British medical students missing, feared to have joined IS

[Bosonic]

Source: AFP

A group of British medical students of Sudanese origin who went missing after travelling to Turkey are feared to have crossed into Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group as doctors, reports and sources said on Sunday.

The families of the students have travelled to the Turkey-Syria border in a desperate appeal for them to return home before it is too late, a Turkish opposition MP said.

According to reports in Britain's Guardian newspaper and the BBC, the nine young British medical students flew to Istanbul from the Sudanese capital Khartoum on March 12 and then overland towards Syria.

They have been joined by two other medics from the United States and Canada, also of Sudanese origin, the BBC said.

Read more: https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/british-medical-students-missing-feared-joined-125732505.html

[cosmicone]

1. There is a great article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

about why Islam needs a reform.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-reformation-for-islam-1426859626?mod=trending_now_1

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According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, at least 70% of all the fatalities in armed conflicts around the world last year were in wars involving Muslims. In 2013, there were nearly 12,000 terrorist attacks world-wide. The lion’s share were in Muslim-majority countries, and many of the others were carried out by Muslims. By far the most numerous victims of Muslim violence—including executions and lynchings not captured in these statistics—are Muslims themselves.

Not all of this violence is explicitly motivated by religion, but a great deal of it is. I believe that it is foolish to insist, as Western leaders habitually do, that the violent acts committed in the name of Islam can somehow be divorced from the religion itself. For more than a decade, my message has been simple: Islam is not a religion of peace.

When I assert this, I do not mean that Islamic belief makes all Muslims violent. This is manifestly not the case: There are many millions of peaceful Muslims in the world. What I do say is that the call to violence and the justification for it are explicitly stated in the sacred texts of Islam. Moreover, this theologically sanctioned violence is there to be activated by any number of offenses, including but not limited to apostasy, adultery, blasphemy and even something as vague as threats to family honor or to the honor of Islam itself.
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<snip>
As I see it, the fundamental problem is that the majority of otherwise peaceful and law-abiding Muslims are unwilling to acknowledge, much less to repudiate, the theological warrant for intolerance and violence embedded in their own religious texts. It simply will not do for Muslims to claim that their religion has been “hijacked” by extremists. The killers of Islamic State and Nigeria’s Boko Haram cite the same religious texts that every other Muslim in the world considers sacrosanct.
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Before someone has a knee-jerk alert as "Islamophobia", the words above were written by a Somali-American Muslim activist who has championed women's rights and peace.

[Fred Sanders]

2. American H.S. Drop Outs Joining White Supremist Groups - where is the coverage of the domestic actusl terrorists?

ISIS is merely the latest incarnation of the American Boogeyman.

If there is no credible threat to America's trillion dollar a year defended soil, soil in a different continent, you can be sure the MIC will invent one.

[FrodosPet]

3. So they cancel each other out?

I'm not going to defend klan kooks, skinheads, Nazis, and the rest of the assholes.

A couple points.

Do you think all the coverage about the Daesh is a lie? A fabrication, false flag, psyops?

And how often are the white bread chickenshits committing terror? Yes, even one is one too many, but in the total scheme of things, what is the ratio?

Remember, even Bernie Sanders says we should bomb the bastards.