#isisbrides — Public Fediverse posts

However you would like to answer these questions with regards to the eleven #ISISbrides, I wonder if your answer is any different when it comes to the 500+ Australian citizens who have travelled to the Middle East in recent years to join another death cult engaged in horrific crimes against civilians, on an even larger scale, in order to keep expanding an even more heavily armed and well-funded religiously-aligned project of domination: the IDF.

During its most intense period of sustained slaughter, lasting around two years from 2014–16, #IslamicState (#ISIS) forces killed over 25,000 people (the precise figure may never be known), the vast majority civilians/non-combatants, with many more wounded, held captive and tortured, or forced to flee, a horrific reign of terror whose effects continue to reverberate across the region a decade later.

During its most intense period of sustained slaughter, lasting around two years from 2023–25, the #IDF killed well over 100,000 people (the precise figure may never be known), the vast majority civilians/non-combatants, with many more wounded, held captive and tortured, or forced to flee, a horrific reign of terror whose violence has not ceased today.
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However you would like to answer these questions with regards to the eleven #ISISbrides, I wonder if your answer is any different when it comes to the 500+ Australian citizens who have travelled to the Middle East in recent years to join another death cult engaged in horrific crimes against civilians, on an even larger scale, in order to keep expanding an even more heavily armed and well-funded religiously-aligned project of domination: the IDF.

During its most intense period of sustained slaughter, lasting around two years from 2014–16, #IslamicState (#ISIS) forces killed over 25,000 people (the precise figure may never be known), the vast majority civilians/non-combatants, with many more wounded, held captive and tortured, or forced to flee, a horrific reign of terror whose effects continue to reverberate across the region a decade later.

During its most intense period of sustained slaughter, lasting around two years from 2023–25, the #IDF killed well over 100,000 people (the precise figure may never be known), the vast majority civilians/non-combatants, with many more wounded, held captive and tortured, or forced to flee, a horrific reign of terror whose violence has not ceased today.
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Before #Iran knocked most other news off the front page, Australian political discourse was dominated last week by finger-pointing, point-scoring and posturing over the so-called #ISISbrides: 11 Australian women who travelled to Syria or Iraq over a decade ago with their husbands allegedly in order to join Islamic State/ISIS. The husbands were all killed or captured by Kurdish/FSA forces, with their wives and children also captured and detained separately. This cohort of 11 women and 23 children has been held in a detention camp for the last 6+ years. The camp has recently changed hands and is in the process of being shut down.

So these women and children are now reportedly trying to return to Australia, The federal government has largely ignored them for years, even though it has a legal obligation to accept their entry as citizens.

The #ALP government, #Coalition (putative) opposition and surging far-right #OneNation have each been engaged in an #Islamophobic race-to-the-bottom, seeking to outdo one another in denunciation & performative cruelty (including towards 23 children—whatever people may think about the terrible decision by their parent(s) a decade ago).

What has been missing from this entire discussion?
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Before #Iran knocked most other news off the front page, Australian political discourse was dominated last week by finger-pointing, point-scoring and posturing over the so-called #ISISbrides: 11 Australian women who travelled to Syria or Iraq over a decade ago with their husbands allegedly in order to join Islamic State/ISIS. The husbands were all killed or captured by Kurdish/FSA forces, with their wives and children also captured and detained separately. This cohort of 11 women and 23 children has been held in a detention camp for the last 6+ years. The camp has recently changed hands and is in the process of being shut down.

So these women and children are now reportedly trying to return to Australia, The federal government has largely ignored them for years, even though it has a legal obligation to accept their entry as citizens.

The #ALP government, #Coalition (putative) opposition and surging far-right #OneNation have each been engaged in an #Islamophobic race-to-the-bottom, seeking to outdo one another in denunciation & performative cruelty (including towards 23 children—whatever people may think about the terrible decision by their parent(s) a decade ago).

What has been missing from this entire discussion?
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