MSNBC aired a very good documentary titled “ISIS and the Internet” last night. The documentary has very interesting footage of ISIS recruitment videos and an interview with a Canadian who ran off to ISIS and then came back. He explained, for instance, that he’d been motivated to join ISIS by the realization that he was never going to be successful in Canada. He wouldn’t be able to get a job, he said, because there was always a possibility that a Jew or a woman would be his boss, and as a devout Muslim he couldn’t allow for that to happen.
What I didn’t like about the documentary is how uncomfortable its creators are with the subject of religion and how eager they are to substitute the word “religion” with “culture” in the discussion of ISIS. The result of this clumsy verbal gymnastics is quite pathetic. We learn that ISIS kills Shiites because its goal is to eliminate “different cultures” and hear that militants destroyed statues in museums as part of some sort of a culture war. Even when a Muslim interviewee explains Islam’s position on human imagery, the narrator follows up with more of “it’s all about cultures.”
The most interesting part of the film is how artistic and deeply Hollywoodian ISIS’s videos are. Most of the videos can’t be shown on American TV because they feature murder and torture but what can be shown is purposefully visually stunning. Watch the documentary if you can, I recommend.
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If they wanted to they could easily distinguish between IS and other streams of Islam or even other extremist cults that practice Islam.
Not all <a href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam’>strains of Islam even prohibit representation of humans. It’s representing God which has the absolute prohibition. There’s tons of extant Mughal paintings of Mughal emperors, for example.
But that would require research or some 101 explanations.
He explained, for instance, that he’d been motivated to join ISIS by the realization that he was never going to be successful in Canada. He wouldn’t be able to get a job, he said, because there was always a possibility that a Jew or a woman would be his boss, and as a devout Muslim he couldn’t allow for that to happen.
It’s very striking how all of these assholes are motivated by “relative position in a hierarchy is all I have left to make me worthy as a human being and if it’s subverted I will die and my penis will fall off.”
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