Because you had lowered the content of the debate to the level of a fourteen year old's twitter fit, I had decided enough was enough. However:
I don't mind a good debate but yikes.. at some point and time one must concede.
If there were something for me to concede, I would. You have done nothing but run from your initial post ever since I challenged it. In post number three you made these comments:
And every time someone posts a thread like this, it gives ISIS the publicity and recognition they are seeking.
This thread and all threads related to this should be deleted.
You are basically helping feed their desire for spreading terror.
Which was a ridiculous, inane, seriously flawed argument then and nothing you have said since has served to repair the damage. A thread on CF helping feed the desire for ISIS to spread terror? The very definition of specious. Additionally such an argument is evidence on its face you know little to nothing of Islamic terrorist and what fuels their desire to spread terror. That, or you are simply parroting the standard lib/prog argument Islamic terrorism is ultimately the fault of someone else.
Earlier I cited the death of journalist James Foley at the hands of ISIS. The video was posted online without apparent thought or concern for what consequences the act itself, or running the video on Youtube, might invoke. What followed was an intensified air campaign against them, a campaign which accounted for the deaths of some 6,000 ISIS fighters. From CNN:
"The Pentagon confirmed Friday its estimate that U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have killed about 6,000 ISIS fighters since the air campaign began in August."
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/23/politics/pentagon-isis-casualties-territory/
You cited the death of Jordanian pilot Mauth al-Kaseasbeh. Following that incident strike aircraft pilots did not refuse to fly missions out of fear. Just the opposite occurred. Again from CNN, quote:
Karak, Jordan (CNN) Two days after news emerged that ISIS had burned a captive Jordanian pilot to death, the Middle Eastern nation hit back, and is promising more.
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/05/world/isis-jordan/index.html
Likewise the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians at the hands of ISIS resulted in airstrikes launched by the Egyptian Air Force. Again from CNN:
Egyptian warplanes bomb ISIS targets in Libya after killings of Christians
(CNN) Egypt's military carried out a series of airstrikes against ISIS militants in Libya on Monday in retaliation for the slaughter of 21 Egyptian Christians by the jihadist group.
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/16/middleeast/isis-libya-egypt/index.html
Contrary to what some here may believe, ISIS is a religious group acting upon religious beliefs. Quote:
"Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, 'the Prophetic methodology,' which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn't actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combated, has already led the United States to underestimate it."
Source: Graeme Wood, the Atlantic Magazine article "What ISIS Really Wants." (Pay per view.)
They seek to establish the Islamic
caliphate, and to achieve that they do not need people to talk about them on CF. They need increased Western response. In order to achieve that goal they are willing to engage in whatever barbaric activity their psychotic minds can conjure. Wailing about a discussion concerning ISIS on a forum board, which is how you started this entire conversation, will have zero impact on what ISIS wants. Closing this thread down and deleting it will have zero impact on what ISIS wants. Please.
In other news, from the Gatestone Institute:
Why Belgium is Ground Zero for European Jihadis
The terrorist attacks on the airport and metro in Brussels are casting a spotlight, once again, on Belgium's ignominious role as a European haven for jihadists.
Several distinct but interconnected factors help explain why Brussels, the political capital of Europe, has emerged as the jihadist capital of Europe.
Source:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7677/belgium-jihadists
