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In reply to the discussion: ISIS 'beheads teenage boys for listening to pop music and missing Friday prayers' [View all]CincyDem
(7,457 posts)54. ISIS seems to be a lot like our good friends Saudi Arabia
Averaging 3 executions/week (predominantly via beheading although hanging and the crowd pleasing crucifixion are still in vogue).
I'm not sure they've gone after pop music listeners who miss prayers but with 3/week, who can keep up. The weirdest one I read about was the guy from Lebanon who was found guilty of being a sorcerer. And to add to the brutality, the Kingdom has moved away from using sedatives in advance of the execution.
So yeah - pretty terrible that ISIS does stuff like this but other than the fact that one group says "we want to kill americans" in public and the other only says it in private...these guys are different from the House of Saud how ?
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ISIS 'beheads teenage boys for listening to pop music and missing Friday prayers' [View all]
MariaThinks
Feb 2016
OP
Like the roving SS death squads looking for "traitors" as Germany collapsed around them NT
Ex Lurker
Feb 2016
#2
Thanks George W. Bush for invading Iraq and destroying the state so ISIS could arise.
guillaumeb
Feb 2016
#3
I asked about Saudi Arabia because I have seen nothing recently about the Saudis.
guillaumeb
Feb 2016
#69
you don't want the west involved, but then you say that hussein killed the kurds
MariaThinks
Feb 2016
#85
there is a huge difference between helping or supporting countries and assassinating leaders
MariaThinks
Feb 2016
#87
A good question. And the US, after destroying a country, will never admit that it bears
guillaumeb
Feb 2016
#18