Pure Brutality

[Leonardo17]

I recently came upon this BBC interview on the life of women in the regions that are being controlled by ISIL.
In summary an ISIL fighter needs only to see a woman. Then if he wants to he can take that woman (after a sham marriage ceremony = She is being asked 3 times by the Imam, than she is the wife of the guy she doesn’t even know). Then the ISIL fighter buy her stuff and does with her things that he wants to do (buying her some sexy underwear etc.) Then the ISIL fighter gets killed and these two get to escape Syria and talk to the press in Turkey:
 




 
This video reminds me of a 2019 movie called “Miss Bala”. I am not sure but I think it has to be available on Netflix.


 
The plot is very interesting. Gloria’s sister Suzu gets kidnapped by the Mexican Cartel and Gloria decides not to let it go. The DEA also spots her and decides to use her as a covert agent inside the Mexican drug cartel. So she play the role of a “friend” of the cartel member Lino Esparza. Esparza is an interesting very clever character that I would define as a sociopath. (Psychopaths are born this way – sociopaths are people who turn into what they are because of their environment in their early childhood). Gloria is such an interesting character because she knows how to set limits with this psycho Esparza and manages to get out of the situation basically unharmed. In the movie there is this other woman Isabel. This one is more like the property of the cartel. Esparza is basically doing whatever he wants with her and Isabel is basically supposed to take it all in while still having a smile on her face. In the end she even loses her will to live and ends up sacrificing herself in order to give Gloria a chance to escape.
 
I decided to share this here because I’ve recently read that people with severe personality disorders (narcissists, Borderlines, sociopaths, especially narcissists) can be very good at using religion and spirituality as a cover or as a pretext to carry-out their antagonistic behaviors on more ordinary people. As I tried to explain before, I don’t believe this has anything to do with what I would call “real” religion or spirituality.
 
Unfortunately, there are many groups that have the stamp of “Islam” on them. But on the level of practice, these are drug cartels, barbarian hordes, mafia-like organizations or political organizations whose modus-operandi is similar to that far-right parties all over the world.
 
I cannot say there is no gender roles in religious teachings. This is an aspect of our lives in this world so most spiritual teachers did say a thing or two on these issues.
 
Still it is not possible to study these issues and establish any type of connection between that and what is pure and simple brutality. I believe that something like the Taliban could not have existed in the old ages. I think at some point, there would be a truly religiously motivated war against them.
 
Today there is no Christendom and/or Caliphate of any kind. We all became nation-states. But if there was such a thing. The IRI (for instance), and all other parallels would probably be seen heretics and other nations would subdue them in one way or the other.