The Uncoolness of Extremists

One of the best ways to discredit extremist movements is to make them look ridiculous, so that joining or backing them is seen as stupid, uncool, or embarrassing.

Is that an adult person with a functioning brain writing? “Uncool”? People join extremist organizations, murder, blow up, rape and torture because nobody informed them that it was “uncool” to do that?

Of course, a crowd of infantile 50-year-olds is busily reposting this bit of air-headed idiocy. And hey, that’s the most intelligent bit of the article I quoted. The rest is even dumber.

7 thoughts on “The Uncoolness of Extremists

  1. How much more depraved can ISIS get? Group’s Sharia judges order children with Down’s syndrome and other disabilities to be killed in chilling echo of the Nazis

    ISIS has reportedly issued fatwa ordering disabled children be killed

    Iraqi activist group claims more than 38 disabled children already killed

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358840/How-depraved-ISIS-Group-s-Sharia-judges-order-children-s-syndrome-disabilities-killed-chilling-echo-Nazis.html

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  2. Since your state is mentioned:

    \ CHICAGO – A former Illinois National Guard soldier has pleaded guilty to charges he conspired to provide material support to the Islamic State group.

    Hasan Edmonds of Aurora, Illinois, entered the plea in Chicago federal court Monday, a week after his cousin, Jonas Edmonds, pleaded guilty to similar charges. They are accused of plotting to attack the Joliet Armory with assault rifles and grenades.

    Prosecutors alleged that Jonas Edmonds planned to wear his cousin’s military uniform in the attack at the facility where Hasan Edmonds trained. Charges alleged the pair hoped to kill as many as 150 people.

    Hasan Edmonds is to be sentenced March 18 and faces up to 30 years in prison. Jonas Edmonds is to be sentenced Jan. 27 and faces up to 23 years in prison.

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  3. I’m old enough to remember “Be cool, stay in school!” and also remember how pathetic it was.

    Maybe now it could be

    “Jihadi school, it’s not so cool”

    That would be just about as effective.

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    1. \ I’m old enough to remember “Be cool, stay in school!”

      Reminded of:

      We Real Cool
      Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917 – 2000

                      THE POOL PLAYERS. 
                     SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
      

      We real cool. We
      Left school. We

      Lurk late. We
      Strike straight. We

      Sing sin. We
      Thin gin. We

      Jazz June. We
      Die soon.

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