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Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks
An anonymous reader writes: As usual, Anonymous members are quicker to respond to threats than investigators and have announced #OpParis as revenge for the Paris attacks. Their action is similar to #OpISIS from this spring, launched after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Previously Anonymous ousted thousands of ISIS Twitter accounts in #OpISIS. In a more conventional response, the government of France has been bombarding ISIS positions in Syria with airstrikes, and hunting for suspect Salah Abdeslam in connection with Friday's killings.
You realize that Raqqah is one of the largest cities in Syria, right? People there don't have a choice about "working with Daesh". Daesh runs the city, and every city within a great distance around them. And does all sorts of measures to prevent people from leaving.
These are people living in a densely populated city. Their city is being bombed. This puts them at risk. Some targets are low civilian risk. Others are high civilian risk. France's sudden intensive wave of bombing means that they've shifted the dividing line on the amount of risk to civilians they're willing to take.
Where to start?
1) There were two separate programs: the Pentagon program and the CIA program. The Pentagon program was a total failure. The CIA program was an unexpectedly huge success (perhaps too much - the FSA's rapid advances and breakinto Latakia triggered Russia and Iran's freakout and doubling down in Syria).
2) None of the soldiers trained by the Pentagon "prompty joined Daesh". The first handful of soldiers were poorly inserted, in way too small numbers and unevenly. They never manged to form into a unit in Syria. Some of them never made it into Syria. Others made it into Syria but were captured by al-Nusra, only released after negotiators convinced al-Nusra that they were focused only on Daesh. The few that made it into Syria and weren't captured were too disorganized to form a unit.
The Pentagon program - in stark contrast to the CIA program - was a colossal failure. But let's not spew falsehoods about it.
Beyond all of this are other actions that have been taken that are not part of these "programs". Most recently has been the arming of the YPG and arab militias - nominally just the latter, so as not to tick off Turkey, but in practice both - to resist Daesh in northeastern Syria. This effort too has been quite success thusfar, although it's too young to really evaluate at this point, and there's some risk of future seeds of discord being sown.
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FTFY. Not-so-fun fact: If you are killed by an Islamist terrorist, you are eight times more likely to be Muslim than non-Muslim.
Maybe you could start by opening your home to a Syrian refugee. People fleeing the "death cult" are precisely the sort of people who could do with your help.
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In much the same way that being a good Christian does not require you to stone adulterers and people who wear cotton-poly blends, Christianity as a general system of faith does not inherently declare homosexuality to be sinful. Jesus gave a new covenant, superseding the Old Testament laws, including that one. The only New Testament bits about homosexuality are in Paul's writing, and that translation is considered dubious by many biblical scholars. So although one could argue that Christians of certain specific denominations are "bad" in some sense of the word if they don't consider homosexuality to be a sin, you can't generalize that to all of Christianity.
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Yes you do. Well, no, you don't because you're a willfully ignorant twat. However, they do give aid to Africans. I can dig out a shitton of evidence but will you accept Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In 2006, the Saudi government gave $10 million in aid to the horn of Africa, through the World Food Programme, of which Kenya received $2 million.[19] Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talal donated $1 million to help feed 3.5 million Kenyans during the drought.[20]
I'm sure that I can dig out more. So yes, I *do* see the Saudis giving out aid, specifically, to help with famines in Africa. You do not see it because you will not see it. I can see, now, why you'd want to post as an AC.
Over the past decade Saudi Arabia has been the 19th largest government provider of humanitarian assistance.
http://www.globalhumanitariana...
There are enough things to be angry about without having to make up new things to be angry about. Ignorance is catchy, others will see your post and believe it. Stop being ignorant or, if you must, do so in private.
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