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Raymond Ibrahim: Why the Islamic State’s Ancient Jihadi Tactics “Shock” the West

Feb 26, 2016 7:44 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Islamic State beheading Kurds

As Western politicians and other talking heads insist that the Islamic State (“ISIS”) has “nothing whatsoever to do with Islam,” not only does ISIS correctly implement Islamic law—whether by demanding jizya from subjugated Christians or by sexually enslaving “infidel” women—but even the “caliphate’s” arcane jihadi tactics belong to Islam.

Consider a recently exposed “recruitment” tactic of ISIS: abducting, indoctrinating, and beating young children in order to mold them into explosive-vest wearing “martyrs” who hurl themselves onto “infidels”:

The children who managed to escape describe how they were indoctrinated into the jihadi group’s radical brand of Islam and taught that they should execute their “unbeliever” [infidel] parents….  “We weren’t allowed to cry but I would think about my mother, think about her worrying about me and I’d try and cry quietly,” he [an escapee] said…  Some children who managed to escape ISIS and are now living in the refugee camps in northern Iraq, have also been left badly psychologically scarred. The repeated beatings and endless propaganda have meant that some of the escapees wake up in the night with nightmares while others suffer seizures.

The report goes on to say that “The growing trend for ISIS to use child soldiers as suicide bombers, particularly in Iraq, has been suggested as a sign of how stretched their resources are in the region.”

Or it could suggest that ISIS is simply following another page of the jihadi playbook.  For centuries, Muslim caliphates seized Christian boys from their families, forcefully converted and indoctrinated them in Islam, trained them to be jihadis extraordinaire, and then unleashed them back onto their former Christian kin to wreak havoc in the name of jihad.  (Skanderberg was the exception.)

That this practice is Islamic is evident in that other modern day Muslims—not just ISIS—follow it.  In 2012, 300 Christian children were abducted and forcibly converted to Islam.  After convincing impoverished Christian families in Bangladesh to spend what little money they had to send their children to study at supposed mission hostels, conmen would “pocket the money” and “sell the children to Islamic schools elsewhere in the country ‘where imams force them to abjure Christianity.’”  The children are then instructed in Islam and beaten. After being fully indoctrinated, the once Christian children are asked if they are “ready to give their lives for Islam,” presumably by becoming jihadi suicide-bombers.

The West would not be oblivious to this “new” Muslim tactic—erroneously concluding that it means ISIS has “stretched their resources”—if it had Islamic studies departments that disseminated facts instead of pro-Islamic myths and propaganda.   As with all unsavory aspects of Islamic history, this institution has been whitewashed.  Although young, terrified boys were seized from the clutches of their devastated parents, the mainstream (but otherwise debunked) narrative is that poor Christian families were eager to see their boys taken to the caliphate where they would have a “bright future.”

Portraying uniquely negative aspects of Islamic doctrine and history as uniquely positive aspects is par for the course.  For example, the Islamic institution of jizya—extorting money from subjugated Christians and Jews often on pain of death—is presented by academics such as Georgetown University’s John Esposito as a show of “tolerance” (debunked here).

Because Western knowledge of Islam has been subverted by the “scholars”—especially thosefunded by petrodollars—ISIS and other Muslims are free to practice any number of distinctly Islamic tactics that appear “novel” to the West.

According to a manual distributed by ISIS, would-be jihadi mass murderers in the West areurged “to blend in with the western way of life and to avoid ‘looking like a Muslim’ so as to stay below the radar of the security services….  Readers are urged to wear a Christian cross, splash on the aftershave, cut off beards and even shun prayer meetings and mosques to avoid detection.”  The manual says:

It is permissible for you to wear a necklace showing a Christian cross.  As you know, Christians—or even atheist Westerners with Christian background—wear crosses on their necklaces.  But don’t wear a cross necklace if you have a Muslim name on your passport, as that may look strange.

Considering Islam’s well known enmity for the Christian cross, the depth of deception here should be clear.

While the UK’s Express repeatedly refers to the strategic deception outlined above as “chilling,” it’ actually standard.  Not only did the 9/11 terrorists and many others follow these tactics, but Muslims have been pretending to blend in with those infidels they plan to murder from the start…. Keep reading 

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  1. grace says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 8:00 am

    FB doesn’t allow freedom of speech regarding islam so I always share jihad watch news on seen.life instead.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 8:30 am

    “The children who managed to escape

    The repeated beatings and endless propaganda have meant that some of the escapees wake up in the night with nightmares while others suffer seizures.”
    ————————————————————————————————————————-

    Meanwhile the smug callous indifference of Western ‘moderate’ Muslims to the unpleasant realities of their twisted ideology is enough to turn any decent person’s stomach.

    (Strike a pose Muslims at prayer) really don’t care about this as long as ISIS supports the Caliphate and Islam’s hate.

    • Angemon says

      Feb 26, 2016 at 11:51 am

      I’m sure you know the usual response by now, JB: non-muslims somewhere have also beaten children sometime, therefore stating that what ISIS is doing is islamic and on par with islamic history is islamophobia”.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 8:55 am

    Raymond Ibrahim writes: “not only does ISIS correctly implement Islamic law—”

    In fact, ISIS METICULOUSLY, SCRUPULOUSLY and METHODICALLY implements Islamic law.

    The only point upon which other Muslims disagree is their use of ‘takfir’ (the excommunication of lax Muslims). If ISIS could find a way to improve their use of ‘takfir’, then they would be the perfect, ideal and compleat Muslims.

    • Shane says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 10:40 am

      Yes, I hope everybody spreads this column around as every American should know the true nature of the enemy. the traitorous left accuses anyone who tells the truth about our Islamic jihadi enemy as being racist or Islamophobic. It is not phobic to fear Islamic jihad terrorism if you are a non-Muslim.

  4. Sam says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 9:06 am

    As you know this why Islam spread to Coptic Christians forcing them to convert from Christianity to Islam throughout the past during the previous caliphates in Egypt. Sadly some aren’t even aware or knowing why there ancestors embraced Islam which was because of persecution from Islamic ruling.

    • Tim says

      Feb 26, 2016 at 9:19 am

      This was like in the UK changing from Catholicism to Protestantism long time ago if you don’t I will cut your head off, that’s what rulers did in the UK.

      • JIMJFOX says

        Feb 27, 2016 at 9:23 am

        Tim the Wanker

    • Paul says

      Feb 26, 2016 at 9:20 am

      This was like in the UK changing from Catholicism to Protestantism long time ago if you don’t I will cut your head off, that’s what rulers did in the UK.

  5. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 9:11 am

    “It is permissible for you to wear a necklace showing a Christian cross. As you know, Christians—or even atheist Westerners with Christian background—wear crosses on their necklaces. But don’t wear a cross necklace if you have a Muslim name on your passport, as that may look strange.”
    Example of stealth somnojihad:

    • JIMJFOX says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 9:21 am

      Go choke yourself with your pillow…

    • Avenger says

      Feb 27, 2016 at 12:39 pm

      It can also be used as a super-absorbent maxi pad under the burka, washable too.

  6. atheistkufar says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 9:29 am

    War is deception

  7. celticwarriorcanada says

    Feb 26, 2016 at 11:43 am

    So then according to the left, Mohammad and his first gang of murdering rapist thugs; were not REAL muslims ! The Ottoman Turks were not REAL muslims and when they brutally RAPED and CRUCIFED hundreds of Christian Women in 1915 they were not Following true islam ( and it wasn’t a Genocide) ! Oh I get it ! The true muslims are Little Lying Weasels like the islamic Apologist at Georgetown University ! People who Strive to DECEPTVELY Convince Enslaved Oppressed, people that their Masters have their best interest at heart , and that the victims Need to view the Brutality and Oppression in a more POSITIVE LIGHT . THINK WE ALL HEARD THIS NARRATIVE BEFORE ! A FEW TIMES !!!

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    Those terrible vicious, malice–filled and murderous evils committed by those jihadists of ISIS against those Christians, in the above picture and article, exposes the real ,actual fruits of Islam. For ISIS has as its foundation the Koran. Since ISIS is based on the Koran which does indeed, teaches the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As seen in 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. So as just stated above, such deadly violence are the fruits of Islam. Jesus in His Wisdom taught “”By their fruits you will recognize them.” Matthew 7:20. The above picture is also a reminder of what the Bible teaches in Proverbs 29:10. Which reads “Bloodthirsty men hate a man of integrity and seeks to kill the upright.”
    [N.I.V.]

  9. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 5:28 pm

    Western “leaders” and the enemedia only pretend to be “shocked” by this, because their globalist oil-bankster sales-masters and owners tell them to always pretend to be shocked, no matter what occurs.

    This vile nonsense is being done to us deliberately, so they can create an eternal crisis to bilk us with.

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