Although the Prime Minister spoke firmly against the terrorist in his speech on Tuesday, he has not said anything about whether or not he will pay the ransom. We will have to wait and see what his plan is come tomorrow and find out if these men will suffer from a terrible fate.
Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, 1602
Tenebrism
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Update on ISIS
Recently the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe offered aid of 200 million dollars to countries that have been effected by ISIS. Shortly after a new video was presented of two Japanese hostages and a masked ISIS member. This member demanded the 200 million in exchange for the hostages. He demanded the money be handed over in 72 hours, sometime friday January 22 or else those two men will suffer the same fate as past hostages. The Prime Minister has decided to stick with his offer of aid and called the threat "unacceptable". Tokyo has not participated in any air strikes like the US however because they are a strong ally, they have been singled out.
Although the Prime Minister spoke firmly against the terrorist in his speech on Tuesday, he has not said anything about whether or not he will pay the ransom. We will have to wait and see what his plan is come tomorrow and find out if these men will suffer from a terrible fate.
Although the Prime Minister spoke firmly against the terrorist in his speech on Tuesday, he has not said anything about whether or not he will pay the ransom. We will have to wait and see what his plan is come tomorrow and find out if these men will suffer from a terrible fate.
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As of recently, the two Japanese journalists previously mentioned in the blog post above, were beheaded by Islamic militants. The believed reason for this massacre was due to the fact that an Islamic refugee was imprisoned in Jordan and ISIS wanted him back. Jordan would only release that prisoner if the Islamic State had released a Jordanian military pilot. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Islamic State had threatened to kill Mr. Goto (the Japanese journalist) unless the prisoner was released by sundown Thursday. That deadline passed without any signs of progress." Since there wasn't any cooperation between ISIS and the release of the Jordanian pilot, the two Japanese journalists were killed. This occurred on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteAs we can see, Japan refused to hand over the $200 million that ISIS demanded. A question that I had would be why did ISIS want that much money and why did they demand all of it immediately? This can lead us to believe that ISIS is weakening and are in dire need of funds. But, since they didn't get what they wanted, they killed the two journalists. But now, Jordan shouldn't release their hostage back to ISIS. We see that this is an ongoing cycle that just needs to be stopped.