“He describes how he, after his release in a prisoner’s exchange, fled to Germany and, once in Europe in 2016, looked around in bewilderment: he met former Syrian IS members who still preach violent jihad. ‘A man who proudly told me in a prison that he had given the IS coordinates for a particular attack, I found back in Europe as an imam, spreading his message.'”
European authorities have thus far been completely indifferent to this phenomenon. That indifference could be Europe’s death knell.
“Ex-prisoner: ‘Pay attention, Europe! IS is everywhere,'” translated from “Ex-gevangene: ‘Let op, Europa! IS is overal,'” by Cyril Rosman, AD, February 26, 2018 (thanks to VH):
He survived prisons of IS: almost a year full of daily torture. Once in safety in Germany, Masoud Aqil was stunned that he again encountered IS people. “Europe must not be naïve.”
The appointment for the interview actually stood for a month ago. Aqil told him at the last minute: “I was depressed, I lost hope.” He was upset about the blazing violence in northern Syria, where the Turkish army started an attack on the Kurds in the Afrin region.
“We have defeated IS together with the West and thought it would be over. But then came the attack on Afrin … Turkey attacks us, along with radical Islamic groups. Our allies now let us down. A new IS will soon emerge from this attack.”
Menace
A new IS. It is a menace for Aqil (24 years) from the Kurdish city of Qamislo in northern Syria. It is December 2014 when the journalist falls in their hands. Aqil, together with his colleague, is on his way to an interview when they meet an unexpected roadblock along the way. The masked and armed men turned out to be jihadists. They kidnap the two journalists and take them into the caliphate territory for a year of horrific torture.
“They tied my hands with a piece of rope on my back and hoisted me up on that rope until my feet came off the ground. The rope cuts deep into my wrists, my hands become numb and the pain in my shoulders is so intense that I am afraid my arms break. Questions, accusations, scoldings and punches alternate. My eyes are in my eyes, and I hope that I do not lose consciousness. The only thing I can still think of is when my feet will hit the ground again and the torture and pain end,” Aqil writes in his book, published in the Netherlands, The Boy Who Is Fighting the IS.
Aqil spends 280 days in IS prisons, including in Raqqa, the capital of the caliphate. In miserable conditions, with daily humiliations. Guarded by jihadists from all parts of the world, who perform mock and real executions with a smile on their face.
Book
Why is he held by IS? Because he is a Kurd, and a journalist and simply because IS has the power to do what it wants. In that prison he promises himself: if I ever get out of this, I will fight IS.
Now Masoud Aqil is in a hotel in Amsterdam. He is paying a short visit to the Netherlands to promote his book. A book in which he describes how he, after his release in a prisoner’s exchange, fled to Germany and, once in Europe in 2016, looked around in bewilderment: he met former Syrian IS members who still preach violent jihad. “A man who proudly told me in a prison that he had given the IS coordinates for a particular attack, I found back in Europe as an imam, spreading his message.”
He sees it as his chance to fight against his former torturers. Aqil tracks IS sympathizers who pretend to be refugees in Europe via social media and hands them over to the German police. Only a few are arrested for questioning. “It is baffling that so many individuals that pose a risk, still roam freely throughout Europe.” Aqil thought of freedom to flee, but he still does not feel safe, he writes, and now he does not want to disclose where he currently lives and works.
Are you still searching for IS sympathizers in Europe on social media?
“No, not anymore. After their capital Raqqa was recaptured, they became silent on social media. They no longer associate themselves with IS. But of course there are IS refugees in Europe. The Turkish president Erdogan has given them passage on purpose, he wanted radicals to escape to Europe. It is his weapon to exert influence on Europe.”
Many European IS people are stuck in the Kurdish region in Syria. The women and children in camps, the men in prisons. What should happen to them?
“I find that very difficult. We, the Kurds, want to get rid of them, we do not accept those people. Let Europe take responsibility and try them here. But I also understand the problem: those people now say that they are grateful if they can return, but if we believe that we are naïve. They are IS criminals. And how does it feel if you live here next to someone who has been with IS? That could also happen to me…”
You write in your book that Europe must be vigilant for radical Islam, to which you include salafists. The mayor of Amsterdam, Jozias van Aartsen, said last week that he wants to reach out to salafist youngsters in the city. How do you view that?
“Reach out to them? How? Salafists see us as infidels. They obey not the law, but the Sharia. Let them become moderate before we reach out to them. Countries such as Saudi Arabia are trying here to spread these radical thoughts, to stimulate them, by giving money to such mosques. Europe must be careful!”
CRUSADER says
EVERYWHERE !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-SVGgi5prk
Cheer Bear Girl says
Western nations must take heed of this man’s warnings. The Quran is manual for conquest. Most people who defend Islam have never read the Quran or Hadiths.
J D S says
Right Cheer…..You are right I am right and this former prisoner of ISIS is right…no we are wrong the LEFT is RIGHT…what she farce they hsve made of their countries.
MFritz says
“Interesting times” are upon us. Unfortunately, the Chinese always meant this as a curse.
CRUSADER says
Carnac the Magnificent’s predictions ~
(Johnny Carson as the mystical Carnac ) used to wish us all to “live in interesting times”!
and also curse us: “May you fall asleep under a camel with post-nasal drip….”
and “May your only son be caught in a gay swine stampede!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m_dT0wsrGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFQFf_Vb0Hw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wzA2A2T1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJVhIPyNCg
mortimer says
Masoud Aqil is saying what I have observed for many years. THERE ARE MANY JIHADISTS STRUTTING AROUND WESTERN CITIES IN FULL VIEW.
Only fools cannot see all the jihadists. Thousands of them!
Walter Sieruk says
Those jihadists /Muslims with their insidious Islamic scheming for the Islamic, subtle and not so subtle, conquest of Europe by every possible means, including the stealth and violent jihad which is, indeed, awful.
As explained by William Wagner in his book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD .Which informs the reader n page 195 “Of all the continents of the world, Europe is probably the number one target by Muslim strategist who are seeking world dominance.”
Therefore, the Europeans would be wise to be on guard.
CRUSADER says
Walter Sieruk …et al ~
Thanks for that reference.
Here is more on it, regarding
Dr. William Wagner:
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https://vimeo.com/ondemand/122432
Genres: Instructional
Duration: 8 hours 30 minutes
Availability: Worldwide
Mission Muslim World University Video Course #20 (MMWU.ORG)
“Clash of Civilizations”…
Dr. William Wagner
SESSIONS IN THIS COURSE – 8 Hours of Video Teaching
SESSION 1 Islam’s Plans to Change the World
SESSION 2 Islam’s Plans to Change the World through Dawa
SESSION 3 Islam’s Plans to Change the World through Jihad
SESSION 4 Islam’s Plans to Change the World through the Mosque
SESSION 5 Truth and Fear in Islam
SESSION 6 Power Encounters with Islam
SESSION 7 Intimidation and Persucution in Islam
SESSION 8 Islam’s Global Paradigm Shift
SESSION 9 Eschatology and Evangelism in Islam
* Islam’s Plans to Change the World *
In this 8 hour course, Prof. William Wagner presents his study regarding the growth of Islam in modern times. His study, which resulted in a book with the same title, presents the reality that Islam has more plans than to just win people to their religion. Join Prof. Wagner on a discussion to consider what we as Christians can do to understand and change these plans.
Professor William Wagner
Prof. William Wagner is currently the Co-President of the Zinzendorf School of Doctoral Studies at Olivet University in San Francisco, CA. Previously he has served as a professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as possitions of leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention including that of Vice President. Before serving in these positions of leadership, he served as a missionary for more that thirty years with the International Mission Board of the SBC. During that time he chaired the Muslim Awareness Committee of the European Baptist Federation. The has a Masters of Divinity from Southern Baptist Seminary, a Th.D. from the University of South Africa and a Doctor of Missiology from Fuller Theological Seminary.
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CRUSADER says
By the way, the video does work…
Just look up the course on Vimeo…
Best of luck learning more and more about this important topic on the how the ancient world affects the modern world.
Lebel says
Completely contradicted by ISIS who sought to build a caliphate in the Middle East. Or by AQ who seeks to overthrow Muslim governments.
There’s so much nonsense being written now by “Islam experts” trying to make a quick buck off of people’s’ fears.
gravenimage says
How many times have we heard *this* claptrap–that Jihad cannot possibly have anything to do with Islam, because Jihadists kill other Muslims.
But there is nothing more Islamic than this–there is even an Islamic doctrine–Takfir–where other Muslims are declared essentially un-Islamic and so can be murdered, just as though they were Infidels.
Of course, Lebel knows this–he just really, really hopes that we don’t.
LeftisruiningCanada says
But was it not this same isis that set about sneaking it’s guys into Europe for the purpose of jihad?
It seems that they are certainly interested in Europe. If they hadn’t been broken in Syria, it would simply have been a base from which to wage war against the West.
Eric jones says
Those who enable Islamist simply will not accept the fact that Islamist have a completely different set of motivations. The enablers are trying to give them jobs, housing, education and access to recreation. A normal person would gracefully accept these benefits and act like a model citizen. The Islamist takes these benefits and uses them to live by Sharia, and maneuver you into a position where they imitate the repugnant acts of Mohammad upon you. The enabler is thinking like a human, the Islamist is thinking like a shark.
The only thing I have encountered similar to this is when I was working with some people that have done hard prison time. There is no reaching then until they themselves are ready to change.
Eric
Lydia Church says
“Europe must not be naive. The Islamic State is everywhere”
Yeah, thanks to ‘open door’ bad immigration policies!!!
Mockingjay says
It’s no use.
Europe wiil stay “naïve” until it has allowed the sacrifice of many, many, many more of its children.
gravenimage says
Ex-prisoner of ISIS: “Europe must not be naive. The Islamic State is everywhere”
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Glad to see he is warning Europe–grim that he has to.
FYI says
So are diseases and rats….but steps can be taken…
Politicianophobia says
Justine Trudeau has just appointed John Norris to the Federal court. John Norris, Omar Khadr’s lawyer, the same John Norris who defended some of the Toronto 18 and other terrorists. Day is done, gone the sun………