[ALMASDARNEWS] Dutch citizen Yakhoci Riedijk of Arnhem had been working as a blacksmith when he made the decision to leave his home and join 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....
(IS; formerly ISIS/ISIS), a decision he would later come to "regret."
In an exclusive interview filmed for Ruptly at an SDF camp for IS members near Qamishli in Syria’s Jazira region on Monday, Riedijk recounted how he stumbled upon IS ideology on the internet and reached out to turbans through Twitter.
"I said I wanted to go to Syria."
He wrote to someone called Abu Yusef al-Holandi, who then gave him the number of a smuggler who took him into Syria in 2014.
He sat inside the smuggler’s van alongside men from Indonesia and Bosnia.
"We were taken to the borders, from the borders we were told to walk on foot," recalled Riedijk.
After having joined the Caliphate, Riedijk married. Ten days later, IS authorities charged him with espionage for the Dutch government, imprisoned him and tortured him.
"I was set free after seven and half months, my body was in very bad condition," recounted Riedijk. He was then assigned to the second brigade.
"I wish to return home, spend the due time in jail, then go back to normal life with my wife, with no troubles, no wars and no poverty," said Riedijk as he tried not to sleep.
"I feel regret, I want to go back to my normal life and improve myself, I would never go back to such error."