“A Shot Across The Bow”: City Of Houston Demands Christian Pastors Turn Over Their Sermons

10/15/2014 1 comment

To make sure all those Christians aren’t saying anything against the lifestyle of the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. But Islamic “homosexuals-should-all-be-killed” preachers need not worry. Their “sermons” are protected by the First Amendment …

Hadith, al-Tirmidhi, Sunan 1:152, “[Muhammad said] ‘Whoever is found conducting himself in the manner of the [homosexual] people of Lot, kill the doer and the receiver.'”  

By Todd Starnes, FOX News – “The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.

‘The city’s subpoena of sermons and other pastoral communications is both needless and unprecedented,’ Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Christina Holcomb said in a statement. ‘The city council and its attorneys are engaging in an inquisition designed to stifle any critique of its actions.’

ADF, a nationally-known law firm specializing in religious liberty cases, is representing five Houston pastors. They filed a motion in Harris County court to stop the subpoenas arguing they are ‘overbroad, unduly burdensome, harassing, and vexatious.’

‘Political and social commentary is not a crime,’ Holcomb said. ‘It is protected by the First Amendment.’

The subpoenas are just the latest twist in an ongoing saga over the Houston’s new non-discrimination ordinance. The law, among other things, would allow men to use the ladies room and vice versa.  The city council approved the law in June.

The Houston Chronicle reported opponents of the ordinance launched a petition drive that generated more than 50,000 signatures – far more than the 17,269 needed to put a referendum on the ballot.

However, the city threw out the petition in August over alleged irregularities.

After opponents of the bathroom bill filed a lawsuit the city’s attorneys responded by issuing the subpoenas against the pastors.

The pastors were not part of the lawsuit. However, they were part of a coalition of some 400 Houston-area churches that opposed the ordinance. The churches represent a number of faith groups – from Southern Baptist to non-denominational.

‘City council members are supposed to be public servants, not ‘Big Brother’ overlords who will tolerate no dissent or challenge,’ said ADF attorney Erik Stanley.  ‘This is designed to intimidate pastors.'” Read more.

Flashback: The Heart [Attack] Of Texas

Texas: Second Health Care Worker Tests Positive For Ebola

10/15/2014 Leave a comment

And, like the first nurse who tested positive, would have also been wearing protective gear …

USA Today – “A second hospital worker who helped care for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for the disease, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement early Wednesday.

The health-care worker, who was not identified, reported a fever Tuesday and was immediately isolated at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

The statement said a preliminary Ebola test was conducted late Tuesday at a state public health lab in Austin.

A test to confirm the result will be conducted at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Dallas authorities moved quickly to try to contain any spread of the disease from the latest case. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings went to the health worker’s apartment that was being decontaminated early Wednesday, according to Dallas Police Department spokesman Maj. Max Geron.

‘Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored,’ said state health department spokeswoman Carrie Williams in a written statement. ‘The type of monitoring depends on the nature of their interactions and the potential they were exposed to the virus.’

Zach Thompson, director of Dallas Health and Human Services, speaking on CBS-KTVT, said the latest hospital worker who tested positive for the virus was one of the 76 hospital staffers who cared for Duncan and were being monitored by the CDC. None of the original 48 people who had contact with him prior to hospitalization have shown signs of the virus, he said.” Read more.

Texas Ebola Hospital Cafeteria Becomes Ghost Town – “The cafeteria, where employees and patients at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital normally take a meal break, is looking more like a ghost town since the outbreak of Ebola. A cafeteria worker said their business had taken a major hit in the wake of Nina Pham’s becoming symptomatic after treating Thomas Eric Duncan while he was ill at this hospital. Breitbart Texas visited Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Monday to check out the mood of workers in the hospital. While visiting the various café’s throughout the hospital, there was a severe shortage of customers. A worker in ‘Café Presby’ said their business is down by 25 percent over the past two weeks. ‘I am concerned for our workers,’ the employee said. ‘I hope we don’t have to lay anyone off or cut their hours because of this.'” Read more.

Yesterday: CDC Now Watching 125 People For Ebola Signs – “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now monitoring 125 people for symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus, including 76 who came into contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who died of the disease last week in a Dallas hospital. CDC Director Tom Frieden told reporters Tuesday that so far, only one nurse who helped care for Duncan has contracted Ebola and no other people have been diagnosed with the disease. Nina Pham, 26, who Frieden did not identify by name, remains in stable condition, he said, while the CDC continues to monitor her boyfriend and her dog. ‘It’s possible we will see other people become ill,’ Frieden said.” Read more.

Categories: Pestilence

Pat Condell: Sweden Is The Canary In The Coal Mine For Us All (And It’s Dying)

10/14/2014 3 comments

Proverbs 22:24-25, “Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.”

Pat Condell: “Swedish politicians are not right about much, but you get the impression they think they’re setting the example to the rest of us. And they are right about that. Their recent bizarre decision to recognize ‘Palestine’ — a country that doesn’t exist — is somewhat poignant, as the way things are going Sweden itself won’t exist much longer. Seems like every piece of news that comes out of that country is more disturbing than the last. But, then, they have been committing cultural suicide so enthusiastically for so long there is now almost a sense that a tipping point is being reached and that, for the rest of us, it’s really just a matter of watching the grim process unfold as we thank our lucky stars we don’t live there…” Listen to more.

Categories: Radical Islam

Muslim Preacher In Britain Praises ISIS Caliphate: We Can Start Having Slave Girls Again!

10/14/2014 3 comments

Sex slaves. For the glory of “Allah” …

Romans 8:5-8, “… those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Also pay attention to his statement extolling the fighting power of the Islamic Caliphate. “The question is not how the Islamic State is going to survive against the American airstrikes. How is America going to survive against the Islamic State’s defense and retaliation? This is the real question… I think it is already over for America.” Where have we heard sentiment like that before? …

Revelation 13:4, “And they worshiped the dragon [Satan], for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?’

Daniel 11:39, “Thus he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain.”

Flashback: Islamic State Rule: Land Gained By Taking Land From Christians

On The Move: Islamic State Seizes Iraq Base Near Baghdad, 180,000 Flee Cities Of Hit And Kubaisa

10/13/2014 Leave a comment

Who says that being pounded from the air isn’t having an effect? They’re all on the run …

Proverbs 1:16, 4:16-17, “For their feet run to evil and they hasten to shed blood… they cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble. For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.”

By Aziz Alwan, Bloomberg – “Islamic State came closer to gaining full control of Iraq’s Anbar province after it seized a military base to the west of Baghdad that had been one of the government’s few remaining outposts there.

Militants took the base, located near the town of Hit and a major highway from Baghdad to the Syrian border, after heavy fighting with soldiers, according to Ahmed al-Dulaimi, a Sunni tribal leader. Its capture increases the threat to Ramadi, Anbar’s capital, and to Iraq’s second-largest dam at Haditha.

The insurgent group has declared a caliphate that stretches across much of northern Syria and Iraq, prompting the U.S. to launch a bombing campaign backed by European and Arab allies to halt the advance. The group’s recent gains to the west of Baghdad have sparked concern it’s preparing to attack the capital.

Islamic State captured the Anbar towns of Hit and Kubaisa last week, and its fighters are battling Iraqi forces in Abu Ghraib, 18 miles (29 kilometers) from Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone that houses embassies and government offices.

The top U.S. military officer said yesterday that Islamic State is moving into areas populated by fellow Sunnis near the capital. ‘I have no doubt there will be days when they use indirect fire into Baghdad,’ Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey said in an interview with ABC’s ‘This Week.’ Indirect fire can refer to use of mortars or artillery.

Dempsey also said that the U.S. recently had to call in Apache attack helicopters to secure the Baghdad airport and prevent Iraqi forces from being overrun, without specifying when it happened. While an outright assault on the capital is unlikely, strikes from a distance could heighten the sense of insecurity there, he said.” Read more.

Islamic State Forces 180,000 To Flee In Iraq – “Fighting in Iraq’s western Anbar province has forced up to 180,000 people to flee since the city of Hit fell to Islamic State earlier this month, the United Nations said on Monday. Islamic State fighters extended that advance by overrunning a military base that the Iraqi army had abandoned 8 km (5 miles) west of Hit earlier on Monday, according to an army officer and members of a government-backed Sunni militia. Islamic State has been on the offensive in the desert province of Anbar, bordering Syria, in recent weeks, taking the town of Hit on Oct. 2 and nearby Kubaisa on Oct. 4. That has raised concerns in the West because it is close to Baghdad and demonstrates the group’s reach …” Read more.

More: Three Islamic Terror Suspects Arrested In Central London

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Just as these arrests are not the first, they will not be the last, in London …

Qur’an Sura 8:59a, “The infidels should not think that they can get away from us …”

Sky News – “Three men have been arrested in central London on suspicion of terror offences, Scotland Yard says.

The trio, aged 21, 24 and 25, are being held on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

A statement from the Metropolitan Police also said a search had taken place at a business address in West London.

It said searches were being carried out at a further four residential addresses in north west London.

Meanwhile, two of five men arrested on 7 October have been released. Police say the other three remain in custody at central London police stations.” Source – Sky News.

Flashback: UK Terror Threat Level Raised To Severe, Jihadist Attack Now ‘Highly Likely’ – “Britain’s terror threat level was dramatically raised to severe today amid fears that UK jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria could launch attacks. The severe warning means an attack is ‘highly likely’, rather than the earlier assessment of substantial where a terror strike is ‘a strong possibility’. Home Secretary Theresa May stressed there was no intelligence to suggest an imminent attack. After the decision by Britain’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, she added: ‘The increase in the threat level is related to developments in Syria and Iraq, where terrorist groups are planning attacks against the West.” Read more.

Categories: Radical Islam

ISIS Magazine: Islam Calls For Sexual Slavery

10/13/2014 Leave a comment

After all, just like slavery in general, sex slavery is sanctioned by “Allah” in the Qur’an …

Qur’an Sura 33:50, “O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee …”

Qur’an Sura 23:5-6, “… who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess …”

By Ari Yashar, INN – “The brutal jihadist Islamic State (ISIS) terror group that has seized large portions of Iraq and Syria in recent months released the fourth edition of its English-language digital magazine ‘Dabiq’ on Sunday, in which it encourages taking women as sex slaves as part of Islam.

In the article in question from the digital publication, entitled ‘The revival (of) slavery before the Hour’ – a reference to Judgment Day – the group outright calls for the sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women, particularly from the Kurdish Yazidi ethnic minority.

‘One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar – the infidels – and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, or Islamic law,’ wrote ISIS in the article, reports CNN.

Harrowing reports have surfaced of the endless rape and torture being imposed on Yazidi women and girls, with many opting for mass-suicide after the brutalities.

The article comes out in time for the release of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on ISIS crimes against the Yazidis in Iraq, which is based on interviewwith 76 displaced persons.

‘The Islamic State’s litany of horrific crimes against the Yazidis in Iraq only keeps growing,’ said HRW special adviser Fred Abrahams. ‘We heard shocking stories of forced religious conversions, forced marriage, and even sexual assault and slavery – and some of the victims were children.'” Read more.

Flashback: Saudi Arabia: Prominent Religious Leader Calls For Slavery To Be Legalized Once Again Because ‘Slavery Is A Part Of Islam’ – “Slavery is explicitly permitted in the Koran.  Recently Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, a prominent Saudi religious leader called for slavery to be re-legalized throughout the kingdom.  According to the Sheik, a member of the Senior Council of Clerics:  ‘Slavery is a part of Islam.  Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.’” Read more.

Flashback: East African ‘Pirates’ Plunder Hundreds Of Millions To Finance Slavery And Jihad For ‘Allah’ And His ‘Prophet’ – “According to Islamic teaching, Muslims are slaves of ‘Allah’ while everyone else will become slaves of Muslims, the ‘Masters of the World.’ Mohammed — the ‘perfect man’ whom Muslims are instructed to emulate in order to earn entry into heaven – was himself a slave trader who commanded brainwashed followers into spreading Islam unceasingly until only Islam reigned supreme throughout the earth. To the Islamist mind, the end will therefore always justify the means, especially ones that are as lucrative as this for the cause of ‘Allah’ and his ‘prophet’ …” Read more.

Beheadings, Amputations, Eye Gouging, Destruction: Witnesses Describe Horrors As ISIS Seeks To Overtake Kobane

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In other words, they’re practising Islam the way their Prophet “I-Have-Been-Made-Victorious-With-Terror” Mohammed practised it …

Qur’an Sura 8:12b, “… terrorize and behead …”

Hadith, Muslim 16:4131, “They were caught and brought to him (the Holy Prophet) … and thus their hands and feet were cut off and their eyes were gouged …”

Qur’an Sura 48:29, “… Those who follow him [Mohammed] are ruthless …”

Qur’an Sura 9:73, “… Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell …”

By Nick Hallett, Breitbart – “Terrified Kobane residents have spoken of the horror inflicted on them by jihadist fighters belonging to the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Some of the atrocities include beheadings, amputations, eye gouging and the complete destruction of livestock, with refugees now flooding across the border to seek help in Turkey.

One farmer, Ahmed Bakki, said that while everyone fled as ISIS advanced, his cousin decided to stay behind. He told the Daily Mail that when he phoned his cousin a jihadist answered and said: ‘We’ve got his head, and we’re taking it to Jarabulus [an IS stronghold].’

Mr Bakki spoke of more beheadings by the group: ‘An English teacher in our village tried to reason with them, but they just called him a kaffir [non-believer] and tied him to their car and dragged him away. We heard they beheaded him later.

‘My neighbour was beheaded because they said he was ‘delivering vegetables to the kaffir’. They burned his farm, livestock, even his bees – they destroyed everything.’

Mr Bakki identified the nationalities of some of the fighters involved and, worryingly for the British government, some of them appear to be from the UK. ‘They are Chechen, they are English, they are from all over Europe. We know because we can hear their accents,’ he said.

Another refugee, a 13-year-old schoolboy called Dillyar, spoke of witnessing the brutal murder of his cousin. ‘They pushed him to the ground and sawed his head off, shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’. I see it in my dreams every night and every morning I wake up and remember everything.’

Many spoke of headless corpses now littering the streets of Kobane, with other townsfolk having their eyes gouged out.

Amin Fajar said: ‘I have seen tens, maybe hundreds, of bodies with their heads cut off. Others with just their hands or legs missing.

‘I have seen faces with their eyes or tongues cut out – I can never forget it for as long as I live. They put the heads on display to scare us all.’

In the most recent edition of their propaganda magazine Dabiq, Islamic State jihadists try to justify their brutal behaviour, saying it is within Sharia law.” Read more.

Islamic State Calls Upon “Every Muslim” In Australia To Find And Kill A Non-Muslim

10/13/2014 Leave a comment

In order to spread Islam for the cause of “Allah.” According to Barack Obama, of course, “No religion condones the killing of innocents.” But what Obama doesn’t let you in on is the fact that there’s no such thing as innocent non-Muslims in Islam. A non-Muslim, by definition, has renounced Islam and is therefore guilty of rejecting “Allah” and his malevolent messenger of murder, mayhem and misery …

“[Non-Muslims] have not accepted Islam, and as far as we are concerned, that is a crime against [Allah]… [Y]ou are innocent if you are a Muslim… If you are a non-Muslim, then you are guilty of not believing in [Allah].” – Anjem Choudary, British Imam

By Mark Schiebs, The Australian – “ISLAMIC State has named Australia as one of five main targets for terrorist attacks, calling for ‘stab the crusader’ to be a ‘battle cry’ for its supporters around the world.

The group released the latest edition of Dabiq — its official magazine — early this morning, which featured calls for worldwide action against the ‘crusaders’, as it has dubbed the US-led coalition committed to tackling Islamic State through military action.

The release of the magazine followed last month’s speech by the group’s official spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, in which the first public calls for attacks in specific countries were made.

All terrorist attacks should clearly be attributable to ‘patrons’ of Islamic State so they cannot be described by media as ‘random killings’, the new article said.

‘It is very important that attacks take place in every country that has entered into the alliance against the Islamic State, especially the US, UK, France, Australia and Germany,’ an article in the magazine said.

‘Every Muslim should get out of his house, find a crusader, and kill him.

‘It is important that the killing becomes attributed to patrons of the Islamic State who have obeyed its leadership … otherwise, crusader media makes such attacks appear to be random killings.’

The article contained warnings not to include too many people in the planning of the attack, and to not over-analyse plans to the point they are aborted.” Read more.

Qur’an Sura 33:57, 61, “Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah hath cursed them in this world and the Hereafter, and hath prepared for them the doom of the disdained … Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.”

Flashback: Tear Asunder The Land Down Under

2 Out of 3 Countries Spreading Polio Are Muslim

10/12/2014 Leave a comment

We have “Allah” and his troublesome “laws” to thank for that …

Luke 21:10-11, “Then He said to them, ‘Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven…’”

By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag – “And the third country, Cameroon, is one fifth Muslim.

While India goes to Mars, Pakistan is leading the world in polio. It’s also one of three countries that are exporting polio to the rest of the world.

By Tuesday, the number of new polio cases in Pakistan stood at 202, and officials are bracing for potentially dozens of other cases by year’s end. Pakistan now accounts for 80 percent of global cases and is one of only three countries at risk of exporting the disease outside its borders, according to the World Health Organization.

80 percent. Pakistan is number one. The other Muslim country exporting polio is Syria.

Three of the 10 nations known to have polio have exported the virus outside their borders: Pakistan to Afghanistan, Cameroon to Equatorial Guinea, and Syria to Iraq.

Pakistan and Syria also exported Muslim terrorism to Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s only appropriate that they would also export polio.

WHO tried to impose travel restrictions on Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon.

Under the new recommendations, which are not legally binding but carry tremendous weight, the three countries deemed to pose the greatest risk of further spread—Pakistan, Cameroon, and Syria—must now ensure that all residents and long-term visitors have proof of recent polio vaccination before leaving the country. WHO is also encouraging the seven other nations known to have polio infections to implement similar measures.

Good luck with that. Meanwhile the West needs to act to impose restrictions on Pakistani settlers bringing terror and polio with them.” Source – FrontPage Mag.

Unsealed: A Closer Look At Revelation 6 And ‘The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse’ – “John describes the rider of the Black Horse in Revelation 6:5 as having ‘scales’ or ‘balances’ in his hands, employing the Greek word ‘zygos‘ which is also used metaphorically to refer to any sort of ‘burden’ or ‘bondage’ as well as the imposition of ‘troublesome laws’… In every facet of daily life a Muslim’s conduct must be based upon a strict set of Islamic laws, called the Sharia, and anyone failing to follow ‘Allah’s’ burdensome edicts must suffer draconian punishments, non-Musims included. But take a look at the Islamic world today. Is it exemplified by peace and justice and social harmony because of ‘Allah’s laws’? To the contrary, the Islamic world is ravaged by war, by deprivation, by desert and famine and starvation and pestilences, conditions that are true both physically and spiritually, both literally and figuratively. Because of ‘Sharia lawlessness’ the ‘Religion of Peace’ is typified by widespread destruction and disparity, and any number of recent headlines bear this out all too well.” Read more.

Is Ben Affleck a Racist?

10/12/2014 1 comment

According to the valuable lesson of Hosea 4:6, the Lord says that “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” The same applies to those who are not. Ben Affleck, who recently won October’s not-so-honorable “Dhimwit of the Month” distinction from TROP, is yet another prime example of someone who needs to first learn what Islam truly teaches before trying to tell the world what it doesn’t …

Proverbs 14:8, “… fools deceive themselves …”

By David Wood, Anwering Muslims – “On a recent episode of ‘Real Time,’ Bill Maher and Sam Harris declared that Islam is more violent than other religions and ideologies. Ben Affleck called such a view ‘racist.’ But since the Qur’an says far worse things about non-Muslims than Maher or Harris say about Muslims, why doesn’t Affleck condemn the Qur’an? Is it because he has lower expectations for Muslims than for other people? If so, does this make him a racist?” Source – Answering Muslims.

Categories: Radical Islam

ISIS Commander: We Offer People The Chance To Convert To Islam And Worship Allah Before Killing Them

10/12/2014 1 comment

Finally, we now know what it means when Muslim killers speak of “Allah” as the most “gracious” and “merciful” …

“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious the Most Merciful… I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and messenger who said: ‘I have been inspired between the hands of the hour until Allah alone is worshiped …'” – Islamist Group Quotes Their “Prophet” To Justify Suicide Bombing (Link)

Revelation 13:15, “The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.”

Islamic State Strategy: Kindness One Day, Terror The Next – “The men in the video appear tense as the conversion ceremony begins. They are Yazidis, followers of an ancient religion that originates in northern Iraq. But here, they are seen converting to Islam under the watchful eye of armed Islamic State militants.

After the ceremony the film cuts to a new scene where the men stand together in a group. The converts and the militants call on Yazidis who’ve fled their homes in the region of Sinjar to return to be ‘protected by the Islamic State.’ Militants dressed in dishdashas, long white robes, welcome the Yazidi men as ‘brothers.’

These men were likely spared death in exchange for their conversion. Hundreds of other Yazidis have been systematically executed in villages across Sinjar since early August, including 600 in the village of Kocho alone.

Later in the video, a man with a microphone interviews a militant with the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS.

‘Various politicized media outlets published false reports that you had killed the Yazidis, and forced them to convert to Islam, and violated the honor of their women. How do you respond to these reports?’ he asks in Arabic.

‘This is the opposite of what really happened,’ the fighter responds. ‘The Islamic State does its utmost for the repentance of any infidel — whether Yazidi, Crusader (Christian), or Jewish. We have been fighting for no other reason than to extract people from their ‘kufr’ (‘unbelief’) and to usher them into the fold of Islam.’

The world is now familiar with the most grisly of Islamic State propaganda. The videos that have made international headlines and grabbed viewers on YouTube and Twitter show massacres, executions and beheadings. These shows of uncompromising violence are meant to deter anyone who may oppose the group, and so far, they’ve succeeded …” Read more.