No, I am not kidding about
the headline. No, I am not off my
rocker . . . at least I do not think I am. But, anyway, I read the following about ISIS, and a light
bulb turned on inside my head.
ISIS
leaders select foreign jihadists for suicide missions because they usually
arrive in Syria with little or no battlefield experience and so have no
military value.
According
to one ISIS insider who fled the group, special training camps have been set up
inside Syria which filter out foreigners with no military experience and
prepare them for suicide operations.
A security
source who works with British Muslim communities on combating extremism told
MailOnline that he had been made aware of a number of British fighters who had
been unprepared for the reality of Syria:
'The
problem is that young British Muslims who go over to Syria thinking they will
be treated like equal brothers by IS find out very quickly that they are being
told to strap on suicide vets and prepare for Jannah [heaven]....it's hardly
surprising that they have cold feet about these missions.'
One can imagine. And indeed defections among those
appointed to die are something of a problem for ISIS.
A source from inside Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State in Syria,
told Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently [an anti-ISIS group] that ISIS has set up road blocks and
imposed strict security checks to stop suicide bombers abandoning their
missions.
Summary execution awaits
those who are caught.
I read this and almost
immediately thought – is this not like joining Satan’s brigades?
Satan promises worldly
glory. Indeed, that is exactly
what that fraud offered to Jesus as he fasted in the wilderness. (Matthew 4: 8, 9) He still offers worldly glamour as ISIS
promises the glamour of fighting for a revolutionary cause . . . or is that a
devolutionary cause?
And both Satan and ISIS
promise rewards after this life as well. Satan fools people into thinking Hell
is just a big party with the fun crowd. ISIS fools people into thinking suicide
bombing results in 70 virgins.
Speaking of false advertising,
both Satan and ISIS fool recruits into thinking they will be treated well, like
“brothers.” But once the recruits
are in and enrolled, they are not treated well as all. Their treatment is instead, well,
Hellish. That is how Evil
operates.
And neither Satan nor
ISIS like defectors either and will stop them and kill them if they can.
The armies of evil
attract the foolish with marked success.
But the end results for the fools are not so attractive.
There is a way that seems right to a man,
but
its end is the way to death.
Proverbs
14:12 ESV
Thanks be to God there is
a better army to join. But that
will have to wait for another post.
As long as the Koran is Islam's Holy Book, there will be
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