ISIS Opens a 5-Star Hotel in Mosul

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

I find it hard to believe this hotel exists.

Probably someone is playing with the public.

Per the article, the hotel was the former Ninawa International Hotel (which had been highly rated on Tripadvisor, FWIW). ISIS is apparently trying to show it can not only conquer a city, but administer it as well. I doubt we'd deliberately bomb it because the Iraqi goverment (with our help, of course) plans to retake Mosul sometime this year.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Per the article, the hotel was the former Ninawa International Hotel (which had been highly rated on Tripadvisor, FWIW). ISIS is apparently trying to show it can not only conquer a city, but administer it as well. I doubt we'd deliberately bomb it because the Iraqi goverment (with our help, of course) plans to retake Mosul sometime this year.

Yup! That's what happens when you shitcan all the bureaucrats, managers, professionals and military of a country.... the people who actually ran the place. They band together to take it back. Daesh is full of old Ba'athists, many of whom only belonged to the party because they had to, and old military whose expertise far outstrips the current Iraqi army.

May Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Bremer all burn for an eternity.

[whell]

Christian be-headings for evening entertainment in the lounge.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by whell

Christian be-headings for evening entertainment in the lounge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ed_as_heretics

[whell]

Originally Posted by Boreas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ed_as_heretics

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/15/middle...gs-christians/

[d-ray657]

Looks like a couple of very good reasons to keep a tall wall of separation between church and state, doesn't it.

Regards,

D-Ray

[donquixote99]

Yes. Keep sovereign power away from the church. They go kind of crazy with it.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Looks like a couple of very good reasons to keep a tall wall of separation between church and state, doesn't it.

Regards,

D-Ray

That's more or less my point, or tentatively approaches it. There is no religion in whose name the most barbaric acts have been perpetrated.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a toss-up whether religion has been a net positive or a net negative in human society.

[Rajoo]

Imposition of Sharia law trumps the wall of separation mosque and state.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Imposition of Sharia law trumps the wall of separation mosque and state.

As would the imposition of Canon Law. Neither are appropriate means for governing a pluralistic society.

Regards,

D-Ray