So while I love to read about politics around the world, I haven’t posted much about ISIS and the fight against them because frankly I see it as a regional thing that needs to be solved by the locals rather than have the Western world intervene. Anyway, there’s this guy nammed Abu Azrael who’s part of the Shia militias fighting against ISIS (so a good guy by definition because he’s our ally) and he does some of the most disgusting things.
A captured ISIS terrorist was suspended over a fire, burned to death and then sliced up like a KEBAB by a rebel fighter nicknamed the ‘Angel of Death’.
Footage released online shows fearsome Abu Azrael, one of ISIS’ most feared enemies and a poster boy for Shi’a militias, committed the sickening act as a warning to his enemies.
The hulking fighter laughs as he cuts the dead ISIS terrorists leg with a curved sword, then turns to the camera and says: “ISIS this will be your fate, we will cut you like shawarma (a method of grilling meat on a spit and then shaving it off)”.
Source: Mirror UK
Yes I know the site is a tabloid style site but in any case the media is talking about this guy as if he’s a hero, he’s not he’s a fucking psycho… Just because he’s on “our side” doesn’t make this type of thing right, we’re outraged by the cruelty of ISIS on its captured prisoners and this is no different. If these are our allies on the ground, they are no better than the people we’re fighting and the history of Western intervention in the middle east has been a disaster.
What’s the solution to the middle east’s problem with violence, I don’t know but anything achieved through military means will simply be a short term fix. You can’t impose “freedom” on a group of people and Western style democracy doesn’t work everywhere… Perhaps we need to let the local population figure out what it wants to do and let them handle it their way no matter what occurs. I know it sounds terrible but the fight is not ours and those groups have been fighting for centuries over the same stupid qualms, perhaps it’ll only stop when they decide the fighting isn’t worth it anymore.
