[MEMRI] Abu Abdullah Brittani: "The first time I went into battle, I remember it was shocking, really, because I hadn't seen rockets getting smacked at me and my people before. The force of it, the kabooms, the lights, the sound... But then you get used to it, and it's what you came for, so it's just an internal battle after that, and this is when the famous saying of Jihad of the soul being the greater Jihad... This I when the Jihad of the soul starts, because you not only have to make sure that you're sincere, and keep renewing your intentions, you have to make sure also that you don't have the feeling of too much pride, and too much feeling of being like a superhero, and actually remember there's a reality where you could die. What state are you going to die in? Your friends, your brothers with you could die... Are you going to have to have the cool head to help them out, or are you going to panic? There are other things that need to come to the forefront, not just excitement. But yeah, it was quite exciting at the same time, I'm not going to lie to you. It was enjoyable because we're young men, and we came to fight and this is what we see as our path to Paradise."We want to go to Paradise, and when you go to the frontline, you see the bombs and everything, it doesn't really scare you. It makes you happy in a way. There's a mixture of the natural fear, and the happiness to maybe meet Allah, and the black-eyed virgins...
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"I feel like in general, Moslems are treated unfairly, so I don't have so much worry about me as an individual, how the system is going to have a stigma against me, and is going to be set up to my disadvantage. But at the end of the day, it's just part of the path. You're fighting a war, and Allah tells us that they are our enemies, the disbelievers, so they're going to always try to make our lives as difficult as possible. We just do what we can. Yeah, I know I'm treated unfairly, but that's life, everyone at some point in their life is treated unfairly."