ISIS / IS / ISIL / The Islamic State

For the same reason hate speech or anything else likely to inflame violence or play into the hands of extremists should be reported in a non-sensationalised way. I know the video eixsts, that's enough for me. The Police are absolutely right to close down the spread of the video. whether real or not, it is an Isis propaganda tool. speculation over its veracity plays into their hands.

Well said.

By "well said", of course I mean "what a load of specious, unsupported rubbish".

Would be interested to know why you disagree. Do you think it's a good thing if more people see the video?

I wouldn't be daft enough to make such an ill-informed subjective declaration.

specious

good word

^we used to just call 'em 'four-eyes' when I was a kid

Me? I'm not overly keen on entering this discussion fully - I realise that may sound disingenuous given that I've already weighed in on it a little.
Generally speaking, I think it's healthy for people to question news sources, seek a balanced view and put events/evidence such as this under some scrutiny - given the impact they are likely to have (and already are having) on world events.

I wouldn't be daft enough to make such an ill-informed subjective declaration.

By which you mean, you have nothing to add but a general fart in my direction. Of course it's subjective, it's my opinion.

@winnifred1849 Put aside your hollow sense of moral outrage about people possibly seeing a video for one minute, clinically read over my post about the video being a fake, have a think about it, and respond to it.

stop the press.

+dublinkevin speaks the TRUTH !!!!!!

Of course it's subjective, it's my opinion.

Your absurdly unsupported subjective opinion, that you are using as rationalisation to imperiously declare what others should or should not be viewing.

By which you mean, you have nothing to add but a general fart in my direction.

I meant exactly what I wrote. That you infer what you did is about as fatuous as anything else you have posted.

I apologose for the tone of my first response, Kevin.

Though it leaves little to the imagination, the deeply disturbing film does not show the actual moment of Foley’s decapitation. This marks it out from other, less sophisticated predecessors.
‘Some previous Islamist videos, such as the one showing the killing of U.S. hostage Nick Berg in 2004, didn’t get widely shared because people regarded them as too graphic,’ says Hussain.
‘This one, however, has been edited to make it less like a snuff movie, and therefore far more useful as a piece of propaganda.’ says Ghaffar Hussain, the managing director of the anti-extremist Quilliam Foundation.

Hussain also goes into the intended targets of the propaganda film in this article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730354/Five-minutes-savagery-video-slick-sickening.html

And yes, it is a Mail article, but I still believe what Hussein says.

That you infer what you did is about as fatuous as anything else you have posted.

This is just tit for tat now. You win, let's move on.

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I've just read most of this thread and seldom have felt so dumb after reading anything, I demand my 30 minutes back.

This thread must die!

So will the Ignore Function MK2™ work for individual threads?

Just dont read it if you dont like it, maybe?

I've just read most of this thread and seldom have felt so dumb after reading anything, I demand my 30 minutes back.

You don't read the football thread much, do you?

This makes the football thread look like one of the great debates of this century.

Which it is.