The threat posed by ISIL to all countries

It is being debated by some members of the community that ISIL does not constitute a threat to the citizens of Australia, that we should just let them go at it in their part of the world while keeping quiet and they will leave us alone. This line of thinking is naive at best and dangerous at worst. ASIO has reported they have lost track of about 60 odd people travelling to the conflict areas, they are suspected of training and fighting with the ISIL forces, they will at some stage return to the shores of Australia if not killed in action. They are now unsure exactly who they are and where they have been.

Just recently, two police officers were stabbed by a person of interest in Melbourne as he voluntarily came into a police station for questioning, he had already had his passport cancelled. Whilst shot and killed by the officers, he had lunged at the officers wounding both, he had in his possession a longer knife, one presumes for decapitating the slain officers and an ISIL flag folded up in his pocket. It is believed he was to upload the pictures of the decapitated officers to social media draped in the ISIL flag.

The graphics posted on this page are very confronting, I make no apologies for this as these images are freely found on the internet under a basic Google isis search. For a bunch of people seeking to take the world back to the dark ages, they are amazingly proficient in the use of social media. Beheading and crucifixions are taking place in public places to encourage public viewing and one supposes to take photographs and video to upload.  

ISIL are using such images as a measure to subdue people through fear, being shot is immediate while beheading is a slow excruciating death.

The image of the James Foley beheading has been confirmed as correct, a number of other images are yet to be confirmed but are still being reported whilst a large number have the ISIL flag in the background to confirm the identity of the group. An image of a beheaded girl in a blue dress has been circulating for a number of years and is thought to be taken in Syria and committed by the Assad regime. It is though this is done to encourage western governments, chiefly being the United States to intervene in the conflict.