You don't even know the meaning of a critical thought you scientifically illiterate, and politically illiterate, troll.
Seems I do because I can discuss and debate with cites, sources and facts and you go around with smilies and gifs all day.
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Breh there are plenty of anti-establishment/conspiracy people on here who you could have used to say have critical thinking skills. Digga is literally the worst candidate. If you can point me to any post of his that displays critical thinking skills above a 5th grade level, I'll PayPal you $20.
Digga38
The seperation between what's fake and what's real
Digga38
The seperation between what's fake and what's real
what was so far fetched about my scenarioCritical thinkers like Digga
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
Libya's legally installed government has sent fighters to confront the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northern city of Sirte.
Sources told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that the Tripoli-based government deployed Misrata's 166 battalion, backed by rebels, to tackle ISIL in Sirte.
The battalion's commander said that the operation involved taking back key buildings and state institutions.
Libya has been gripped by chaos since longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed more than three years ago.
The North African country has failed to build up a national army and efficient state institutions since the end of Gaddafi's one-man rule, and is now effectively dominated by former rebel brigades who disagree over how to govern Libya and share its oil wealth.
The country has had two rival governments and parliaments since a group called Libya Dawn seized the capital in August, and set up its own government and parliament.
In November, Libya's supreme court invalidated the UN-recognised parliament in Tobruk, which had fled from Tripoli to the eastern city, after a legal challenge by a group of politicians.
The country's three main cities, Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata, are largely controlled by militias aligned with Libya Dawn, and supportive of Omar al-Hassi, the head of Libya's legally installed government.
Amid the chaos, fighters pledging allegiance to ISIL have emerged in the cities of Derna and Sirte.
'Hostile aggression'
On Sunday, fighters pledging allegiance to ISIL released a video purporting to show the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians .
Inside Story: Will Libya be Egypt's quagmire?
Egypt's military responded on Monday when it carried out air raids against what is claimed were ISIL camps, training sites and weapons storage areas in Libya's northeast.
Hassi denounced the raids as "terrorism" and said the international community should "condemn this hostile aggression, and pressure the Egyptian government to stop it".
At least seven civilians were reported killed in the strikes.
Meanwhile, the UN-recognised government in Tobruk supported the raids.
Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni, the head of the UN-recognised government, made a plea for Western military intervention on Monday and called for strikes on Tripoli and Ben Jawad.
Both areas are held by militias opposed to his government.
Global coalition
The UN Security Council said on Tuesday it would hold an emergency session on Wednesday on the escalating crisis.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and the UN envoy to Libya are expected to brief the council on Wednesday afternoon in a public meeting.
Earlier on Tuesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said "there is no choice" but to create a global coalition to confront Libya's rival militias, in an interview with France's Europe 1 radio.
The European Union has said it would meet with Egyptian and US government officials this week, but said it saw no role in any military intervention for now.
According to the UN at least 400,000 people have been displaced by fighting across Libya, with as many as 83,000 people living in settlements, schools and abandoned buildings.
ISIS as seen on tv is a boogeyman, nothing more.
Hans Wurst
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Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/24/isis-kidnaps-90-christians-in-syria
Activists warn of end of Christian presence in Middle East as Isis seizes 90 Assyrians
Kidnappings by militants retreating from Kurdish attack are latest assault on ancient minorities such as Yazidis, Chaldeans and Copts
A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians captured by Isis with a banner calling for their release. It is believed the men were beheaded. Photograph: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Kareem Shaheen in Beirut
Tuesday 24 February 2015 04.49 EST Last modified on Tuesday 24 February 2015 19.26 EST
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Islamic State militants kidnapped 90 Christians in north-east Syria as the jihadis retreated in the face of a Kurdish counter-offensive, a monitoring group has said.
The reported kidnappings are the latest blow to the ancient Christian presence in the region, heightening insecurity after a video was released by militants claiming allegiance to Isis that appeared to show the beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya.
Syria conflict four years on: share your stories
“This is another episode in the targeting to the Christians of the east,” Habib Afram, president of the Syriac League in Lebanon, which represents the Assyrian minority, told the Guardian. “We are witnessing the end of the Christian presence in the east.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said 90 Assyrian Christians were kidnapped by Isis near Tal Tamr. In addition to the captives, four Christians were killed trying to defend the villages.
The attack targeted some 35 mostly Assyrian settlements near the Khabur river, a tributary of the Euphrates, after there had been heavy fighting in the area between Isis and the YPG, the Kurdish militia backed by the US-led coalition that beat back an advance on the border town of Kobani last month.
The rights monitoring group said its sources on the ground had overheard Isis militants on radios refer to the captives as “crusaders”, the same term used by militants to describe the Egyptian Copts apparently killed in Libya.
Afram said the Kurds had reported that churches in the area had been burned and that the militant group may be seeking a prisoner swap with the Kurdish forces.
The attack is symbolically significant because the Assyrian Christians had fled to the region in 1933, taking refuge after the infamous Simele massacre, a pogrom by the Iraqi kingdom at the time targeting the population. It also comes close to the centenary of the massacres against Armenian and Assyrian Christians under the Ottoman empire.
“The Assyrian people are not merely Christians, but indigenous inhabitants of the Middle East,” said Mardean Isaac, an Assyrian writer based in the UK and member of A Demand for Action, an organisation dedicated to supporting the Assyrians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria.
“After the Iraq war of 2003, and since the Syrian crisis began, the persecution unleashed on them – including extortion, kidnappings, murder, the ethnic cleansing of entire swaths of Baghdad, the Nineveh plains, and now much of north-east Syria, has been so vast that their very existence in their ancestral homelands is in grave peril.
“We are watching a living history and all that comprises [it] disappear,” he added.
Isis militants have often singled out Christians and minorities for persecution. Thousands of Christians fled Iraq’s Mosul and Nineveh after Isis’s lightning advance last summer amid reports of forced conversions. Many took refuge in Kurdish-held territories or in Lebanon. The Isis rampage through Iraq’s Nineveh plains forced out Chaldean Christians and other minorities from areas in which they had co-existed for nearly 2,000 years.
The jihadis have been especially brutal towards the ancient Yazidi minority in Iraq, attempting to starve thousands who were stranded on Mount Sinjar, north-west of Mosul. It also sold many hundreds of Yazidi women into slavery and forced others to marry.
Coalition air strikes had earlier targeted Isis fighters near the Syrian Kurdish stronghold of Qamishli on the Turkish border.
Afram, who said he was in contact with the Syrian Orthodox bishop of Hassakeh, the Syrian Kurdish stronghold not far from the villages, described the kidnappings as part of a series of attacks targeting Christian communities across the region, including attacks in Baghdad and Mosul, the slaying of the Egyptian Copts, and the occupation of the ancient Christian town of Maaloula by Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria, and the eviction of Christians from their homelands in Nineveh.
Afram said many had fled to Hassakeh to take refuge, creating a humanitarian crisis amid shock at the attack. “They are not part of the struggle,” he said, saying the Christians in the area had not been involved in any military operations. “We do not understand this targeting of Christians.”
Afram also condemned the “frightening and shocking Arab silence” at the ongoing attacks against the Christians in the region, saying there was no plan to confront the crisis and that air strikes would not stem the tide of terrorism against the region’s minorities. “Coexistence needs two sides,” he said.
Archbishop Paul Nabil El-Sayah, vicar general of the Maronite patriarchate in Lebanon and curial bishop of Antioch, said Isis was targeting all those who did not believe in its ideology. “They do not want to coexist with either Christians or Muslims who do not believe in their mission,” he told the Guardian.
Sayah said those who armed extremist groups in the region and provided them with support were also to blame for such attacks. “Those who kidnap are criminals, but those who are supporting them are the real criminals,” he said.
As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer. The majority of Iraq’s Christians are part of the Chaldean church.
More than 1,600 people, the vast majority of them from Isis, have been killed by the US-led coalition air strikes in Syria, according to SOHR. Many of the jihadi casualties occurred in the Kurdish town of Kobani, on the Turkish border, where Isis has estimated its losses to be at least 1,400.
Activists warn of end of Christian presence in Middle East as Isis seizes 90 Assyrians
Kidnappings by militants retreating from Kurdish attack are latest assault on ancient minorities such as Yazidis, Chaldeans and Copts
A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians captured by Isis with a banner calling for their release. It is believed the men were beheaded. Photograph: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Kareem Shaheen in Beirut
Tuesday 24 February 2015 04.49 EST Last modified on Tuesday 24 February 2015 19.26 EST
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Islamic State militants kidnapped 90 Christians in north-east Syria as the jihadis retreated in the face of a Kurdish counter-offensive, a monitoring group has said.
The reported kidnappings are the latest blow to the ancient Christian presence in the region, heightening insecurity after a video was released by militants claiming allegiance to Isis that appeared to show the beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya.
Syria conflict four years on: share your stories
“This is another episode in the targeting to the Christians of the east,” Habib Afram, president of the Syriac League in Lebanon, which represents the Assyrian minority, told the Guardian. “We are witnessing the end of the Christian presence in the east.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said 90 Assyrian Christians were kidnapped by Isis near Tal Tamr. In addition to the captives, four Christians were killed trying to defend the villages.
The attack targeted some 35 mostly Assyrian settlements near the Khabur river, a tributary of the Euphrates, after there had been heavy fighting in the area between Isis and the YPG, the Kurdish militia backed by the US-led coalition that beat back an advance on the border town of Kobani last month.
The rights monitoring group said its sources on the ground had overheard Isis militants on radios refer to the captives as “crusaders”, the same term used by militants to describe the Egyptian Copts apparently killed in Libya.
Afram said the Kurds had reported that churches in the area had been burned and that the militant group may be seeking a prisoner swap with the Kurdish forces.
The attack is symbolically significant because the Assyrian Christians had fled to the region in 1933, taking refuge after the infamous Simele massacre, a pogrom by the Iraqi kingdom at the time targeting the population. It also comes close to the centenary of the massacres against Armenian and Assyrian Christians under the Ottoman empire.
“The Assyrian people are not merely Christians, but indigenous inhabitants of the Middle East,” said Mardean Isaac, an Assyrian writer based in the UK and member of A Demand for Action, an organisation dedicated to supporting the Assyrians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria.
“After the Iraq war of 2003, and since the Syrian crisis began, the persecution unleashed on them – including extortion, kidnappings, murder, the ethnic cleansing of entire swaths of Baghdad, the Nineveh plains, and now much of north-east Syria, has been so vast that their very existence in their ancestral homelands is in grave peril.
“We are watching a living history and all that comprises [it] disappear,” he added.
Isis militants have often singled out Christians and minorities for persecution. Thousands of Christians fled Iraq’s Mosul and Nineveh after Isis’s lightning advance last summer amid reports of forced conversions. Many took refuge in Kurdish-held territories or in Lebanon. The Isis rampage through Iraq’s Nineveh plains forced out Chaldean Christians and other minorities from areas in which they had co-existed for nearly 2,000 years.
The jihadis have been especially brutal towards the ancient Yazidi minority in Iraq, attempting to starve thousands who were stranded on Mount Sinjar, north-west of Mosul. It also sold many hundreds of Yazidi women into slavery and forced others to marry.
Coalition air strikes had earlier targeted Isis fighters near the Syrian Kurdish stronghold of Qamishli on the Turkish border.
Afram, who said he was in contact with the Syrian Orthodox bishop of Hassakeh, the Syrian Kurdish stronghold not far from the villages, described the kidnappings as part of a series of attacks targeting Christian communities across the region, including attacks in Baghdad and Mosul, the slaying of the Egyptian Copts, and the occupation of the ancient Christian town of Maaloula by Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria, and the eviction of Christians from their homelands in Nineveh.
Afram said many had fled to Hassakeh to take refuge, creating a humanitarian crisis amid shock at the attack. “They are not part of the struggle,” he said, saying the Christians in the area had not been involved in any military operations. “We do not understand this targeting of Christians.”
Afram also condemned the “frightening and shocking Arab silence” at the ongoing attacks against the Christians in the region, saying there was no plan to confront the crisis and that air strikes would not stem the tide of terrorism against the region’s minorities. “Coexistence needs two sides,” he said.
Archbishop Paul Nabil El-Sayah, vicar general of the Maronite patriarchate in Lebanon and curial bishop of Antioch, said Isis was targeting all those who did not believe in its ideology. “They do not want to coexist with either Christians or Muslims who do not believe in their mission,” he told the Guardian.
Sayah said those who armed extremist groups in the region and provided them with support were also to blame for such attacks. “Those who kidnap are criminals, but those who are supporting them are the real criminals,” he said.
As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer. The majority of Iraq’s Christians are part of the Chaldean church.
More than 1,600 people, the vast majority of them from Isis, have been killed by the US-led coalition air strikes in Syria, according to SOHR. Many of the jihadi casualties occurred in the Kurdish town of Kobani, on the Turkish border, where Isis has estimated its losses to be at least 1,400.
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-burns-8000-rare-books-030900856.html
ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
By Riyadh Mohammed 20 hours ago
ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
By Riyadh Mohammed 20 hours ago
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ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
While the world was watching the Academy Awards ceremony, the people of Mosul were watching a different show. They were horrified to see ISIS members burn the Mosul public library. Among the many thousands of books it housed, more than 8,000 rare old books and manuscripts were burned.
“ISIS militants bombed the Mosul Public Library. They used improvised explosive devices,” said Ghanim al-Ta'an, the director of the library. Notables in Mosul tried to persuade ISIS members to spare the library, but they failed.
Related: Kurds Are Close to Retaking Mosul from ISIS
The former assistant director of the library Qusai All Faraj said that the Mosul Public Library was established in 1921, the same year that saw the birth of the modern Iraq. Among its lost collections were manuscripts from the eighteenth century, Syriac books printed in Iraq's first printing house in the nineteenth century, books from the Ottoman era, Iraqi newspapers from the early twentieth century and some old antiques like an astrolabe and sand glass used by ancient Arabs. The library had hosted the personal libraries of more than 100 notable families from Mosul over the last century.
During the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the library was looted and destroyed by mobs. However, the people living nearby managed to save most of its collections and rich families bought back the stolen books and they were returned to the library, All Faraj added.
Related: 9 ISIS Weapons That Will Shock You
“900 years ago, the books of the Arab philosopher Averroes were collected before his eyes...and burned. One of his students started crying while witnessing the burning. Averroes told him... the ideas have wings...but I cry today over our situation,” said Rayan al-Hadidi, an activist and a blogger from Mosul. Al-Hadidi said that a state of anger and sorrow are dominating Mosul now. Even the library's website was suspended.
“What a pity! We used to go to the library in the 1970s. It was one of the greatest landmarks of Mosul. I still remember the special pieces of paper where the books’ names were listed alphabetically,” said Akil Kata who left Mosul to exile years ago.
On the same day the library was destroyed, ISIS abolished another old church in Mosul: the church of Mary the Virgin. The Mosul University Theater was burned as well, according to eyewitnesses. In al-Anbar province, Western Iraq, the ISIS campaign of burning books has managed to destroy 100,000 titles, according to local officials. Last December, ISIS burned Mosul University’s central library.
Related: The Perverted, Powerful Logic Behind ISIS’s Burned Pilot
Iraq, the cradle of civilization, the birthplace of agriculture and writing and the home of the Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Arab civilizations had never witnessed such an assault on its rich cultural heritage since the Mongol era in the Middle Ages.
Last week, a debate in Washington and Baghdad became heated over when, how and who will liberate Mosul. A plan was announced to liberate the city in April or May by more than 20,000 US trained Iraqi soldiers. Either way, and supposing everything will go well and ISIS will be defeated easily which is never the case in reality, that means the people of Mosul will still have to wait for another two to three months.
Until then, Mosul will probably have not a single sign of its rich history left standing.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-burns-8000-rare-books-030900856.html
ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
By Riyadh Mohammed 20 hours ago
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View photo
ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
While the world was watching the Academy Awards ceremony, the people of Mosul were watching a different show. They were horrified to see ISIS members burn the Mosul public library. Among the many thousands of books it housed, more than 8,000 rare old books and manuscripts were burned.
“ISIS militants bombed the Mosul Public Library. They used improvised explosive devices,” said Ghanim al-Ta'an, the director of the library. Notables in Mosul tried to persuade ISIS members to spare the library, but they failed.
Related: Kurds Are Close to Retaking Mosul from ISIS
The former assistant director of the library Qusai All Faraj said that the Mosul Public Library was established in 1921, the same year that saw the birth of the modern Iraq. Among its lost collections were manuscripts from the eighteenth century, Syriac books printed in Iraq's first printing house in the nineteenth century, books from the Ottoman era, Iraqi newspapers from the early twentieth century and some old antiques like an astrolabe and sand glass used by ancient Arabs. The library had hosted the personal libraries of more than 100 notable families from Mosul over the last century.
During the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the library was looted and destroyed by mobs. However, the people living nearby managed to save most of its collections and rich families bought back the stolen books and they were returned to the library, All Faraj added.
Related: 9 ISIS Weapons That Will Shock You
“900 years ago, the books of the Arab philosopher Averroes were collected before his eyes...and burned. One of his students started crying while witnessing the burning. Averroes told him... the ideas have wings...but I cry today over our situation,” said Rayan al-Hadidi, an activist and a blogger from Mosul. Al-Hadidi said that a state of anger and sorrow are dominating Mosul now. Even the library's website was suspended.
“What a pity! We used to go to the library in the 1970s. It was one of the greatest landmarks of Mosul. I still remember the special pieces of paper where the books’ names were listed alphabetically,” said Akil Kata who left Mosul to exile years ago.
On the same day the library was destroyed, ISIS abolished another old church in Mosul: the church of Mary the Virgin. The Mosul University Theater was burned as well, according to eyewitnesses. In al-Anbar province, Western Iraq, the ISIS campaign of burning books has managed to destroy 100,000 titles, according to local officials. Last December, ISIS burned Mosul University’s central library.
Related: The Perverted, Powerful Logic Behind ISIS’s Burned Pilot
Iraq, the cradle of civilization, the birthplace of agriculture and writing and the home of the Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Arab civilizations had never witnessed such an assault on its rich cultural heritage since the Mongol era in the Middle Ages.
Last week, a debate in Washington and Baghdad became heated over when, how and who will liberate Mosul. A plan was announced to liberate the city in April or May by more than 20,000 US trained Iraqi soldiers. Either way, and supposing everything will go well and ISIS will be defeated easily which is never the case in reality, that means the people of Mosul will still have to wait for another two to three months.
Until then, Mosul will probably have not a single sign of its rich history left standing.
Where is the proof. I see a link that doesn't have any real pics of the library.
interesting thing, so i decied to try and find pics after i read your post and the only pic i could find was this one
Problem is this pic is of the Baghdad library from 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/books/07libe.html?_r=0