Young Ex-ISIS Hostage Shocks CNN Reporter, Family: ‘They Are Right’

[grahamhgreen]

CNN correspondent Arwa Damon, in an interview with a young Syrian Kurd who was kidnapped by ISIS militants four months ago on his way back from school, was shocked when the boy seemed to sympathize with ISIS’s cause.

Merwan Mohammed Hussein told Damon he was “terrified” when ISIS first captured him and his fellow classmates. The militants took the children to a mosque to pray, and held them in a prison-like “primary school” where they would beat, electrocute, and even hang the hostages. They were “entrenched in ISIS’s version of Islam,” Damon said.

Hussein, who told Damon he feared he was going to be killed, said he came to the realization that ISIS doesn’t indiscriminately kill, but rather determines whether the person is an “infidel” beforehand.

The children were also forced to watch ISIS-produced videos of beheadings. Hussein said the videos weren’t meant to “instill fear,” but rather, he said, to tell the “truth” about ISIS, that they “don’t just grab a random person off the street and execute him without evidence — only if they are infidels.”

Asked what he thinks of ISIS, Hussein shocked Damon, his mother and his sister when he said “they are right.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/young-ex-isis-hostage-shocks-cnn-reporter-family-they-are-right/

[Rex]

1. Torture can do that to a person, something to remember.

Torture can change a persons brain chemistry. That is why Bush and Cheney should be in prison, they approved of torture...Rummy even sat in on some 'sessions'.

The young man has been effectively brainwashed via torture.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Absolutely....and what torture was the young man subject to or even remember? As an aside, using

ex-prisoners for an interview where you do not already know the answers to the questions already, not even knowing where the sympathies lay, is just poor journalism or a set up for shock value,.....just saying.

[grahamhgreen]

4. Did you really just say that?

[Bluenorthwest]

6. What? You think interviews should be preset material? What?

nt

[Rex]

8. "...beat, electrocute, and even hang the hostages."

jus saying.

[KamaAina]

3. Stockholm syndrome

[get the red out]

9. Absolutely

[backscatter712]

10. Indeed.

I feel sorry for this guy, hope he gets some help.

And I hope snipers turn ISIS's leaders' skulls inside-out.

[Rhinodawg]

12. Of course, as has been said..

ISIS has NOTHING to do with Islam.

[backscatter712]

16. Islam and Christianity have the same problem:

They'll let any asshole join up and call themselves members. So much for no true Christians, no true Muslims, or no true Scotsmen.

Though I would argue that the only reason Islam is "worse" than Christianity when it comes to violent and nasty behavior is because Islam's ended up in places in the world hit with lots of poverty, lack of education, the Resource Curse (in this case, the resource is oil), so there's a lot of repressed, desperate people, who turn to religion and go apeshit.

Look at Uganda to see Christians doing the same damned thing.

Hell, if the U.S. gets hit by the second Great Depression (and we almost did) and we end up with more millions of people stuck in poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and so on, yeah, I think that the level of religious batshit in the country will skyrocket. Mostly Christian religious batshit, simply because it's the predominant religion here.

[lpbk2713]

5. Slaughter in the name of religion.

Can anyone get any more fugged up than that?

[Rhinodawg]

13. As been said before,

Islam is a religion of peace.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218114341

[Comrade Grumpy]

17. Stop it. Or take it to a Pam Geller forum.

[JI7]

7. how old is he ?

[Rhinodawg]

11. I hate "INFIDELS"

of course they are believers in peace.

[Fred Sanders]

14. Westborro Church is an abomination of Christianity, as ISIS is an abomination of ___________.?

Not

[Rhinodawg]

15. Westboro is an abomination, yes sir.

But Westboro hasn't sold women into slavery, beheaded infidels, hung GLBT and murdered hundreds ( thousands?) non-believers.

Being super annoying is one thing...ISIS is in a league of depravity all it's own.