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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 ISISs 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 doesnt 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 werent meant to instill fear, but rather, he said, to tell the truth about ISIS, that they dont 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
(65,616 posts)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
(23,946 posts)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
(15,741 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
Rex
(65,616 posts)jus saying.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)get the red out
(13,460 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I feel sorry for this guy, hope he gets some help.
And I hope snipers turn ISIS's leaders' skulls inside-out.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)ISIS has NOTHING to do with Islam.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)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
(42,736 posts)Can anyone get any more fugged up than that?
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)Islam is a religion of peace.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218114341
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)JI7
(89,239 posts)Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)of course they are believers in peace.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Not
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)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.