Gathering Storm in the Mideast

[jordan179]

As many may now be aware, a radical Islamofascist organization, ISIS, which had been fighting in the Syrian Civil War, has now invaded Iraq.  With amazing speed, they have vanquished one Iraqi military formation after another, and are wreaking dreadful atrocities on the helpless civilian population.  Mosul and Tikrit have fallen.  Advancing ISIS

Comments

[whitetail]

Only Iran can stop ISIS now. If they don't, and soon, the Shi'a in Iraq will be slaughtered en masse, and the holy sites Najaf and Karbala will be reduced to rubble, never to rise again. The Persian ayatollahs will not/cannot allow this to happen. Iran. Must. Act. Now.

[ford_prefect42]

I am not seeing the downside to the destruction of Muslim holy locations. There are entirely too many of them.

[whitetail]

*chuckle* Not an issue for me, either. Just sayin' Iran might have a problem with it. Let 'em all kill each other off AFAIC.

[ford_prefect42]

My family a while back started referring to the population of the middle east as "Armorfiends", from the "Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax" a species so belligerent that the best way of dealing with them is to simply not be in the room, as, if left alone, they will eventually resort to beating themselves up.

[gothelittle]

What about the earliest sites of the oldest Christian churches?

[ford_prefect42]

far, far less okay with that. For 2 reasons. 1) Early Christianity has far fewer holy locations. Islam claims basically the entire middle east as "holy ground". 2) The Christians are not GIANT A-HOLES about their holy sites, and don't do things like declaring entire cities off limits to non-Christians.

[montieth]

Small point but the holy place destructions is actually an objective of the hard core muslim types. It's the moderates more likely to go for introspection that would want to keep the holy places.

The hard core wahhabbi's have this as an objective.