[ALMASDARNEWS] The so-called "Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) seems to suffer from serious lack of manpower in Syrian Deir Ezzor governorate. The infamous terrorist group has been more and more active in recruiting child fighters recently.
One of the Syrian opposition’s media outlets, DeirEzzor24, did an interview with a 13-years-old child named Ahmed Sahleh Hassan from a town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor who had been recruited into ISIS ranks before being sent back to his family recently.
He tells his story by saying the following: "On Sunday, December 21, 2016, there was a Sharia session held in a mosque in the town for the children whose ages ranged from 9 to 16 years. I was among 25 other children and all of us attended those sessions regularly. During them, ’Sheikh Abu Obaidah’, who was a ISIS [ISIS] affiliate from the Gulf, would give us lessons on Sharia, from the end of the Maghreb prayer to the Ishaa. The lessons were about pillars of Islam, faith and stories of the followers of the prophet. He was always keen on encouraging us to perform jihad and anything related to fighting and to show enmity towards anyone not holding the same ideology.
Every week, two ISIS members from the Media Department would come to the mosque, where we were undergoing the sessions, and broadcast footage of ISIS battles in Syria and Iraq."
He adds, "I watched three ISIS video releases in that mosque. One day, after a video about the battle in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
ended, Sheikh Abu Obaidah said, ’Who wants to pledge his allegiance to the organization and undergo a Sharia session and military training for 50 days?".
The child says, "I raised my hand, along with more than 30 children. At 8.00 PM we were transported by car to a ISIS headquarters in the town. In the early morning, we were sent to their headquarters in al-Bukamal in eastern Deir Ezzor, where we met more than 100 children and we were separated into different groups, each of which consisted of five. Then, each group was sheltered in a separate room in that headquarters which consisted of three floors and many rooms.
A daily schedule was distributed to us. It consisted of three daily lessons which started after the dawn prayer (memorization lesson), Duhr prayer (Monotheism lessons), Maghreb prayer (creed and fiqh issues) and then we would sleep after the Ishaa prayer.
We were divided into groups, each of which consisted of 30 children. We were supervised by Sheikh Abu Baraa Tunissi, and four other members in charge of controlling and managing our rooms. With respects to food, there was a kitchen from which food was distributed to all of us. Each of us would go to the kitchen with an issued card to obtain food.
There was also a big park where we would go to in the afternoon. We were not allowed to leave the headquarter for any reasons, even if some of us felt sick ‐ they would bring a doctor to treat him. We were also barred from communicating with our parents or asking about the location of the headquarters. Also, we were not permitted to speak loudly and the violators would be flogged.