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Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them
An anonymous reader writes in with this story about the latest weapon used by ISIS: doxing. "Middle East terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) has called on its followers take the fight to 100 members of the United States military residing in the US. A group calling itself the 'Islamic State Hacking Division' has posted names, addresses, and photographs of soldiers, sailors, and airmen online, asking its 'brothers residing in America' to murder them, according to Reuters. Although the posting purports to come from the 'Hacking Division,' US Department of Defense officials say that none of their systems appear to have been breached by the group. Instead, the personal data was almost certainly culled from publicly available sources, a DoD official told the New York Times on the condition of anonymity."
The military needs to post a few names and addresses themselves. They'll look like regular houses but they'll actually be guard posts. If anyone shows up and starts shooting, they end up dead.
Targeting those with the ability to shoot back seems like a less than cunning plan.
How does that even work is the list millions of names long? It is not like any of this is highly guarded secret. If someone in america wants ti kill soldiers they would not need some random internet list to find any.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Actually, it is very much about religion. At its core, Daesh is a religious movement for control of Islam. The Koran backs much of what they do. Islam never had a reformation like Christianity and Judaism. The latter have effectively jettisoned those parts of "scripture" which are just plain wicked. In essence, humanity has triumphed over religion in those two cases (i.e., the Greeks won). Islam has never had a reformation. And it doesn't appear likely it will anytime soon because anyone attempting it is usually killed as being apostate. It is the triumph of the Mullahs and Imams, two classes of the least responsible people to lead a religion. They answer to no one, even Allah. The reason, Allah is so other He cannot be bothered to talk to Man personally, even Muhammad was talked to by Gabriel, an angel. Well, if hearing voiced makes you holy, then we have many holy people walking around today, we also have many institutionalized. Ever talk to the mentally ill, they are frequently very religious. Muhammad goes off to the mountains in his thirties and hears voices, so it must be Gabriel...late stage schizophrenia, classic case.
Ever read closely what the current crop of Islamic nutjobs spout? Read the Harvard Guide to Psychiatry to properly place their mental illnesses. It is very revealing.