Member of ISIS: “The Jews’ Time Will Come”In a rare conversation between a writer from Globes and a member of ISIS, he revealed the ways in which the organization recruits its members around the world and their goals for the future. God willing, from Syria we will expand the Caliphate, he said. Of course I feel good here. Jihad, in its time, is a personal commandment. I cannot recommend anything to you, but Allah told Muslims to follow his path, said Abu Torab, a 26-year-old American man, fighting in Halab, Syria, together with the forces of the Islamic State (ISIS). The reporter went to Abu Torab under the name Abd-al-Salam Afifi, a young man of 26 from Paris. He asked to figure out how he can join the fighting forces and to hear what the intentions of the organization are. First of all, get to Turkey, then Ill give you a phone number to call, and they will do the rest. Its that simple, he said. Dozens of young Americans and hundreds of young people from different countries in Europe are already in Syria and Iraq fighting alongside different factions, mainly ISIS, whose name has spread far and wide thanks to their swift and brutal conquests in various parts of what theyve called Islamic caliphate, and thanks to the pictures and videos that document the mass killings of Shiite infidels, Kurds, Yezidis, and anyone who does not meet the standards of the religion of Mohammed. Since quite a few fighters in the organization come from the USA and Europe, information in English is plentiful. Began with training videos, forums, and even personal contacts. These young people, it seems, are committed to the goal and work hard to recruit more fighters. Abu Torab found a European social network dedicated to questions and answers from users. Abu Torab is the star of this network, with hundreds of detailed answers to the questions of visitors from around the world who are interested in its activities and the possibility to join. Abu Torab said God willing from Syria we will expand the Caliphate,” and explained, The Jews’ and Hezbollah’s time will come soon.” A recent video on Jihad-related websites presents three young Brits in Syria, holding guns and calling on others to join them. One of them turns to the viewer and says: Are you willing to sacrifice your job, the big car, the family? Are you willing to sacrifice for the sake of Allah? Brothers in the West, I know how you feel, I lived there. In your hearts you are depressed. The medicine is Jihad. Brothers of mine, join Jihad and feel the respect we feel, feel the joy that we feel.” These young people feel alienated from the environment theyre in, explains Prof. Meir Litvak, Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel-Aviv University. They continue to talk about how they are the most anti of what is in front of them, and fundamentalist radical Islam represents it - the most anti-American, the rotten and corrupt vision. Most are not poor, it is not economic crisis that pushed them to despair. These youngsters are middle class, for example the British of Pakistani origin did the London bombings - its the same.” According to Abu-Torab, When I was going to go to Jihad, I left college and I thought I would be honest with myself and leave the land of the infidels and find a way to do Jihad. The idea came to me during Ramadan. A friend of mine said he dreamed that he and I were sitting with a Sheikh in Syrian or Palestinian or Iraqi clothes, doing jihad and speaking Arabic. A year later, I arrived in Syria at the end of Ramadan.” He will not say where in the United States he is from or his full name. He did say that he would come to Syria with 80 thousand dollars and sneakers. He seems to prefer the proximity of the Western fighters, otherwise I would lose my English skills, he said jokingly. When asked about marriage he said “someone from America would be good, but there are not a lot of Americans here, you know.” When asked what he misses he said “McDonald’s, of course.”
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:32:49 +0000