Onion Explains: The Terrifying Growth Of ISIS

What motivates the brutal terrorist group to commit its atrocities and how does it use technology to spread fear worldwide? The Onion explains the horrifying spread of ISIS.

[victoriawinters]

"Just drop every bomb we've got on the enemies of freedom. "
oh The Onion, you never fail to humour me.

[dorkiecookie]

I love that the subtitles were just random arabic alphabets

[OmarKhaled-emmf]

I love how they ACTUALLY discussed the reasons that isis came into existence.

[JREG]

This right here is some effective satire.

[MrChase]

This doesn't feel like the Onion, this just feels like straight up truth.

[Xenozillex]

If you search up ' reasons why the west is bad' you get results about Kanye west. Pretty accurate.

[MarkoKraguljac]

Will I be marked for suspicious/terrorist activity if I click Like?

[DonutEatingDoggo]

1:51 Almost died laughing as I snorted the noodles I ate out of my nostrils seeing that guy at the front row, middle column doing a good job at push ups.

[Schurfable]

But I thought everything was very simple. I thought everything was black and white. I thought some groups of people were worth less than others. Am I gonna have to start thinking now?

[blairassani]

You had me at “college costs too much”

[bytemegga]

I'm impressed at how much research they've conducted. Onion is better than MSM

[gagan.dee.p]

ISIS truly found the most effective, reliable, clear cut method to find the existence of God. I am inspired too

[frhuntrz]

Lmao if you look at the "Arabic subtitles", you'll realize that it's actually the spoken English sentence BUT spelled with Arabic letters!
They chose the letters which closely resemble the Latin alphabet, whether in sound or in shape.

For example: 1:43
_"And talk about all of the five ways the West is bad"_
Subtitles:
" ا د ن ت ا ل ك ا ب ه و ت ا ل ل ه ف ت ح ع ف ي ذ ع ش ا ط س ت ح ع ش ع س ت ي س ب ا د "


The Arabic letter ه here represents the Latin "o" because it looks like it
The same goes for Arabic's ع which looks like the letter E
And Arabic's ش looks like the letter W
While ذ looks like the letter V to them


As for the others, they are actually the correct counterparts in terms of sound.
Arabic ا is the equivalent of the vowel "a"
Arabic ت sounds the same as the consonant T
And ل is the letter L
And ح is the letter H
And ف is the letter F

And so on.

[ovbronco]

I love how reasonswhythewestisbad in the subtitles for this is just the irs website

[Phi]

If I need certainty in an uncertain world I know I can always turn to the Onion for answers.

[idontknow]

They play too much cod


GAMERTAG: OSAMAS_BEEN_LAGGING

[anunkash]

btw this is how you fight terrorism.
you point and laugh.

[Hannodb]

This is fricken amazing. The Onion is actually MORE FACTUALLY CORRECT than the main stream media!!! Most "journalists" who report on Islamic issues have never picked up a Quran in their lives. This article shows insight even in Islamic believes about eschatology!

[eluive]

how come the US always picks the second explanation/option?

[schehabalthawr]

Love the educated implications behind the satire. You definitely did some extensive research.