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The cost of leaving IS: Death or jail
[SAUDIGAZETTE.SA] The man stands furtively on a street corner, his face masked by a hoodie, his tense eyes scanning the crowd for any hint of murderous Moslems linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. He was one of them before he left Syria a year ago, and he is afraid. Now he chain-smokes as he describes the indiscriminate killing, the abuse of female recruits, the discomfort of a life where meals were little more than bread and cheese or oil. He recounts the knife held to his throat by fellow fighters who demanded he recite a particular Koranic verse on Islamic warfare to prove himself. Posted by: Fred 2015-02-04 |
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