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ISIS or Cuba/No. Korea

ISIS or Cuba/No.Korea ?

As I was reading an excerpt from a newspaper, I was having some difficulty trying to decide if the philosophy of ISIS is in fact much different from that of the leaders in some communist countries. I have extracted four quotes from this newspaper editorial, and I am hoping that some readers may be able to aid me in separating their tenets. Are the following ISIS inspired or is this from a communist newspaper?

1. “We all have problematic claims, the origins of which were ingrained in us by our discriminatory and biased society.”

To me this sounds more like ISIS in essence telling the readers that the views with which we were brought up, are indeed mistaken, but that they were the victims because their society was indoctrinating them.

2. “It is vital that we encourage people to correct and learn from their mistakes rather than berate them for a lack of education they could not control.”

Now to me almost sounds like something from a communist manifesto explaining to the people that the government will not hold the uneducated masses responsible for their misconstrued views because they were the unwitting victims of a biased education system.

3. “This being said, if people are given the resources to learn and either continue to speak hate speech, or refuse to adapt their beliefs, then hostility may be warranted.”

This one was really tough for me. Was this the communist regime of Cuba warning their citizens that speaking out against the government might result in jail for an indefinite period of time, or was this ISIS warning Christians that their failure to convert to Islam could result in torture and death?

4. “It is important to note that our preference for education over beration regards students who may not have been given a chance to learn.”

This appears to apply to both ISIS and communist regimes . . . meaning that we will give you one chance to learn the right way, but if you do not learn, then you will be punished – as we know best.

While obviously I only took excerpts from this editorial, what you have here conveys the true message of the piece.

Okay, time to decide. Was this from a newspaper in a communist regime (Cuba/No. Korea) or was this ISIS inspired?

If you said, “communist regime” . . . wrong!

If you said, “ISIS inspired” . . .   also wrong!

Actually, these quotes are from the Wellesley News, a student newspaper at Wellesley College, a private women’s liberal arts college west of Boston, in Wellesley Ma. While many “institutions of higher learning” are producing snowflakes, in Wellesley there is a blizzard!

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