I'm not a Sunni Muslim, so its hard for me this number relevant to my immediate life, friends and family.

Tell me, what % do you think support attacks on Christians? Jews? Other "infidel" groups we've seen suffer under Islamist hands recently, Yazidis / Zoroastrians / Druze / Ba'hai,

how about Israeli babies sleeping in their cribs? What % support slitting their necks as a form of heroic "resistance" ?

Would it be crrraaaaaaazzzzyyy to say 40%? greater than 40%?

Just watched the new Anthony Bourdain show on Beirut. Man they are terrified of ISIS down to every single person.

Surely

you meant to say Israel, instead?

No. He was talking about Anthony Bourdain in Beirut.

3.50%?

Clearly less than 40%.

Have you never met a western Muslim? They are just normal people. They don't give a ****.

They are normal people, in that they're generally good dudes but they also support the side they identify with, which means they'll explain away atrocities as a result of "the occupation" and aggressively impute ill-intent on the side they don't like. Of course YMMV and any individual could have a laundry list of uncommon opinions so not much point in prejudging.

I really don't know what Phil is droning on about 40% of Muslims for. Chances are much better at least some of the 9% is from non-Muslims that don't know what's going on, want to troll a pollster, or just want to be special.

40% of Sunni Muslims is equal to 1% of the British population. My point was less than a percent of brits will support isis and it'd be silly to believe otherwise.

Discussing the poll results is pointless. The most logical reason for that 9% is they made it all up. Without a reliable poll run by a reliable organisation we don't know anything.

Were you going for super ironic given your historic pro Israel posts?

You do realize that I'm Israeli, right? Army, Hummus, the whole thing. I've never made any attempt to hide that or to pretend it's not why I have the positions I do.

But I'm also, "historically", much better than you at knowing wtf is going on and why you are "historically" wrong about your simplistic positions and policy ideas re what to do about it.

Lol no phil is right, that post is full of irony coming from you, Gamblor

So sayeth the man who managed to write this post, proving my point exactly as written.

Anyway, thank you for your post and your knowledgeable contribution contained new, insightful information and perspective, was well-researched, thought out, and robust, and led me to reconsider my position.

Kinda funny, this is one of your only posts in this thread, maybe your only one, and it makes no comment on ISIL/ISIS whatsoever, and pretty much just parrots Phil's nonsense.

What makes it even more ironic, and sad, is you have the nerve to say this to anyone else, in the world, on any topic, ever:

Time to look in the mirror, lilu

Are you going for super duper ultra hyper extra ironic, given your historic "pro palestine" posts? Phil, who isn't even palestinian, arab, or muslim, and has demonstrated repeatedly how uninformed and worse- misinformed he is on the Arab-Israeli conflict? I bet you weren't... which, I think makes it even more ironic now. I don't know for sure, too many levels and intensities of irony going on.

Iraq Begins Military Operation to Drive ISIS From Anbar Province

“We will take revenge on ISIS criminals on the battlefields, and the heroes in the armed forces and the popular mobilization and the tribal fighters are defeating ISIS in one battle after the other.”

the oil agreement between Kurdistan and Baghdad appeared to be breaking down for the past few weeks, now it seems to be completely broken.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...-of-own-output

Wtf is Baghdad going to do - invade?

time will tell i guess, in the short term i'd say likely nothing because there's nothing they can do . the decision re: the degree of integration of Kurdistan in Iraq seems to be the Kurds' decision alone right now. that depends on how far they want to go. the situation will probably be used to leverage a more favorable agreement with Baghdad, but if Turkey supports it and the US accepts it we may see an independent Kurdistan. i don't know why the Kurds would choose to be part of the cluster**** that is the Iraqi state.

when ISIS routed the Iraqi Army the Kurds took the opportunity to occupy Kirkuk, a contested, mixed Kurdish/Arab city with a ****load oil, and has controlled it ever since. from the same article:
that brings it back to your question, what can they actually do about it though? right now, sternly worded letters i guess?

Kurdistan can't ship its oil out without going through Iran, Iraq, Syria, or Turkey.

The life of a British suicide bomber

http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/the...y-tam-hussein/

Turkey ramping up it's game by allowing expanded use of it's airbases:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/wo...kes-syria.html

Good

Why my own father would have let IS kill me

At least there's one place in the middle east where any race, religion, or ethnicity, is safe- even if they are a homosexual.

Then again, "pinkwashing", yo



Of course the usual humanitarians P/PU are completely uninterested in the plight of human beings across the middle east, except that one safe haven