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Islamic State teen jihadi: “This is jihad that all of us must do”

Nov 12, 2014 2:49 pm By Robert Spencer

His father told him that the Islamic State was wrong, but how did he get the idea that they were right in the first place? Why was whatever training he had in Islam before he met the Islamic State recruiter not sufficient to withstand the recruiter’s Islamic appeal?

“Former teen ISIS soldier: ‘Jihad that all of us must do,'” CNN, November 12, 2014:

(CNN) – ISIS has posted videos and pictures on the internet bragging about its so-called “cubs of the Islamic State.”

While there are no firm numbers on how many children are part of the extremist group, the U.N. said there are confirmed reports of children as young as 12 undergoing military training.

“Yasir,” a 15-year-old former ISIS soldier, described being strapped in an explosive belt on a daily basis and being issued a pistol and an AK-47.

“The belt has fertilizer, explosives, TNT, and it’s pre-packed with shrapnel, and it has a detonator cord on the side,” he said.

Yasir joined the group willingly – both he and his father were with the al Qaeda linked Nusra front and when ISIS took over their area, they swore allegiance. He said said he and another 100 child recruits were isolated from their families for a month, forbidden from seeing or even speaking to them.

They underwent intense religious indoctrination. ISIS embedded their young minds with the radical and violent interpretation of Islam, as well as rigorous, terrifying military training.

“We used to crawl under webbing, there was fire above it, and we would be firing our weapons,” Yasir said. “We would jump through large metal rings as the trainers would be firing at our feet and telling us if you stop you will be shot.”

With his training complete, he was assigned guard duty. His mother begged him to leave.

“I would tell her, ‘This is jihad that all of us must do,'” he said.

Two weeks ago, Yasir’s father decided to defect and tricked his son into coming with him, bringing him to Turkey.

“I was asking him, why are you doing this, what happened?” he said. “My father turned to me and said, ‘They are not on the right religious track.'”…

It would have been helpful for CNN to have explained how. No such luck.

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 4:05 pm

    “radical and violent interpretation of Islam”?
    Red herring. Kill means kill.

  2. Champ says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    “I was asking him, why are you doing this, what happened?” he said. “My father turned to me and said, ‘They are not on the right religious track.’”…

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Ya think! …of course they are “not on the right religious track”; this holds true for *any* muslim following islam.

  3. jewdog says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    They were indoctrinated with a radical and violent interpretation of Islam. Does radical here mean inaccurate, or does it mean accurate but vehement? For example, if I have a sacred text that clearly states that red-headed people should be killed, and I kill a red-headed person, am I being radical, or am I merely being emphatic and accurately following the dictates of my faith?
    If these killers are accurately following Islam then they are not radicals and we need to stop using that term since I think that it amounts to an apologetic for evil.

    • john spielman says

      Nov 12, 2014 at 4:40 pm

      violence in islam is the result of its works righteous theology where by a muslim must EARN paradise and since a faithful muslim has no idea whether he/she has gained enough good deeds to off set their bad deeds, death during jihad is the ONLY way to bypass this good deed/ bad deed book keeping requirement and go staight to paradise (which is nothing but a foul drunken brothel in he sky- but that’s another story)

  4. Ayatrollah says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    “I was asking him, why are you doing this, what happened?” he said. “My father turned to me and said, ‘They are not on the right religious track.’”…

    Most of the reports I see never show exactly how this is true. They seem to take it as a given.

  5. Salah says

    Nov 12, 2014 at 11:44 pm

    ” Just get on with life and stop trying to influence others with your bullshit.”

    The best way to exonerate Islam is to put ALL religions in the same basket.
    That’s mean, to say the least.
    Islam is evil because its founder (the Perfect Man of Islam) was an evil man. Can you say the same about other religions?

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

  6. Gail Griffin says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 1:11 am

    This is so cute. And I love the mums tea towel . No independent thinking here. As sheep say ‘Baaaaa’

  7. KiwiKaffir says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 1:57 am

    Deport every one of them that can’t swear allegiance. We need to be ruthless or we will lose. We are at war even though our leaders can’t see it!

  8. Crixus says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 4:19 am

    “give me a child at an impressionable age and he’s mine for life”
    -Ignatious Loyola and then paraphrased by Mussolini.

    When I was 15 I knew shit. One minute I was a commie, the next a facsist.

    Am I alone in seeing that the big danger is not that a 15 year old had become a Jihadi but that ISIS is conditioning children. THIS is the big danger of the Islamification, not the old farts, it’s the impressionable youths who’s brains are not yet developed enough being prey to hateful bullshit and Islam is an ideal vehicle as our ex-Muslim friends tell us.

    I was reading an article last week about what life is like in Syria for your average Joe. If you are in an ISIS controlled area and are under 20 and a muslim there is huge pressure to join up, schools have been forbidden from teaching anything but religious instruction, last week there was a very brave class who with their two teachers, (forced to wear full veils), protested against ISIS in an ISIS area for taking away their education. These kids were under 12. The big brave ISIS boys didn’t do anything and eventually the kids and their teachers disperesed. Obviously they couldn’t identify the teachers (didn;t think ahout that did they?). I wonder how many of them, especially the galmour boys from the West, were shamed by this.

    This particular scenario has worked out well for this lad and his father. This sort of story needs to be shared.

    We are only going to win this war by winning people over to our side.

    It is imperative that the western countries root out radical islam at schools and colleges and any preacher, relative or parent caught spouting this crap to a minor should be arrested and jaled for child abuse which is effectively what it is.

  9. shabeer_hassan says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 6:01 am

    @His father told him that the Islamic State was wrong, but how did he get the idea that they were right in the first place?…….

    PRIME RESPONSIBILITY OF A SON;

    Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 93 :: Hadith 625
    Narrated Ibn Mas’ud:

    A man asked the Prophet “What deeds are the best?” The Prophet said: (1) To perform the (daily compulsory) prayers at their (early) stated fixed times, (2) To be good and dutiful to one’s own parents.(ACCORDING TO SPENCER COMMENTS HE BROKEN PARENTS COMMENTS,THEN HOW CAN HE IS TO BE A MUSLIM?? & SUITABLE TO RULE 3) (3) and to participate in Jihad in Allah’s Cause.”

    Parents’ permission required for jihad:
    Dawud :: Book 14 : Hadith 2524

    Narrated AbuSa’id al-Khudri:

    A man emigrated to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) from the Yemen. He asked (him): Have you anyone (of your relatives) in the Yemen? He replied: My parents. He asked: Did they permit you? He replied: No. He said: Go back to them and ask for their permission. ””””””’If they permit you, then fight (in the path of Allah), otherwise be devoted to them””””””’.

    HOW CAN HE IS TO BE A MUSLIM??

    I AM EXPECTING SPENCER RESPONSE…..

  10. shabeer_hassan says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 6:12 am

    MY ADVICE TO BOTH MUSLIM/NON MUSLIM;

    DO THE FOLLOWING DUTY THAT BETTER THAN JIHAD
    To believe in Allah and His Apostle best jihad:
    Bukhari :: Book 2 :: Volume 26 :: Hadith 594
    Justice is best jihad:
    Dawud :: Book 37 : Hadith 4330
    care parents better than jihad
    Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 52 :: Hadith 41,248
    Bukhari :: Book 8 :: Volume 73 :: Hadith 1 ,3
    Bukhari :: Book 1 :: Volume 10 :: Hadith 505
    Muslim :: Book 32 : Hadith 6184,6186
    Muslim :: Book 1 : Hadith 151 ,152,153
    Dawud :: Book 14 : Hadith 2522
    Jihad with Quran:
    25: 52. So obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them (by preaching) with the utmost Endeavour, with it (the Qur’ân).
    3: 195. So their Lord accepted of them (their supplication and answered them), “Never will I allow to be lost the work of any of you, be the male or female. You are (members) one of another, so those who emigrated and were driven out from their homes, and suffered harm in My Cause, and who fought, and were killed (in My Cause), verily, I will remit from them their evil deeds and admit them into Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise); a reward from Allah, and with Allah is the best of rewards.”
    Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 52 :: Hadith 45
    Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
    Somebody asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! Who is the best among the people?” Allah’s Apostle replied “A believer who strives his utmost in Allah’s Cause with his life and property.” They asked, “Who is next?” He replied, “A believer who stays in one of the mountain paths worshipping Allah and leaving the people secure from his mischief.”
    Learning /teaching good manners /virtue like a jihad:
    Malik :: Book 9 : Hadith 9.18.56
    Collecting money for charity equal to jihad:
    Dawud :: Book 19 : Hadith 2930
    The best Jihad (for women) is Hajj
    Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 52 :: Hadith 43
    Bukhari :: Book 3 :: Volume 29 :: Hadith 84
    Looking widow and for a poor is like jihad:
    Bukhari :: Book 8 :: Volume 73 :: Hadith 35 , 36
    Hajj better than jihad:
    Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 52 :: Hadith 43, 127 ,128,250, 295
    Bukhari :: Book 2 :: Volume 26 :: Hadith 595
    Dawud :: Book 10 : Hadith 1795
    Good deed [dul haj 10 day] better than jihad
    Bukhari :: Book 2 :: Volume 15 :: Hadith 86
    Positive dawa better than jihad:
    Bukhari 4.52.192
    Best jihad is talking/doing for justice/good:
    Dawud :: Book 37 : Hadith 4330
    Malik :: Book 9 : Hadith 9.18.56
    Serving wife part of jihad:
    Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 53 :: Hadith 359

  11. Robert says

    Nov 13, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    At least in Christianity we know that good deeds will not get us to heaven. That our Lord Jesus Christ paid for all our iniquities. Although we must do good deeds, God will not have anyone in heaven bragging about how good he/she was. Christ removed this by His death on the cross.

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