# Just how bad is ISIS? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-bad-is-isis/698135 "2014-09-11T02:29:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-bad-is-isis/698135/1 "2014-09-11T02:29:45Z")
Inspired by tonight’s Presidential speech. I remember it being major news when the two journalists were executed by ISIS thugs. What else have they done? Yes, the executions were a horrible tragedy. However, it doesn’t seem worth starting a war over. If somebody on the street here in the USA shot 2 men, they would be arrested and most likely get life in prison. Nobody would be going to war over it. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-bad-is-isis/698135/2 "2014-09-11T02:39:32Z")
Attempted genocide a good enough reason for you? ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-bad-is-isis/698135/3 "2014-09-11T02:42:28Z")
You have to kill the cancer before it spreads. ISIS is for real, and very ruthless. ---
**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-bad-is-isis/698135/4 "2014-09-11T02:50:01Z")
ISIS, IS, ISIL is cheap, as is beheading. Hard to believe this is the 21st century. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-bad-is-isis/698135/5 "2014-09-11T03:30:01Z")
I figure if Al Qaeda has distanced themselves from ISIS/ISIL because of their brutality and extremism, that has to be a very telling thing. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-bad-is-isis/698135/6 "2014-09-11T04:52:02Z")
ISIS is a pretty bad organization, but Archer and Lana have done a few good things during their time there. Wait, did you mean the Iraqi ISIS? Well, they’re a bunch of jerks, and I don’t care who hears me say it. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-bad-is-isis/698135/7 "2014-09-11T12:27:59Z")
Dude, there are ALOT more beheadings than just the 2 americans. Go on google and look at the pictures of ISIS goons all smiles, posing in front of iron fences lines with peoples heads all over the top like an 80’s horror movie, except it’s real. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-bad-is-isis/698135/8 "2014-09-11T12:33:03Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > What else have they done? :dubious: Less boffing, more keeping up with current events…