Originally Posted by Dread Knot (Post 2231013)

Is this just my perception, or are recent developments surrounding ISIS under-reported? Is it just currently in the shadow of the Gaza fight? I know it's been a bloody summer.

BBC News didn't have anything on their site about the battle surrounding the Mosul dam. Seems like game changing stuff. Old nations falling apart, new ones developing, a potential new Taliban state, ethnic cleansing of Christians and Islamic minorities. Shrines being destroyed and religious communities that have a 3000-year history in the region driven out, and the only people who seem to be able to lift a finger to help them are the over stretched Kurds. Who should frankly be focusing on keeping all this madness on the other side of their checkpoints.

Originally Posted by Tribesman (Post 2231031)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28677283
That story covers a lot of what you say isn't there.
For the other aspects simply scroll down and click on the headlines for each relevant topic

Originally Posted by Skybird (Post 2231025)

:D How could something as tiny and relatively unimportant as the Gaza war "overshadow" big massacres like the ISIS barbary spreading, or the almost 200,000 dead in Syria, or the frequent massacres of Boko Haram?

It does not overshadow these events - it gets intentionally blown beyond proportion, because "Muslims do not do evil". Jews do. Muslims not. Capice? ;)

Originally Posted by donna52522 (Post 2231152)

I am not sure if this has turned into a joke thread or not, but even Mr. Stevens had said before...The Boston Bombers (those who survived for trial) are being tried for using Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's).

If a pressure cooker can be considered a WMD then any enemy we face has WMD's...and possibly corn.