On a scale of 1-10 how large a threat is ISIS?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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	2 (10%)
	9
	0 (0%)
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	1 (5%)
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	3 (14%)
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	1 (5%)
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	1 (5%)
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	0 (0%)
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	0 (0%)
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	2 (10%)
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[Scuba]

1. Threat to whom?

[ZombieHorde]

2. Exactly.

They are no threat to me, but they do seem to threaten some people.

[etherealtruth]

38. That was my first thought ....?

To folk in Iraq and Syria ...11, to others in the middles east .... 7, 8, 9,or 10, to the residents of Belize ...0

[NightWatcher]

3. 10's???

You are being manipulated by another boogieman created by people who want perpetual war.

[fadedrose]

4. I think Ebola is No. 1

But since other countries are getting involved in defeating ISIS, the threat is going from 10 to a little less....

PM Cameron (Britain) is a cheerleader opposing ISIS and our leaders are finally showing the passion to fight them, so it would have been a "10" a few days ago.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. There are two axes to the threat matrix

severity and probability.

ISIS are a 6 on the severity scale and a 4 on probability. This is unlike sea level rise for example, which is a 9 on the severity scale and a 9.5 on probability.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Threat to the US mainland, I'd give it a 7.

Threat to US interests/personnel in the middle east and Asia, I'd give it a 9.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. giant threat to syrians/iraqi minorities. not so much to north americans.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. To what? With out that answer, it's impossible to rate.

[bigwillq]

9. Very little threat to me (nt)

[Chathamization]

10. As big a threat as the “knock-out game” N/T

[PlanetaryOrbit]

13. Has the knockout game killed hundreds? n/t.

[Capt. Obvious]

11. This threat goes to 11

[Marrah_G]

12. To whom? They are a huge threat to some people and not much of one to others.

[PlanetaryOrbit]

14. Threat to Iraqi Christians? Extremely high.

Threat to the US? Very low.

[frazzled]

15. What an insensitive question

You might as well have asked what threat the Ferguson police department is to me, an older white woman who lives in an entirely different city and state. Well, none, obviously. Does that mean I don't think the Justice Department should not be devoting time and resources to investigating (and possibly prosecuting) them?

ISIS is a large threat to those who happen to be non-Sunni Syrians or Iraqis. Let's recall the current toll:

Start with Monday’s testimony before the U.N. Human Rights Council. The documented incidents include 1,700 captives executed in Tikrit, Iraq, and 650 in Mosul, Iraq. Some 1,000 Turkmen massacred, including 100 children. More than 2,000 women and children kidnapped. “Systematic hunting of members of ethnic and religious groups.” Women raped and sold. Young boys executed. Girls enslaved for sexual abuse. Children recruited as suicide bombers. More than 1 million refugees, half of them kids.

Then read the report Amnesty International issued Tuesday. Its title is “Ethnic Cleansing on Historic Scale: The Islamic State’s Systematic Targeting of Minorities in Northern Iraq.” The report details, with eyewitness testimony, several more ISIS atrocities in Iraq. At least 100 men and boys herded together and shot to death in Kocho. “Scores of men and boys” summarily executed in Qiniyeh. More than 50 men “rounded up and shot dead” near Jdali.

Human Rights Watch also released a report on Tuesday. It offers new evidence about the massacre in Tikrit. “Information from a survivor and analysis of videos and satellite imagery has confirmed the existence of three more mass execution sites,” says the report. That brings the death toll to “between 560 and 770 men.” The captives were shot dead while lying in trenches with their hands bound.

For a more complete tally of the carnage, check out the U.N.’s latest casualty figures for Iraq. The 1,265 civilians killed in August, combined with 1,186 in July and 1,531 in June, yield a total of 6,861 so far this year, and 9,826 over the last 12 months. The report doesn’t specify how much of the killing was done by ISIS, but it does say that “thousands continue to be targeted and killed by [ISIS] and associated armed groups simply on account of their ethnic or religious background.” These figures don’t include the uncollectible data from Anbar province—which covers half the Syrian border and nearly one-third of Iraq—or any of the nearly 200,000 people killed in the Syrian civil war.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/09/don_t_watch_isis_s_murder_of_steven_sotloff_honor_him_by_remembering_the.html

Your question should rather be: what is the best way to proceed (or not) to prevent more killings and ethnic cleansings. Who cares what threat ISIS poses to any one of us?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. I don't think I specified who the threat was to and nor did I categorize the magnitude of it./NT

[frazzled]

17. There's something called implicature

And more than half the respondents in this thread are questioning your question. The other half are taking it as the threat to themselves or to the US. So you need to think seriously about rewording it to be specific. Absent that, this is just a trash-thread candidate: flame bait, pure and simple.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. I merely asked a question. I can not control other people's inferences nor do I want to./NT

[frazzled]

21. A very stupid question

which, as you well know, invites stupid answers. So if you want to be king of shit-stirring, keep asking these kinds of questions. You are no innocent here: it was a pointedly obtuse question that does not invite rational discussion. Be proud, be very proud.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. I regret the fact you are using this poll to cast aspersions on my character./NT

[Tom Rinaldo]

19. They are the face of the year for a dangerous movement

It is the ideology of murderous religious extremism that is the threat, more so than this particular collection of extremists at that place at this time. Murderous religious extremism historically has never been solely Islamic, virtually all mega religions have out breaks of it from time to time. At the moment it is most virulent at the Muslim fringe where circumstances make its advancement viable. But t can trigger extremist reactions in other religions also; be it Christian vs. Muslim in Nigeria, or Hindu vs Muslim in India, or Jewish vs Muslim in the Middle East, and it can contribute to the rise of extreme right wing Christianity in America alsp as the world wide climate for religious tolerance deteriorates.

So while I rate ISIS as a 3 or 4, I rate jhadism as a 7 and religious extremism in general as 8 or higher.

[Frustratedlady]

23. I was not originally concerned about them hitting the homeland, but

recent reports of missing planes (hitting US interests/embassies), Americans joining forces with ISIS and growing conflict in the Middle East by religious factions, I'd rate it a 7-8.

It doesn't take that many living in the US to make a point. Not to the degree of 911, but enough to scare the bejeebers out of most normal, caring individuals. Look at the targets that would be easy marks. Football games, fall festivities, large churches. It only takes one.

For one, they need to kill the promise of 72 virgins on the other side. Should have been done many years ago. Once believed, it's like a catnip trip that won't shut off. Sheesh! Ignorance abounds.

[LittleBlue]

24. A threat to whom?

To the US? 1. At worst they could create terrorist attacks, which create lots of panic and fear but really are no actual threat to the country overall.

[hrmjustin]

25. I am not going to give a number but they are a serious threat to the people of the

Middle East and around the world.

[Autumn]

26. To the United States? Zero

To oil companies, MIC contractors, it's a threat. Fuck em.

[el_bryanto]

28. And also presumably those Iraqi people that Isis executes and kills ? nt

[Autumn]

29. Yeah, bush and dick should be on trial for what they did.

You notice I said to the United States zero threat. There are atrocities going on in other countries also.

[MineralMan]

27. Can't answer. I don't have enough information.

Further, a threat to whom? That's not clear at all in your poll.

[whatchamacallit]

30. 1, unless we do all the miraculous shit we did right before and on 9/11

Like ignoring protocol, diverting resources, and shutting down key defenses...

[BainsBane]

31. A threat to what and whom?

That is the question. Your poll doesn't provide options for that so I can't answer.

[pampango]

32. To me they are a 1 or 2. To other folks in the world they are a 10. Should I ignore them

because they are not an immediate threat to me?

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

First they came for the women, and I did not speak out -
Because I am not a woman.

Then they came for the Shia, and I did nothing -
Because I am not a Shia.

Then they came for the journalists, and I did nothing -
Because I am not a journalist.

You know the rest.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

33. "10. Serious to the amount of 10."

What do these numbers mean, again?

[Initech]

34. Our militaristic police and for profit prisons are a far bigger threat to us than Isis is.

[Rex]

35. I don't know.

They seem to be bound and determined to get us back into Iraq, so we can kill them all.

[StevieM]

36. I never understood why people usually rank things on a scale of 1 to 10, instead of 0 to 10. (eom)

[Taitertots]

37. Today the threat is very small

If they are allowed to grow unchecked, then it could become a huge problem.

[Mojo Electro]

39. I picked 10

Because, to anybody they actually come in contact with, they most assuredly are.