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http://fair.org/blog/2015/02/20/top-10-bogus-isis-stories/Top 10 Bogus ISIS Stories
Posted by Adam Johnson
ISIS's violent bona fides are not in doubt to anyone paying attention. They've targeted religious minorities, beheaded aid workers, sold women into sex slavery and have been all-around devastating for those under their rule. But as America debates the possibility of a full-scale ground invasion of ISIS-controlled territory, it's important to note that much of the ISIS threat namely that which targets the West has been habitually overstated by an uncritical media.
In no particular order, here are the ten most bogus ISIS scare stories over the past year:
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)than there are Americans actually fighting for ISIS.
marym625
(17,997 posts)They're despicable. They're outrageous. They're horrific. Why add to the story?
Oh. War.
Never mind
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)war is very profitable for some.
marym625
(17,997 posts)It's all about, and always about, the money.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)swallowed their propaganda whole and spread it with unrestricted enthusiasm, even adding to it with speculation. "We eat babies" is Twittered and the media can not report on that fast enough because it could be true! So..be afraid.....ISIS Mission Accomplished.
If the goal of terrorism is to spread terror why is the media helping them? ISIS is lying, somehow that harder to believe than that they are evil?
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)was in this post by IchingCarpenter:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026256465#post3
War is PROFITABLE.
marym625
(17,997 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)but if you get in the way of big business like oil, you will become worse than Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Baby Bush combined.