Are you scared of ISIS?

[Cali_Democrat]

With every beheading, the media goes nuts and tries to convince us that ISIS is going to kill us all.

Personally, I'm skeptical of the media-driven narrative that ISIS is a grave threat. I don't think they're much of a threat to America.

So, has the media convinced you yet? Are you scared of ISIS?

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[bigwillq]

1. No (nt)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Erect Bogeyman, wave flag, declare we need protection, give more money to the MIC.

[Erose999]

3. I'm more scared of ICEE than ISIS

Brain freeze is a motherfucker.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. LOL!

[msanthrope]

13. They both give brain freeze to CNN. nt

[spanone]

4. this headline has been on cnn.com all day.....

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http://www.cnn.com

[Cali_Democrat]

6. Look at the front page headline at CNN.com right now

ISIS....Apocalypse!!!

Good lord.

[F4lconF16]

22. Wow that is depressing.

It really was that bad.

[Tsiyu]

29. OMG

The Rapture Ready must be in apoplexy.

[spanone]

30. it's still up....link

http://www.cnn.com

[Tsiyu]

32. It's just tabloid pablum designed to stir up the stupid

I gave it a click to see if it was legit, but I won't bring myself to read that sensationalist drivel.

I can imagine they didn't do any comparison to our own end-times-believers, did they? Like the couple that offed themselves and their kids recently? Or the Seventh Day Adventist dude running for president ( will not give him any recognition ) who recently hinted that believers might just poison non-believers?

They've threatened and killed more folks in "murrica than ISIS.

[global1]

41. I Don't Have Enough Information On ISIS To Know If I Should Be Afraid......

Do we know how big a force ISIS is (i.e.,how many soldiers/men they have)?

Where are they located? Are they spread out over a wide area or are they concentrated in a few places?

Who arms them (i.e., where do they get their supply and resupply of weapons)?

Are they just a ground force or do they have air and sea support?

Are they that elusive and spread out that all the bombing that was directed at them hasn't wiped them out?

Before I can say whether or not I'm afraid of ISIS I'm going to need to have answers to these questions. So far all I hear about are abductions, ransoms, beheadings, burning, etc and I'm being told by MSM and the pols in D.C. that I should be afraid of them.

We've been lied to before. So until somebody starts providing the facts about this group - I'm going to reserve my answer.

[Petrushka]

42. The Islamic State awaits the army of “Rome,” whose defeat at Dabiq, Syria, will initiate . . .

The Islamic State awaits the army of “Rome,” whose defeat at Dabiq, Syria, will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse.

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

[spanone]

44. jeebus....

[Fawke Em]

49. Meh. The fundamentalist Christians started it.

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[avebury]

57. There are forces at work within this country that are

far more competent to reach that end game. ISIS pales in comparison. The Republicans and Tea Party crowd scream ISIS as a purely diversionary tactic.

[abelenkpe]

59. My parents think we are in a holy war

Against the forces of evil (Islam/Isis) and that these are end times. They are catholic tea party conservatives so this Isis apocalypse stuff has already been bought and sold to the Fox News set too.

Really who watches network news anymore? It's ridiculous. Pumping fear and lies nonstop into every household.

[spanone]

61. catholic tea party conservatives...never even considered that combo

i was raised catholic till i was in my mid teens...

[Thav]

63. We've been living in the end times for some 2000 years.

At least according to various groups.

Just replace "ISIS" with the apocalyptic group du jour and the article would read the same.

[Turbineguy]

5. No.

But then again, I am not a Muslim living in their area.

[Scuba]

7. No, but the Koch brothers frighten me.

[guillaumeb]

9. I am scared of acronyms like

GOP
NRA
FOX
CBS
NBC
ABC

The media obsession with grave threats is infotainment at its worst. Bread and circuses for the idiots.

This week measles is the existential threat. Last week was ISIS. Before that it was the Bird Flu, male pattern baldness, erection issues, obesity, Saddam Hussein, the Germans, the Japanese, the Communists hiding under the beds, the threat of nuclear holocaust. On and on until no one can think.

[bigwillq]

10. You forgot EBOLA!!!!!!!111

[msanthrope]

15. I still haven't taken down the plastic sheeting and duct tape. nt

[bigwillq]

18. I'm still wearing a mask. It's airborne, right?!!!111

[msanthrope]

20. I think it's time to wash the containment suit, though.....nt

[bigwillq]

21. Oh, I'll make sure to by next Halloween.

I'm going as Ebola again.

[msanthrope]

25. Pictures, or this thread is useless......nt

[bigwillq]

28. All good things to those who wait.

Halloween is just 8 months ago!

[el_bryanto]

11. I'm concerned about them; but not afraid.

That said I'm not sure that military action is a good idea.

Bryant

[msanthrope]

12. I'm scared of what ISIS will do to people more vulnerable than us.

I think the Administration seems to have good intelligence on interdicting any actions here (see, AQAP, Anwar Awlaki.)

But I worry for ethnic and religious minorities subject to them......and our troops, our foreign service, and aid workers.

We should rightly assess their capabilities, and act intelligently.

[FSogol]

16. +1 n/t

[msanthrope]

17. These are crazy-ass fuckers.....but their reach seems limited.

So I think we should be concerned....but not crazy back at them.

[Dont call me Shirley]

14. As usual, the representation of divine energy (Isis) is turned in to something violent (ISIS)

http://7f806a126ecdaf0cc8f0-0e939f13a06bd1dbeb5309286eaa14e5.r25.cf5.rackcdn.com/05_matthews.pdf

[FreakinDJ]

19. Its a Push-Poll

No I'm not scared

Do the innocent civilians of those countries need relief from 1000s of lives being taken - yes absolutely

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

23. I'm on the fence

I don't think they're going to sweep the land and enslave us. But I fear for people in the middle east who are in their path and also for Europeans if they suddenly decided to engage in many multiple attacks within a short period. I don't fear that they will come over the horizon in Los Angeles, turning our malls and strip clubs into mosques and beheading everyone in sight.

[LanternWaste]

24. I don't perceive any potential threat posed by ISIS as a media-driven narrative.

I don't perceive any potential threat posed by ISIS as a media-driven narrative.

But, I imagine I'm wrong, and ISIS is this week's threat to better ignore gas prices, which was the threat the week before that to distract us from Ukraine, which was a threat designed to dissuade us from thinking about ISIS...

[winter is coming]

26. As I said in another thread, I'm more afraid of police, and I'm not even a POC. n/t

[Tsiyu]

27. No, because I don't have a TV

So I don't catch all of the nightly broadcasts:

"America! This is your NEW ENEMY!!!!

Now, HATE!!!

Oh, yeah. And don't pay any attention to that man slicing your Constitution into useless ribbons!!!! It doesn't mean a thing, really."

I can't say I miss those messages at all.

[riderinthestorm]

31. Personally no. For those in the path of ISIS? Absolutely yes

That still doesn't mean I want US troops in that battle

[kimbutgar]

33. I'm more scared of the damage that the Koch Bros and the republican party will do to this country.

Kochthugs are more scary to me than ISIS.

[H2O Man]

34. No.

Good OP, which raises an interesting thought: which is more of a threat to our constitutional democracy -- ISIS or the corporate media? And I mention that seriously, for I recognize that, for those who live in a section of the Middle East, ISIS is a definite threat. And a very serious one.

However, as a resident of upstate New York, who still believes in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream, I find the corporate media far more threatening to our way of life.

I'm not sure if I've expressed myself properly on this.

[pampango]

35. Not a threat to America but we are all in this together. n/t

[treestar]

36. Not for me

Maybe for people who are where they are.

[Lefta Dissenter]

37. Because my son is in the Foreign Service

and specializes in the Middle East, I have to be honest and say that I am - for him, for his friends and co-workers, and most of all for the Middle Easterners whose everyday lives have been consumed by this horror.

[onehandle]

38. I'm scared of another Republican administration to create another ISIS. nt

[nruthie]

39. Not scared, but worried.

To see hordes of people being burnt to death and decapitated disturbs me greatly. This is 2015, not the dark ages. Whether or not we personally believe in the apocalypse stuff, they do and they want to get on with it. My Christian evangelical friends believe it too. To me this is seriously something to be a little concerned about. With extremism on both sides, who is going to be reasonable? We can laugh at the utter stupidity of their thinking if we want to, but they are not laughing. These are not rational people and they WANT to kill everyone who doesn't agree with them; they have no desire to discuss this. They will kill or be killed. Period.

[bigwillq]

40. Congrats on 100 posts!

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

55. This is 2015, not 20th Century America.

fyp

We were still much worse a number of decades ago.

[Lurks Often]

43. For myself, of course not, for the region, yes

Of course I don't plan on going anywhere near the Middle East either, if I lived there my answer would be different I'm sure.

[Roland99]

45. Heck no! I had a crush on her as a kid!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072516/

[geek tragedy]

46. As an immediate threat to me, no.

For millions of Kurds, Iraqis and Syrians I am scared.

[Cali_Democrat]

47. kick

[Initech]

48. Definitely not the one that Sterling Archer is a member of.

[FrodosPet]

50. I'm not scared for my personal safety

I am scared of the threat they present in a large part of the world.

I am scared of the fact that they not only have an apocalyptic vision, but that they see themselves as active players in the end of the world.

I am scared of how they inflame the Sunni-Shia divide, and how the longer they are active, the further west they draw Iran.

[ileus]

51. Saving the earth one carbon footprint at a time.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

52. No. No. No.

[whathehell]

53. I will be when I travel to Europe this spring.

Here, not so much.

[merrily]

54. Pass: Am I scared enough to stay out of Middle East? Maybe. But then again, I wasn't planning a

trip there any time soon anyway.

Am I more scared of Isis killing me in the US than I am of, for example, falling on Boston's icy, snow laden streets and sidewalks? No.

[Warpy]

56. Only that their savagery is going to suck us into yet another war.

This one is
Not
Our
Fight.

[jimlup]

58. Not afraid of them - revolted by them

They are an example of how cruel and evil human beings can become.

[sabrina 1]

60. No, no more scared than I was of Iraq. The war propaganda scares me far more. The neocons

are still on the loose, and pushing for WAR once again.

[Generic Brad]

62. They are two bit thugs

They are not so tough outside of their little neighborhood. They are pitiful, not fear invoking. Their mothers must be so ashamed of their behavior.