said Elijah Magnier, chief international correspondent for Kuwait’s Al Rai newspaper. “It warns that if they kill the pilot, they will implement the death sentences for Sajida and other ISIS prisoners as soon as possible. There are other prisoners in Jordan that ISIS would like to free.”.....snip~

Jordan to ISIS: If you kill the pilot, we’ll execute captive terrorists | New York Post
 
It is still part of psychological warfare and the media is acting as their agents whether they intend to or not. Sure it is newsworthy and legitimate reporting, but isn't it a lot like school shooters--the more media attention the shootings are given, the more it plants the seed into somebody else's mind to do it themselves? I don't think there is a right or wrong position as far as the press, but if I were a media outlet, I would be having some pretty heady discussions about this issue to decide to what extent we should be reporting certain details knowing we are spreading the message the extremists want spread.

These twisted bastards don't need anyone to give them any ideas. They'll come up with them all by themselves.
 
These twisted bastards don't need anyone to give them any ideas. They'll come up with them all by themselves.

That you consider them twisted bastards is more or less what they want. They want to be feared.
 
Well I hope they have the balls to follow through, or ISIS is going to assume that they can get away with whatever they like from here on out.

Heap more appalling bestiality on the situation, that always ends well. ISIS don't give a ****, they do what they like already. Your way, they get more martyrs for the cause as well.
 
This is important, because for Muslims, being burned to death, or even being burned after death is the worst possibility imaginable. They believe they can't get into heaven, if their body is burned.


Looks like they are going to put the Jordanians to the test.....we should be dropping Napalm on them. So they cut down on the martydumbness.
 
That you consider them twisted bastards is more or less what they want. They want to be feared.

I don't understand how not calling them the twisted bastards they are is going to solve anything.
 
Heap more appalling bestiality on the situation, that always ends well. ISIS don't give a ****, they do what they like already. Your way, they get more martyrs for the cause as well.

I say we give them a ****load of martyrs.
 
That you consider them twisted bastards is more or less what they want. They want to be feared.

What about the infected, and we just gonna bring them their cure. Were just helping with their sickness. :2razz:
 
I don't understand how not calling them the twisted bastards they are is going to solve anything.

Psyops is a force multiplier. The US does it to "win hearts and minds". You are seeing ISIS go the other way with it.
 
What about the infected, and we just gonna bring them their cure. Were just helping with their sickness. :2razz:

The more twisted they seem, the faster people will run away when they come instead of standing up and fighting, which makes their task at hand exponentially easier--less resistance and fewer people to contain once they do win.
 
Gonna be interesting to see what Jordan's response to this is.

How positively enlightened and wonderful these JV, non-Islamic terrorists are.

News outlets need to stop reporting the means of ISIS executions. It encourages them to come up with more barbaric ways of killing people as part of their psychological warfare efforts.

As if ignoring it would make it any better? Better I think that all the world's people know of the barbarity of these people, so that when the attack on them finally does come, and it will, there is no excuse for 'not knowing' what it is that they've done, and to how many they've done it.
 
Well I hope they have the balls to follow through, or ISIS is going to assume that they can get away with whatever they like from here on out.

Agreed, as to my point above.
 
The more twisted they seem, the faster people will run away when they come instead of standing up and fighting, which makes their task at hand exponentially easier--less resistance and fewer people to contain once they do win.




Oh, I am sure they are looking to play with the weak willed, playing on fears, using intimidation tactics with their own.

In some aspects they are not different than a criminal organization.

From what I have seen they are not so worried with anyone. Playing with their heads, so to speak. Not from torture and not afraid to die. But this does not mean they cannot be affect psychologically with their deaths and with what they believe in.
 
I say we give them a ****load of martyrs.

They're winning the rightwing religious fear war. You're just aiding and abetting them from the sidelines by helping to spread it..
 
They're winning the rightwing religious fear war. You're just aiding and abetting them from the sidelines by helping to spread it..


Seems they were spreading without any of our help. You don't think the former US Chief of Staff for the Army got it wrong did you?





The former vice chief of staff of the Army warned the Senate Armed Services Committee today that al-Qaeda has “grown fourfold in the last five years.” “AQ and its affiliates exceeds Iran in beginning to dominate multiple countries,” retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane testified.

Using a term that the Obama administration now eschews, Keane called radical Islam “the major security challenge of our generation…”The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS, is an outgrowth from Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which was defeated in Iraq by 2009.” “After U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq in 2011, ISIS reemerged as a terrorist organization in Iraq, moved into Syria in 2012, and began seizing towns and villages from the Syria-Iraq border all the way to the western Syria from Aleppo to Damascus,” he reminded the committee.

That leads to an “unmistakable” conclusion that “our policies have failed,” Keane added.....snip~

Four-Star General Tells Congress: Al-Qaeda Has “Grown Four-Fold in Last Five Years” | The Gateway Pundit
 
Hello,

Sadly, the horrors spawned by the Muslim religion seem to know no bounds. As capitulation to Muslim ideology happens across the West, we become closer daily to this being a fact of life for nations that grew out of the medieval age.

Garion
 
Heap more appalling bestiality on the situation, that always ends well. ISIS don't give a ****, they do what they like already. Your way, they get more martyrs for the cause as well.

Once again, you make clear you don't want to do anything about these bastards except appease them. I'm sure they wish everyone in the West wanted the same.
 
They're winning the rightwing religious fear war. You're just aiding and abetting them from the sidelines by helping to spread it..


It's amusing to see you accusing other people of aiding and abetting Islamic jihadists.

I'd like to recommend a fine book by Andy McCarthy, "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America."
 
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