The development of events is well known: in different spots in Paris a well- organized and coordinated group of people shouting Islamic prayer formula (Allah Akbar etc.) started firing at civilians sitting in the bars and cafes that evening preparing to celebrate the weekend. In conjunction suicide bomber attacked the Paris stadium Stade de Paris when French and German teams were playing a football match. At the same time, a group of terrorists rushed to the concert hall Bataclan where a concert of American band Eagles of Death Metal should just begin, and started firing at the crowd, taking them all as hostages. As a result, about two hundred people were killed and many more sustained various injuries. Islamic State said to be responsible for the terrorist attacks.
Details and versions of the events will be continuously updated, but it is important not only to understand the distinction, but also to figure out the meaning of them.
"Islam" Society of the Spectacle: Welcome to our Horror-Show
The terrorist organization ISIS is different from other trends of modern Islamic fundamentalism not only by the activity scope and success in controlling the large territory of Iraq and Syria, by branched networks in other Islamic countries and the effective coordination, but first of all, by grotesque arrangement of actions usually of a terrorist nature. Its executions of hostages are always conducted by the ISIS members as a theatrical play: the victim wears the orange uniform, the executioners cutting the head off and scoffing at the body in front of camera. The professional operators work, precisely chosen lighting and well-directed heartbreaking scenes surpassing Hollywood movies like Hostel or forbidden snuff-video, where the violence is real. Christians are crucified in public. Ancient priceless monuments of archaic Middle East cultures which are very valuable for the whole civilization are mercilessly smashed. Homosexuals are dropped from roofs and their execution is carefully filmed. Captured women and girls are brutally raped and turned into slaves. Children from early ages are taught to cut throat of their teddy bears with a knife. Again, all that is filmed and methodically published in the Internet. The ISIS speakers add in their videos straight extreme threat to all their opponents, promising them to be killed, raped, dismembered, enslaved, humiliated and trampled, and their value to be turn to dust. All that is based on the classical Islamist ideas of extreme Salafi persuasion, but theology does not seem to ISIS as main aspect: there is something different than a classic Islamic fundamentalism; it is Islam society of the spectacle, disgusting Islamist snuff-show. No more boring preachers, raging Salafi theologians, only black bulldozer of entertainment industry fully adopted those models created by the modern Hollywood culture with dominating horror and hard porn with all the characteristics of reality shows.
It distinguishes the ISIS style. It is kind of post-modernism; it is postmodern fundamentalist terrorism. It has more common traits with the western visual culture rather than with the traditional religious societies that ISIS pretends to promote waging the war. Religion is an instrument, serving politics, and even more entertainment. The ISIS is first of all the show, the horrible show. It seems that it is what the Western countries really expected.
A very good read :
Details and versions of the events will be continuously updated, but it is important not only to understand the distinction, but also to figure out the meaning of them.
"Islam" Society of the Spectacle: Welcome to our Horror-Show
The terrorist organization ISIS is different from other trends of modern Islamic fundamentalism not only by the activity scope and success in controlling the large territory of Iraq and Syria, by branched networks in other Islamic countries and the effective coordination, but first of all, by grotesque arrangement of actions usually of a terrorist nature. Its executions of hostages are always conducted by the ISIS members as a theatrical play: the victim wears the orange uniform, the executioners cutting the head off and scoffing at the body in front of camera. The professional operators work, precisely chosen lighting and well-directed heartbreaking scenes surpassing Hollywood movies like Hostel or forbidden snuff-video, where the violence is real. Christians are crucified in public. Ancient priceless monuments of archaic Middle East cultures which are very valuable for the whole civilization are mercilessly smashed. Homosexuals are dropped from roofs and their execution is carefully filmed. Captured women and girls are brutally raped and turned into slaves. Children from early ages are taught to cut throat of their teddy bears with a knife. Again, all that is filmed and methodically published in the Internet. The ISIS speakers add in their videos straight extreme threat to all their opponents, promising them to be killed, raped, dismembered, enslaved, humiliated and trampled, and their value to be turn to dust. All that is based on the classical Islamist ideas of extreme Salafi persuasion, but theology does not seem to ISIS as main aspect: there is something different than a classic Islamic fundamentalism; it is Islam society of the spectacle, disgusting Islamist snuff-show. No more boring preachers, raging Salafi theologians, only black bulldozer of entertainment industry fully adopted those models created by the modern Hollywood culture with dominating horror and hard porn with all the characteristics of reality shows.
It distinguishes the ISIS style. It is kind of post-modernism; it is postmodern fundamentalist terrorism. It has more common traits with the western visual culture rather than with the traditional religious societies that ISIS pretends to promote waging the war. Religion is an instrument, serving politics, and even more entertainment. The ISIS is first of all the show, the horrible show. It seems that it is what the Western countries really expected.
A very good read :
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