Vikings vs ISIS - What's the difference
The Viking's urge to kill is probably exaggerated in this and other gory eyewitness accounts. The warriors had no interest of sending more than necessary to death, people were worth most alive, and most victims were therefore not killed, but captured and used or sold as slaves.
Nowadays the Vikings exist no more, but the tactics, the brutality and the bloodshed are recognizable.
As the Vikings did, ISIS train children to fight and kill.
As the Vikings did, ISIS takes slaves and hostages.
The Vikings had no fear of dying in battle, as Valhalla was waiting, where there was party time with Thor and Odin. ISIS fighters have no fear of dying as Paradise and 72 promised virgins are waiting.
Vikings beheaded people. ISIS behead people.
Vikings considered Christians as infidels. ISIS considers Christians (and all other faiths, and faithless) as infidels, and both took/take them prisoners or killed/kill them.
The Vikings looted and destroyed. So do ISIS.
The Vikings developed plans and tactics with the purpose of destroy, extort, loot, kill, rape, take hostages and slaves. So do ISIS.
So, is there any difference between Vikings and ISIS?
Yes, several. 1300 years of development, culture and progress. The year is 2015, and while the Vikings have developed into a progressive Scandinavian race, where science and European culture is the driving force, ISIS is stuck on stupid, in the year 620, citing the Quran, and acting like the then bloodthirsty ignorant barbarians of the North.
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