Former ISIS teen fighter says it’s better to eat dirt than join ISIS
By Mark Ellis, Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
SYRIA (ANS – July 19, 2017)
-- After ISIS took over his territory in Syria, 17-year-old Ibn Mesud*
joined the Cubs of the Caliphate and was heavily pressured into taking a
suicide mission — told his death would be painless and he would go
straight to paradise.
A
shocking new video, “The Glorious Martyrs of the Islamic State,” is
based on an interview with Mesud in Turkey by the International Center
for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE).
“They
took over our area,” Mesud recounts on the video. “They called for
everyone to come to the mosques. They taught us about the Koran, about
prayers and preached to us.”
Mesud admits he “was just a child…just a student.”
The
ISIS fighters indoctrinated him and about 1500 other Syrian teens and
pre-teens about ISIS, its “accomplishments” in Iraq, and about ISIS
being “righteous.”
“We will take you to fight with us,” they told their young recruits.
Mesud’s
father is disabled and unable to work. Faced with the prospect of
quitting school to financially support his brothers and sisters, he
decided to accept the money offered to join ISIS.
At
the outset, the young Cubs of the Caliphate pledged their allegiance to
the sheikh and committed to fight for the Islamic State.
Mesud’s training involved religious lessons in the morning, then training in weaponry and fighting in the afternoon.
He
noticed something unusual as time went by: the Cubs of the Caliphate
were put on the front lines while the foreign fighters remained at ISIS’
headquarters.
*name changed for security reasons
Photo captions: 1) A child soldier. 2) ISIS training child soldiers. 3) Mark Ellis.
About the writer: Mark Ellis is Senior Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net), and is also the founder of www.GodReports.com,
a website that shares testimonies and videos from the church around the
world to build interest and involvement in world missions. Previously,
Mark co-hosted a TV show called “Windows on the World” with ANS Founder,
Dan Wooding, aired on the Holy Spirit Broadcasting Network (http://hsbn.tv/), which is now co-hosted by Dr. Garry Ansdell, Senior Pastor of Hosanna Christian Fellowship in Bellflower, California.
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