A German ISIS fighter claimed in an
interview that it’s only a matter of time before the jihadists expand and
conquer Europe. He also defended the
terror group’s practices of mass enslavement and beheadings, and said that it
plans to carry out “the largest religious cleansing campaign” in history, which
will include the killing of hundreds of millions of people. “We will conquer Europe one day. It is not a question of if we will conquer
Europe, just a matter of when that will happen. But it is certain. ... For us, there is no
such thing as borders. There are only
front lines,” said this spokesman to journalist Juergen Todenhoefer in an
article for CNN. “Our expansion will be
perpetual. ... And the Europeans need to know that when we come, it will not be
in a nice way. It will be with our
weapons. And those who do not convert to
Islam or pay the Islamic tax will be killed.”
ISIS, or the Islamic State as the
group is also known, has captured a number of cities across Iraq and Syria, and
has become known for beheading prisoners on camera and enslaving religious
minorities, including Christians. The
terror group’s mission is to establish an Islamic caliphate (political-religious
state) across the Middle East region, and eventually the world.
Todenhoefer visited the Iraqi city
of Mosul, which used to host a large Christian community, before it was taken
over by ISIS in June. The jihadists have
since imposed Islamic law on the land, forcing people to convert to Islam, pay
a tax, or face death.
When asked about Shiite Muslims who
don’t share the same beliefs as ISIS, the spokesman said that anyone who
refuses to convert will be killed. “150-million,
200-million or 500-million, it does not matter to us,” the jihadist said. “We will kill them all.”
He also argued that slavery is a
sign of “progress,” and claimed that the practice also exists among Christians
and Jews. “I would say that slavery is a
great help to us and we will continue to have slavery and beheadings; it is
part of our religion. ... Many slaves have converted to Islam and have then
been freed.”
The ISIS spokesman blamed the
beheading of several Western journalists and aid workers (including American
James Foley) on the U.S. government. “[Foley]
did not get killed because we started the battle. He got killed because of the ignorance of his
government that did not give him any help.”
Earlier in December, an ISIS senior
leader said in another revealing interview that the terror group was born at
the American Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq 10-years ago. The official, who chose to identify himself
by the name of Abu Ahmed, noted that Bucca, established after the American
invasion of Iraq in 2003, provided an “extraordinary opportunity” for the
growing number of jihadists imprisoned there.
“We could never have all got together like this in Baghdad, or anywhere
else,” Ahmed said. “It would have been
impossibly dangerous. Here, we were not
only safe, but we were only a few hundred meters away from the entire al-Qaeda
leadership.”
Imagine: One prison at America’s
Camp Bucca in Iraq contributed to ISIS.
Makes me wonder what’s going on in any one of the 2,100 mosques in the
United States!
Question: If I (as a Christian pastor)
can be monitored for my political statements from the pulpit by the IRS and be
subject to claims of ‘hate speech,’ then why can’t what’s being said in a U.S.
mosque be subject to the same scrutiny?
Currently, the answer can only be due to ‘political correctness’ or the
intentional persecution of Christians.
What else can it be?
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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