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Originally Posted by frostfire
Mixed feeling over this. Hence, I'm pulling a Sigaba/Richard on this one.
The video creator cleary aims for pathos (emotion/passion) element. There are other videos in the similar fashion but depicting christians (kids at a retreat dancing in camo with sticks procaliming the spread of gospel. Yes, ridiculous comparison but it convinced my atheist roommate christians are no better than the jihadis). We also do not know the context of the executions and the time frame. It also portrays a segment of the population. (I don't want to start another long drawn out argument as I do agree that silence from the majority equals passive approval). The video cherrypicks the population. As I'm preparing for DLPT and have been wathing foreign TV channels, there are segments of the population encouraging hard work and extending a helping hand to strangers.
I know most of this board member have no problem discerning the content and viewing it in the proper context. However, this is a public forum and I'm mainly worried about Joe simpletons who would paint all moslem with the broad brush used for these animals. "hey, I saw on this green beret site that all moslems all blood-thirsy-throat-slitting animals. Let's go to ........gas stations and teach these ragheads a lesson!"
Hate Islam, love the muslim......as tough as that could possibly be, it demonstrates that we are indeed different, if not better than them.
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FF,
I take it by your post that you've never seen the Chechen Muj videos? WM's link is rated G compared to those guys' vids. Most often, they make those to prove their value to Muslim donors. The vids from the Russians are simply evil: they just hate the Chechens.
On a side note, good luck on your DLPT. Regardless of your lang, suggest reading OpEds and listening to news commentaries in your target lang.