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Saudi dad smuggles his two sons, ages 10 and 11, into Syria, joins the Islamic State’s jihad

Aug 11, 2014 3:07 pm By Robert Spencer

SaudifathertwosonsNot to worry: the two boys will “receive the necessary training before being sent to the battlefield.” And they certainly have their father’s consent to engage in jihad activity. So what are you concerned about, you ethnocentric Islamophobe? Affirm multiculturalism!

“Saudi father smuggles sons to Syria, joins ISIS,” Al Arabiya, August 11, 2014:

A Saudi father smuggled his two children into Syria to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) after he made his way with them to Syria via Turkey, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.

Photos showing Abed al-Shayeq, 11, and Ahmed al-Shayeq, 10, posing with their father in front of an ISIS banner have been widely shared on social media, days after their mother resorted to Twitter to voice her concerns.

The mother received a text-message Monday from the father asking her to consider her children “birds in paradise,” a phrase used to describe “martyred” children.

One of the sons is shown in the picture holding an AK-47 in one hand, a grenade in the other.

Further, social media accounts affiliated with the ISIS posted that the two boys will “receive the necessary training before being sent to the battlefield.”

The father initially told the mother he was taking the two boys on a trip to one of the Gulf countries, when in fact he was making his way to Syria through Turkey, Al Hayat Newspaper reported.

Since the children were in their father’s company upon their arrival to Turkey, they would not have been considered kidnapped under Turkish law, Saudi Ambassador Adel Murad in Ankara told Al Arabiya News Channel on Friday.

The man kidnapped the children following a dispute with his wife, whom he is separated from, Al Watan newspaper reported.

As part of measures to stop citizens from joining terrorist groups abroad, Saudi authorities recently issued orders for the incarceration of four men suspected of aiding others in their travel to Syria to join ISIS fighters.

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  1. CJ says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 3:14 pm

    They are now FAIR GAME..

  2. Ashley says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 3:27 pm

    Why did this article fail to identify the father by name?

    • enwhitenment says

      Aug 12, 2014 at 12:42 am

      His name is useless C-NT but I imagine he would an alias like Mumimdead or similar.
      Lets hope the kids use their rifles to help him reach the other turkeys in paradlice.

  3. GP says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 3:30 pm

    That was his mistake, he could have sent his sons to America instead where they would have gotten food, clothing, benefits, an attorney, probably citizenship and a college education and then they could attack the great satan from within.

    Wake up and smell the peace!

    • Wtf? says

      Aug 11, 2014 at 9:33 pm

      This is good. They won’t survive and another generation is wiped out. Let them go and take their mullahs,sheiks and anyone else who wants to go. In fact the Saudis should be taking school trips there.

  4. somehistory says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 3:37 pm

    Fifteen minutes of infamy at the expense of his two little boys. This is most likely to increase as each *dad* has to outdo all the other *dads* in how many sons they can bring to the sacrifice.
    How can there be further doubt about whom these people worship?

  5. Richie says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 3:44 pm

    Time to destroy that pagan black stone in Mecca, that black penis idol Muslims pray to every day

    • No Fear says

      Aug 12, 2014 at 1:55 am

      The Kaaba is a penis idol? I would see a doctor if I were you….

  6. gravenimage says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    Saudi dad smuggles his two sons, ages 10 and 11, into Syria, joins the Islamic State’s jihad
    ……………………………………..

    Western fathers—except for some who are mentally ill—try to *protect* their children.

    Whereas child abuse is an organized part of Islam.

    More:

    One of the sons is shown in the picture holding an AK-47 in one hand, a grenade in the other
    ……………………………………..

    And Islam socializes children—little boys especially—into the savagery of their creed as soon as possible…

    More:

    Further, social media accounts affiliated with the ISIS posted that the two boys will “receive the necessary training before being sent to the battlefield.”
    ……………………………………..

    That almost certainly means that this is not the actions of one unhinged guy—ISIS is going to accept sacrificial children *as young as ten* to train as Jihadists, and sacrifice in the battlefield or as suicide bombers.

    And this is not the first we’ve heard of ISIS using child soldiers.

    Nor is this just ISIS—Boko Haram has been using kidnapped children as soldiers and as suicide bombers.

    More:

    The mother received a text-message Monday from the father asking her to consider her children “birds in paradise,” a phrase used to describe “martyred” children.
    ……………………………………..

    He *wants* them to die, the *sick f*ck.*

    Another thing—you seldom see Muslims really smiling in photographs, yet this bastard is grinning from ear to ear at the thought of using his little boys being killed while murdering someone else. *Ugh*.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Ashley says

      Aug 11, 2014 at 4:40 pm

      The man kidnapped the children following a dispute with his wife, whom he is separated from, Al Watan newspaper reported.
      ______________________

      IMO, there is something “off” with this story. The father is not identified. He told his estranged wife he was taking the boys “on a trip to one of the Gulf countries.” Was mom okay with dad taking the boys on a trip following the “dispute?”

      The article makes no mention of dad’s allegiance to ISIS.

      I don’t know. This sounds more like a fucked-up domestic dispute. Too many critical details are lacking. The photo is taunting, as is the “birds in paradise” text. Sure sounds like the bastard is tormenting his ex.

      I can’t find anything more on this story…I only stumble across this same article. Not sure I can buy it at face value…

      Is Al Arabiya deemed a reliable and credible news source?

      • Ashley says

        Aug 11, 2014 at 4:47 pm

        PS: Disclaimer: I’m not trying to be difficult! It is just that the article, as presented, raises some questions in my mind. Can someone please find another article on the matter? TIA!

      • Mirren10 says

        Aug 11, 2014 at 5:50 pm

        ”I don’t know. This sounds more like a fucked-up domestic dispute. Too many critical details are lacking. The photo is taunting, as is the “birds in paradise” text. Sure sounds like the bastard is tormenting his ex”

        I’m not quite sure what you mean, here, Ashley. Are you suggesting it is just a hoax, perpetrated by this Saudi man, to torment his wife, and that he *hasn’t* actually taken the children to Syria, at all ?

        I don’t think the two things are mutually exclusive. We certainly know that ISIS is using children as fighters, and suicide bombers, as is Boko Haram. And there is the horror picture of the little seven year old boy, holding up a severed head.

        Also, if one can bear to watch, there are numerous jihadist videos on youtube, showing children being encouraged to behead prisoners.

        This Saudi man *could* very well be deliberately taunting his ex, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he **hasn’t** taken his children to Syria, with the full intent of pushing them into fighting, or using them as suicide bombers.

        ” The father is not identified. He told his estranged wife he was taking the boys “on a trip to one of the Gulf countries.” Was mom okay with dad taking the boys on a trip following the “dispute?”

        I agree it is odd the man has not been identified, but I don’t think the fact that he hasn’t, necessarily calls into question the truth of the story; as we have seen, ISIS and Boko Haram **do** use children in this way, and this has been well documented.

        As for the mother; well, this is Saudi Arabia. Mothers have little to no legal rights over their children in that hell-hole, and if her ex-husband decided to take the children, there would be nothing she could do about it, certainly nothing legally.

        You may be right, however, that this is just a cruel example of a vicious ex-husband taunting his estranged wife; God knows that would be better than the ghastly actuality of these poor kids being trained as murderers, and forced into fighting.

        • Ashley says

          Aug 11, 2014 at 11:59 pm

          Hi Mirren! 🙂

          No…I’m not suggesting this is a hoax.

          You actually touched upon my issues with the article…the sketchy details that delivered no real details

          And you did a far better job expressing my concerns than I did.

          I don’t think this is a hoax…just shitty reporting. Hard to vet this account without “daddy’s” name in the article.

          I believe this account could very well be true and accurate, but poorly presented. I just don’t understand why the children were named, but not their father.

  7. Watchman says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    Unlike Hamas who use OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN as human shields or as “collateral damage” to air to the world’s media as Kiddie Death Porn, while blaming the Eeesrahehhleeeezzz and the Yahud .

  8. Max says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    Barbaric. But they don’t understand the difference because they are truly
    barbarians. Longing for a time where killing others was though of as an honor not a travesty of the civilized world. There are always those that hate. They justify their existence with any twisted “so called faith” . Hitler was just as inventive. What they don’t realize is the intelligent world knows exactly what they are. Cowards. God Bless Texas you losers. (If you cant make the association, again it due to your IQ….

  9. Beagle says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 4:11 pm

    Sort of puts the whole Gaza “civilian casualties” thing into perspective, no?

  10. SpiritOf1683 says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 5:06 pm

    When it comes to facing Islamists, 10 and 11 year olds are budding combatants and are learning how to fight and be toughened up and ready for combat in a couple of years time. We stupidly confuse these 10 and 11 year olds with Western 10 and 11 year olds, when they’re as different as chalk and cheese. There are no innocent women and children in that neck of the woods. Each has been long-infused with anti-infidel hatred by the time they reach 14 years old and considered as adults at that age, whereas here, we stupidly regard anyone under 20 as a child.

    • Charli Main says

      Aug 12, 2014 at 6:31 am

      Class room lessons for 11/12 year old Jihadi children.
      How to hack infidel heads off
      How to stone women to death
      How to rape infidel women
      How to burn churches
      How to burn all un Islamic books and manuscripts
      How to crucify infidels
      How to eat hacked out infidel hearts and livers

      • keith says

        Aug 12, 2014 at 7:44 am

        You forgot one

        How to wear and detonate the suicide vest

  11. Salah says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 6:34 pm

    ‘..to consider her children “birds in paradise,”’

    He probably means “pearls” in paradise!!!

    “And round about them will (serve) boys of everlasting youth. If you see them, you would think them scattered pearls.” Qur’an 76:19

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/03/grandpa-muhammad.html

  12. Kepha says

    Aug 11, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    We’re in an age in which there is a terrible abuse of minors. One we see here, in a father putting his own preteen sons in mortal danger (he needs a millstone tied around his neck and getting dropped in the nearest large body of water). Another is the “children” (95% teens) appearing on the US’s southern border. What do we make about parents who let their kids cross the Sonoran and Chihuahua Deserts with no adult supervision save for coyotes, who aren’t exactly forgiving towards people who miss a payment? And, finally, it is the consensus of the highest legal and academic experts that, Frank Lombard notwithstanding, homosexual men make just wonderful parents.

    The mention of Turkey, and how the boys would not be considered abducted under Turkish law, makes me wonder all the more about Erdogan’s role in the misery to the south of his country.

    Reading this and the earlier article with a kid being given a severed head to play with has given me an increasingly uncomfortable feeling that, perhaps–and may God forbid that this is so–that there may even now be nations worthy of the annihilation that overcame the Canaanites. But against the use of child fighters by ISIS and its supporters, I tremble as well when I consider the immoral revolution that had been going on in the Western world since the 1960’s.

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