'WE'RE JUST DOING WHAT GOD TOLD US TO DO': CONFRONTING ISIS FACE-TO-FACE
The terror group
Islamic State is luring Philippines’ locals to join its extremist mission with
the promise of money and weapons, a 60 Minutes report has found.
ISIS recruits in the
southern Philippines are earning a monthly wage when they join the ranks of
Islamic State, with new followers telling 60 Minutes hundreds of disillusioned
men are now pledging their allegiance to the terror organisation. Despite the
Philippines military regaining control of Marawi city – ISIS' former stronghold
in East Asia – the threat of Islamic State still looms large and is frighteningly
close to Australia.
60 Minutes reporter
Liam Bartlett came face-to-face with ISIS recruits in the Philippines who say
they will stop at nothing to fulfil the pledge they’ve made to Islamic State.
“We will kill the
people who’s going to kill us,” ISIS recruit ‘Sadam’ told Bartlett in the
shocking interview.
“We’re just doing what
God told us to do.”
Sadam says he was just
21 years old when foreign fighters offered him money and weapons to join their
extremist group in the southern Philippines city of Marawi.
“They give
us money, guns. Then every month, they give us income,” he said.
The promise of a monthly wage is an
attractive prospect for many young men living in poverty in the Philippines.
But for Sadam it’s no longer just about
money.
The 24-year-old now lives and breathes
Islamic State’s sickening ideology and says foreign fighters have trained him
in warfare against non-believers.
“ISIS is telling the God’s order and
that’s definitely what will make us go to paradise,” he told Bartlett.
Sumber: 9News – 21 Julai
2019
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