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Erik Wemple writes at the Washington Post that Fox News recently took the controversial step of posting a horrific 22-minute video online that shows Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned to death warning internet users that the presentation features "extremely graphic video." "After careful consideration, we decided that giving readers of FoxNews.com the option to see for themselves the barbarity of ISIS outweighed legitimate concerns about the graphic nature of the video," said Fox executive John Moody. "Online users can choose to view or not view this disturbing content."
But Fox's decision drew condemnation from some terrorism experts. "[Fox News] are literally — literally — working for al-Qaida and ISIS's media arm," said Malcolm Nance. "They might as well start sending them royalty checks." YouTube removed a link to the video a few hours after it was posted, and a spokesperson for Facebook told the Guardian that if anyone posted the video to the social networking site it would be taken down. CNN explained that it wouldn't surface any of the disturbing images because they were gruesome and constituted propaganda that the network didn't want to distribute. "Does posting this video advance the aims of this terror group or hinder its progress by laying bare its depravity?" writes Wemple. "Islamic State leaders may indeed delight in the distribution of the video — which could be helpful in converting extremists to its cause — but they may be mis-calibrating its impact. If the terrorists expected to intimidate the world with their display of barbarity, they may be disappointed with the reaction of Jordan, which is vowing "strong, earth-shaking and decisive" retaliation."
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday February 07 2015, @08:22PM
But for obvious reasons none of those women are women who were stoned to death. And they're all still owned by someone, they are ultimately property, anything else is unislamic.
And for the same reason none of them are gay.
There's not much reason to “defend” Iran, you can ski in Saudi Arabia (or one of their puppet states) as well. In both places you can also drown in a burka on the beach if you want to try swimming.
Learn from Syriza and stop propagating outdated trench warfare along dead borders based on who associated with who during the cold war. Syriza is in coalition with the new right in Greece: Independent Greeks (ANEL) [wikipedia.org]. Both UKIP and Front Nationale have praised Syriza for standing up for Greece. Greece has to stop the zergling rush though, otherwise nothing will work (and the same goes for everyone else across Europe).
Meanwhile in Rotherdam the tally of victims keeps increasing while “people”/media pretend it isn't symptomatic.
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(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday February 07 2015, @09:02PM
I think you know little about Iran and Iranians. "Property"? There are more religious views of women in lower classes - true. But Iranian women vote and run in campaigns. Iranian women have property rights independent of their male relatives or married status.
Iranians will always be Iranian-Indo-Aryan people first, above other cultural and ideological trends. It's thousands of years old...
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday February 07 2015, @09:08PM
Saudi women are stoned for driving. Iranian women lead the nation's Formula 1 circuit... :-)
500 pages of things that would have Saudis imprisoned - or Hasidim, for that matter!
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=351718 [skyscrapercity.com]
You're betting on the pantomime horse...