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[eu pfhor ia]

this story actually made me feel a bit better about the whole global terrorism situation, in that it looks like the probabilities of daesh/isis actually assembling a nuclear device are...pretty low, apparently. Keep trying to do magic, dipshits

 

[Heshinsi]

No surprise here, those people are dumbasses stuck in their middle age mentality.

To be fair, they are a lot dumber than that. I mean this is the group that banned physical activity and science being taught in schools. They would stick out like a sore thumb in Golden age Arabia.

 

[RoadHazard]

It's a bit comforting that they are such ignorant dumbasses. I mean, that's partly why they're doing what they're doing in the first place, but in this context it's a good thing.

 

[Beartruck]

Lost in at him mentioning the substance that summons Jinni. Like wow, yeah, I guess ISIS would be full of guys roughly that smart.

 

[0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55]

Just imagine what would happen if they got their hands on Unobtainium

 

[Sky Chief]

Not sure why we haven't made some hoax red mercury containers for them that are really just conventional bombs that we can remotely detonate when they receive them

 

[Massingberd]

 

[Gr1mLock]

Can someone tell him I have this barrel of adamantium that I've been trying to move? Thanks.

 

[Always-honest]

It's a bit comforting that they are such ignorant dumbasses. I mean, that's partly why they're doing what they're doing in the first place, but in this context it's a good thing.

Yes.
This article made me smile

 

[Nikodemos]

Crazy urban legends like these are fascinating.
Also kind of scary.
The amount of gullibility in the world.
And maybe extremism is a part of that kind of magical thinking.

Sort of. Thing is, the average practicing Muslim is more superstitious than the average practicing Jew or Christian. This is due to a flaw in Islam itself.
See, in Islam there is such a thing as magic. It comes from boons granted (willingly or unwillingly) by jinni or afreeti. Whereas Christianity (dunno about Judaism, but I suspect it's rather close) firmly and strongly states that there's no such thing as magic, merely a bunch of self-delusional idiots. And occasional demonic possession.

 

[Coriolanus]

Sort of. Thing is, the average practicing Muslim is more superstitious than the average practicing Jew or Christian. This is due to a flaw in Islam itself.
See, in Islam there is such a thing as magic. It comes from boons granted (willingly or unwillingly) by jinni or afreeti. Whereas Christianity (dunno about Judaism, but I suspect it's rather close) firmly and strongly states that there's no such thing as magic, merely a bunch of self-delusional idiots. And occasional demonic possession.

Ymean like angels, demons, saints, blessings and miracles?

Christianity only constrained it a bit and changed some names, same as usual.
One of the largest christian sects gets in a big group every so often to have one of their wizards magic biscuits into meat, after all.

 

[AdmiralSnackbar]

Why are we not selling them chemical weapons? Just ship them vats of ranch dressing or something. They don't know what it is, bankrupt them.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

ISIS is run by Thanos (spoiler sorry)

 

[neorej]

Four Lions seems like a documentary at times like this.

 

[Hyun Sai]

Perhaps the Red Mercury is truly opening the gates to hell unlike this fake one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8aKEZcA2KU

 

[SolidusDave]

You would think at least the Smugglers know it's bullshit.

 

[War Peaceman]

Four Lions seems like a documentary at times like this.

Four Lions was based on research of actual terrorist cells.

One example were terrorists trying to blow up a navy vessel, they planned to drop the explosives off in a wooden boat and take it from there. However they put the explosives into the boat and it immediately sank.