despicable

イスラム国の行為が取り上げられております。イスラム国は民族浄化の元に，スンニ派に属さないものは，市民であろうが殺害しているという新たな証拠が示されました。
記事の中で気になった単語は"despicable"です。『Wisdom英和辞典第三版（三省堂）』によると「軽蔑すべき，卑しい，卑劣な」などという意味がありました。
なぜこのような行為をするのか理解に苦しみますが，養老先生の著書『バカの壁』の中に，行為に至るヒントが書かれておりました。著書によると，イスラム教や，キリスト教などの一神教の宗教は，唯一の真理が規定されており，信者はその教えにだけ従い，教えに従わないものは悪であると考えるとあります。何を信じるのかは人の勝手ですが，生活を破壊されたり傷つけられるがわからしたら迷惑以外の何者でもないと思います。（Ume）
Iraq crisis: Islamic State accused of ethnic cleansing

Amnesty International says it has new evidence Islamic State militants are carrying out "a wave of ethnic cleansing" against minorities in northern Iraq.

The human rights group said IS had turned the region into "blood-soaked killing fields".

Earlier, Iraqi Shia militias and Kurdish forces broke a two-month siege by IS fighters in the town of Amerli.

IS and allied Sunni rebels have seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria.

Thousands of people have been killed, the majority of them civilians, and more than a million have been forced to flee their homes in recent months.

Amnesty says it has gathered proof that several mass killings took place in the northern region of Sinjar in August. Two of the deadliest took place when IS fighters raided villages and killed hundreds on 3 August and 15 August.

"Groups of men and boys including children as young as 12 from both villages were seized by IS militants, taken away and shot," the UK-based group said.

"IS is carrying out despicable crimes and has transformed rural areas of Sinjar into blood-soaked killing fields in its brutal campaign to obliterate all trace of non-Arabs and non-Sunni Muslims."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29026491

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