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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 10:19 AM Jan 2015

ISIS execute 13 football fans by firing squad for watching Iraq play Jordan on TV

ISIS militants have executed 13 teenage boys for watching the Asian Cup football match between Iraq and Jordan last week.

The young football fans had been caught watching the game on television in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which is controlled by the Islamic State.

The teenagers were rounded up and publicly executed by a firing squad using machine guns, anti-ISIS activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reports.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2917071/ISIS-execute-13-football-fans-firing-squad-watching-Iraq-play-Jordan-TV-Islamist-controlled-Mosul.html#ixzz3PSvou4rP

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ISIS execute 13 football fans by firing squad for watching Iraq play Jordan on TV (Original Post) oberliner Jan 2015 OP
I'm pretty sure that we will be informed that this has nothing to do with religion. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #1
How to punch them out is riversedge Jan 2015 #3
No, criticizing Islam is considered punching DOWN. Because Islam is disadvantaged. Coventina Jan 2015 #4
Good point. This directional punching thing is confusing. Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #6
Damn, and I thought British football hooligans were nasty. NuclearDem Jan 2015 #2
Fucking barbarians leftynyc Jan 2015 #5
It's such a peaceful religion. NT 1bigdude Jan 2015 #7
 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
1. I'm pretty sure that we will be informed that this has nothing to do with religion.
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 10:30 AM
Jan 2015

And that anyone who says it does HATEZ ALL MUSLIMS! YOU BIGOT! and is UP PUNCHING!

I hate these fuckers. They are truly horrible people. The horrible things they are doing are in fact part of their horrible religious beliefs. I want their lights punched out.

Coventina

(27,121 posts)
4. No, criticizing Islam is considered punching DOWN. Because Islam is disadvantaged.
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 11:04 AM
Jan 2015

Unlike the teenaged boys who were summarily executed for watching football.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
5. Fucking barbarians
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 11:06 AM
Jan 2015

But I doubt this thread will get much attention. People can't blame the US for it.

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