ISIS is making murder a regular show

I spent a harrowing night trying to track down this video. It's been wiped so clean from all of the usual suspects web sites on the internet that at one point I had almost concluded it was a plant, a made up story about a video that never existed. Oh, there were several places that said it had been there but wasn't any more, but nowhere to find the actual video. My favorite excuse said that it had been removed for "copyright violation" - say WHAT? If Daesh is putting this stuff out for free because they WANT folks to see it, why in the hell would they issue a DMCA takedown notice? That made no sense at all, and that was when I began suspecting the story was a plant.

Still, I kept forging onward, turning over every stone, and venturing deeper and deeper into darker and darker internet alleys. I finally got the goods at al Furqan's own website. I'm sure that put me on someone's radar, but eff 'em - I ain't planning on flying nowhere, no how, and it'd be hard as hell to hide a black SUV for any surveillance around here, so they'll have to boldly knock on the door and ask me what gives.

That's when I can tell 'em they're chumps for attempting to erase this stuff from the internet, and why.

While I was out there, thrashing around in the bushes in the dark, I ran across a recent PDF publication purporting to also be from ISIS called "How to Survive in the West - A Mujahid Guide". It, too, is being erased from the internet by TPTB. I thought at first that was because they were afraid of the "sleeper cells" that it would instruct, but after reading all 70 pages of it, I'm mystified. It has the level of tradecraft and exhibits the level of knowledge I would expect from a teenager living in his parent's basement... one who had just enough peach fuzz to think he had an actual neckbeard, and thought that made him some sort of badass. In other words, it would get more wannabe mujahideen killed than it would help, so I can't quite fathom why they aren't seeding every little outlet on the internet with copies of it rather than trying to eradicate it. It's got nowhere near the level of professional finish that other ISIS publications have, so I've got to question it's actual source. The front cover has an image ripped off from Dabiq with a quote from Zarkawi.

Anyhow, the video. I got a copy of it, the good stuff straight from the source. It even has all the embedded subtitles in it that you can select for language (English, French, Russian, and German - all of their main upcoming targets).

The first bit of it discusses Jesus, and how the Christians have him all wrong (because of course Islam knows better than Jesus' own people, even though Islam never came about until 600 years after Jesus and Christianity), and gives a short "history" of Christianity from the Islamic viewpoint. The entire thing is aimed at terrorizing Christians. It goes on to explain the jizyah tribute (700 dollars per year per adult free male, in case you were wondering), and how ISIS calculates it, and then there is a section of alleged Christians living under ISIS tyranny and telling how nice it is to be there, and how all the Christians that ran away ought to come back - standard boilerplate propaganda stuff that underdogs are forced to say when a gun is held to their head about how "nice" it is to be opressed. Throughout, there is a running commentary from a "scholar" supporting ISIS views. That's one of the great things about Islam - whatever you want to do, you can find a "scholar" somewhere that will support it!

Towards the end is a section on happenings in Libya. Some guy with an American accent (Dakotas maybe?) gives the usual dire warnings (yada yada yada)and twisted justifications, and then about 30 Ethiopians are either beheaded (in the north) or shot (in the south) in a pretty graphic (not for the squeamish) series of scenes. Some of the most graphic I've seen to date in an ISIS video.

Then the wrap up.

A couple of my favorite parts are Dakota Dan saying "until you submit to Islam you will not be safe from us anywhere, not even in your dreams!" Really, Dakota Dan? ISIS is the least of my nightmares - stay the hell out of my dreams! If you insist on entering, I guarantee that my nightmares will make you piss your britches and squeal like a little girl. You may think you're baaad because you can saw the head off of a tied up and helpless Ethiopian whose whole body is no bigger around than my wrist, but you ain't seen "baaad" if that's what you think. In the words of another hillbilly out of "Next of Kin" - "you ain't seen bad... but it's comin'!"

Another was during one of the graphics slides about how Christians have it wrong - "this is proven by the Quran, the sunnah, and the consensus". Seriously? That's about as good an argument as the Catholics have against YOU - all they have to say, apparently, is that you're wrong, proven by the Bible, the traditions, and the councils. They'd have just as valid an argument as you, and probably more valid since THEIR traditions may actually have some root in what they're talking about, whereas yours don't, capiche?

ISIS, you funny. You make Ninurta laugh!