 Apparently it wasn't exactly like the brochure described.
| Ignominious defeat was not in the plan for the noblest Lions of Islam of all in their version of a peaceful hippy commune. |
[Independent] Lucas Glass had not long finished school when he decided to join Isis. In the summer of 2014, shortly after the terror group declared its global caliphate, he left his home city of Dortmund and set off with his wife to start a new life in Syria. He was just 19 years old.
"All I knew about Isis was that they were establishing Islamic law and fighting Bashar al-Assad," he says, cutting a solemn figure under the watchful eye of his captors at a military installation in northern Syria. "I came to practise my religion. I thought I would find what I wanted here, but actually it was very different."
"At the beginning, when they announced their caliphate, thousands of Muslims came to Syria to support it. But now we know the reality of Isis. They will not find any supporters anymore in the Muslim world. All these things Isis did, and all these crimes, made Muslims all over the world hate Isis. So it will never be able to find any supporters anymore," he says.
"I only joined for the chicks"
"I got cheated. All of us got cheated. All of these foreigners, thousands of Muslims who came to join Isis got cheated."
Cue violins...
| Truly. As the article continues: |
Glass wanted to fight for the group, against the Syrian government, but an injury meant he was unfit for the frontline. Instead, he was assigned to the police force in Aleppo province.
“The main work was manning checkpoints in the streets. I would stop cars and look out for cigarettes and drugs,” he says. “I never pointed my gun at another human,” he insists.
“They all say the same thing,” a Kurdish intelligence official responsible for handling suspected Isis members tells The Independent. “We don’t believe them.” 
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