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Leaked Islamic State Documents Identify Thousands of Jihadis (sky.com)

itwbennett writes: Sky News reports that it was handed a USB stick with 'tens of thousands of documents' detailing phone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State members by 'a disillusioned convert' to Islamic State. 'One of the files marked 'Martyrs' detailed a brigade manned entirely by fighters who wanted to carry out suicide attacks and were trained to do so,' according to Sky News. CSO Online's Steve Ragan had a little fun at ISIS' expense and worked up a data breach notification that ISIS HR is free to use should they so choose.

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  1. Re:2013 by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The link I found about this claims the information is years out of date.

    The date of the documents suggested they may not provide information on the group's current membership, but could offer insight into fighters recruited in 2013 as well as its bureaucratic systems.

    As I understand it ISIS is basically a different system now than it was in 2013. Still it should provide a huge number of places to investigate. Godspeed, FBI.

    And Rupert Murdoch set about telling the world before letting anyone investigate in private before the hypothetical bad guys all run and hide.

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  2. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by EmeraldBot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can anyone explain to me why Islam is considered a religion of peace? Most of the terror in the world today is committed by Muslims. They control many totalitarian states that are particularly abysmal with respect to human rights. Why are there so many apologists for Islam? There's much outrage when a Christian-owned bakery refuses to cater for an LGBT wedding but there's silence when Muslims commit acts of violence against nonbelievers. Why is Islam given a free pass when they do far worse things? Islam is far more repressive than Christianity, but somehow this is tolerated. Why?

    Because you haven't mentioned Christian or Buddhist terrorists who do the same thing. Islam's beliefs are old fashioned and in my opinion not very well adapted to the modern world, but there are many perfectly normal and sane muslims who don't support terrorists. Islam is not the cause of terrorism, or else all muslims would be violent and psychopathic individuals: the cause of terrorism is hundreds of years of violence and some very horrible leaders, where blowing yourself up is probably viewed as a pleasant escape by many of the people who do it.

    When your baker turns away an LGBT couple, he's doing so soley because of his religious beliefs, and for no other reason; when a Jihadist blows himself up, thinking that Islam is the sole cause is extremely short sighted and a sign of someone who's research extends as far as what appears on Fox news.

    Just to be clear, I do not support terrorism or the horrible acts being committed in the middle east; I have absolutely no sympathy for ISIS, and anyone who would blow themselves up or torture people who don't "follow the faith" deserve to burn in their version of hell. However, I will not fall victim to discriminating, as seems to be very popular in the United States these days, and you should be ashamed of yourself for sinking to that level.

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  3. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by Tranzistors · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by guestapoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In Buddhism, there is no 'martyr', that is they don't encourage for 'be ready to die for your religion'.
    Monk like the ones mentioned in the article will have karma 'Terrible' and his life will be buried in '-1: Redundant' mod.

  5. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by Mashiki · · Score: 5, Interesting

    However, I will not fall victim to discriminating, as seems to be very popular in the United States these days, and you should be ashamed of yourself for sinking to that level.

    Disclaimer: I'm a Canuck.

    You don't need to fall to discriminating. Non-western Muslims have done that all on their own, and in some cases western muslims especially those that are first or second generation. Fun reminder: It was CAIR who told muslims not cooperate with police, and it was also CAIR who were unindicted co-conspirators in funding terrorism. It was also various muslims(mainly fundamentalist) who attacked reformists who told police and security services that the police *should* be investigating mosques and in turn keeping a very watchful eye on muslims that go to mosques that are preaching fundamentalism. There's a schism without a doubt, and right now it's reformist vs fundamentalist. And many in the west would rather bury their head in the sand over it.

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  6. Re:media double standard on dangerous leaks by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    as i said, i am just pointing out this is a double standard

    No it's not, it's patriotism. Supporting your own government while helping quash another is not a double standard.

  7. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um, he said:

    Just to be clear, I do not support terrorism or the horrible acts being committed in the middle east; I have absolutely no sympathy for ISIS, and anyone who would blow themselves up or torture people who don't "follow the faith" deserve to burn in their version of hell.

    That doesn't sound like a "leftist" defending Islamist killers.

    Islamists are responsible for about 5% of terror attacks in the US and 2% in Europe. Of course, there are other issues in Europe right now to do with the migrant crisis, but we are talking about terrorism here. Globally Muslims are responsible for about 10% of terrorist acts. Most importantly, the chance of being affected by Islamic terrorism is vanishingly small, much less so than the chance of being affected by homophobia for example.

    So don't try to compare to the two. They are very different and we can care about both. Putting effort into fixing one does not mean we don't care about the other, but undeniably working on LGBT rights is likely to have much more impact on many more people's lives than crapping our pants over Islamic terrorism is.

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  8. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Christians and others expanded similarly except with Islam it's quite a bit more pronounced handbook for take over and oppression.

    The specific parts about taking over and killing heathens is in the part that is common between the Abrahamic religions.
    Everything that encourages violence in Islam is exactly the same in Christianity and Judaism.

    I don't know exactly where it is in each book, but for Christianity you should check Deuteronomy, Exodus and Leviticus in the Bible.
    It is repeated several times over to kill anyone of the wrong faith. It also explicitly tells believers to kill all gay men (Not lesbians for some reason.) and advocates murder of adulterers. The encouragement to kill sorceresses and fortune tellers shouldn't be much of a problem unless you believe in them too.
    Isaiah 14:21 demands that sons are killed if the father commits such a crime to prevent criminality to spread through genetics.
    Jeremiah 48:10 says that anyone who refrains form killing in the name of God should be cursed.

    Granted, the Bible has some encouragement for violence even in the part that it doesn't share with the other two like Luke 19:27 and Matthew 10:34, but those are testaments rather than encouragement to others.

    Anyway, whenever you see someone state things in the Quran to show that Islam encourages violence it is most likely in the part that is shared with the old testament and Christianity has the exact same phrase.
    I do not know enough about the Quran to say if there are unique parts of it that encourages violence. Every time I've seen violent parts quoted it has always been thins I recognize from the Bible.

  9. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by sumdumass · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More likely because the Christians will yell and scream at you while the Islamist groups if given the opportunity will outright kill you when you make crap up and distort their religion, religious characters, or religious sources.

  10. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably the most perversely funny thing I've ever seen on television news was a decade or more ago when two sects of Buddhist monks were fighting over possession of a temple on a street corner. The streets were full of bald men in robes going at it with quarterstaffs.

    (I half expected to see Jackie Chan come crawling out of the side of the crowd.)

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  11. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by MorePower · · Score: 5, Interesting

    even many moderate muslims who wouldn't dream of stooping to violence themselves would vote for sharia law if it was brought to a vote.

    So why doesn't Indonesia have Sharia law yet? The country is 80% Muslim yet the democratically elected party in power cracks down as hard as it can on Islamic terrorists. The party that lost the election also cracks down as hard as it can on Islamic terrorist (when they were in power). The 2 biggest parties seem to compete on who cracks down on Islamic terrorists the most.

    The party that runs on a platform of Sharia law? They can't get enough votes to get a single representative in parliament. In an 80% Muslim country.

    it seems to me that if you actually give Muslims a chance to vote, they don't seem to favor hard-line fundamentalism. It's only if you screw around with their voting (or have no voting at all) that Islamic fundamentalism takes hold. And even then, the hard-liners have to constantly, heavily enforce their rules and literally beat the populous into submission.

  12. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by Rockoon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here in Europe we don't have a problem with terrorists or with muslims

    The people that worked for Charlie Hebdo would disagree with you if they werent killed by fucking terrorists, and Muslims.

    Europe has had a problem with specifically Muslim terrorists for literally hundreds of years you ignorant apologist twat. They also have a big problem with non-Muslim terrorists you ignorant apologist twat.

    The only reason to open your mouth and be that ignorant is if you really dont give a fuck about actually saying things that arent demonstrably wrong.

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  13. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by ledow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're a cock.

    Replace Muslim/Islam with Vegetarian/Vegetarianism to see why.

    Some vegetarians gathered at the local supermarket and killed someone? Raped someone? Shit, all vegetarians need to be arrested / exterminated, no? Fucking idiot.

    You have a correlation (the terrorists in this case are claiming to follow Islam), not a causation (Islam did not make them terrorists - there are MILLIONS of Islamic people who are not terrorist that you want to conveniently ignore, like there are millions of vegetarians who didn't shove cucumbers up people's arses in protest)..

    Not even that, the correlation is tenuous. I'm British. We're far from new to terrorism, on either side of the coin. Fuck, we spent most of the 80's/90's being bombed to oblivion by the IRA.

    The IRA? Formed, if you dig deep enough, because of two main groups in opposition to each other, colloquially assigned as "Catholics" and "Protestants". Are Catholics bombers? Are Protestants? Like with the vegetarians - some but not all, and they aren't bombers because they are protestant, they are bombers who happen to ALSO BE lumped into a religious group (somewhat unfairly, in fact, and Ireland was divided and referred to for many years by such religious groupings rather than, say, those who opposed British rule and those who didn't).

    The last bomber I saw on the news was a car driver. Are car drivers all bombers? Or was this bomber just happening to be a car driver? Or... maybe.. if you want to discredit some group you become a bomber and SAY you part of their organisation. Is there an "Islamist Club" membership card or do we just have the words of some passer-by interviewed for the news story.

    Take your fucking blinkered, DANGEROUS, racist, religionist and ignorant views, and the implications and accusations that you put with them and go sit with the fucking dunce in the corner.

    What's dangerous is anyone's RELIGION being more important than how they deal with people. Christians - if you generalise over history - forcibly colonised most of the world to "convert" people. It's the conversion that's the problem, not the particular religion they choose to convert you to.

    Stop being a cock.

  14. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by SuricouRaven · · Score: 3, Informative

    Christians used to be just as oppressive, so the religion does have the capability if circumstances are suited.

  15. Re:Can anyone explain to me why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Christians flew planes into buildings killing thousands of innocents in a single attack? I must have missed a week of news.

    Oh, you are saying they USED to be as bad. Well, the DNC is the party that fought tooth and nail to keep slavery, fought against the Civil Rights Act, and took back in 49 of the 53 Dixicrats that wanted to keep blacks suppressed. In fact they also had a former KKK leader as a top official. Oh, wait, that was only a couple decades ago and doesn't matter, what matters is what happened over 1000 years ago.