A new United Nations report is outlining the ways ISIS has been brutalizing children.
The UN International Children’s Fund says that over 5 million children have had their lives directly impacted by ISIS actions. Thousands of children have been used both as human shields by the terrorists or have been strapped to tables and had their blood drawn for terrorists wounded in attacks.
The report outlines specific instances where the terrorists were using children to create propaganda devices. In one case, the terrorists went to a hospital and pulled two cancer stricken children out of bed to pose in a picture holding an ISIS flag with fighters.
The report outlines statements from former teenage fighters that say ISIS is forcing children to take drugs so they will carry out any order including suicide terror attacks.
In addition to the front line uses, the terrorists are also forcing children to be domestic servants, cooking, cleaning and bringing water to the wounded in makeshift hospitals.
A 15-year-old ISIS member captured by Kurdish forces has answered one of the questions behind why members of Islamic terrorist groups carry out suicide bomb attacks.
Kareem Mufleh says that the leaders of ISIS pump drugs into their fighters and suicide bombers so that they will carry out their missions without questions.
Muflah says that he had no choice to join ISIS.
“They captured my village and gave me a choice,” Mufleh said. “Either join ISIS or be beheaded.”
Mulfah says that the drug given to the suicide bombers was an anti-anxiety drug. They would give the drugs in such levels that the bombers would go insane and then are given a suicide belt and told where to go to carry out the attack.
Mufleh had levels of the anti-anxiety drug Zolam in his system.
The teen also described the brutality of the group. He was part of an attack on a wedding where ISIS slaughtered the bride because the wedding dress showed the bride’s arms and neck.
A Christian woman who is dying of cancer is writing a pro-life plea to counter the massive amount of publicity being given to the woman in Oregon who announced the day of her death by suicide.
Brittany Maynard has been gaining attention on major news networks because she plans to kill herself rather than live through the final stages of brain cancer. Many right-to-die media outlets have been airing her story, calling for assisted suicide to be allowed across the nation.
However Kara Tippetts, a Christian woman who is dying from cancer, is challenging Maynard’s claims and calling on her to realize the value of her life even if she has a terminal disease.
“Brittany, I love you, and I’m sorry you are dying. I am sorry that we are both being asked to walk a road that feels simply impossible to walk,” Tippetts wrote. “[But] in your choosing your own death, you are robbing those that love you with the such tenderness, the opportunity of meeting you in your last moments and extending you love in your last breaths. … That last kiss, that last warm touch, that last breath, matters—but it was never intended for us to decide when that last breath is breathed.”
Tippetts pleads with Maynard not to take an overdose of drugs on November 1st.
“Knowing Jesus, knowing that He understands my hard goodbye, He walks with me in my dying,” she explains. “My heart longs for you to know Him in your dying. Because in His dying, He protected my living. My living beyond this place.”
The man who has overseen the most anti-Christian Justice Department in American history is going to be leaving the position.
Justice Department and White House officials confirmed that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be announcing his resignation but staying on until a successor is confirmed to replace him.
Holder’s tenure in the office has been marked by multiple scandals and an open hostility toward conservative and Christian groups.
During Holder’s reign, evangelical Christians were listed to soldiers at military basis as threats to the country, although that was later claimed as a mistake. They also said that when the soldiers were threatened with punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice if they donated to evangelical an Christian group, that was also a mistake.
Holder has also been at the forefront of suing Christian groups and organizations who refuse to follow the ACA’s mandates on abortion inducing drugs. He also vehemently defends the law against any Christian group that sues against it, including the Little Sisters of the Poor.
The Obama administration has decided even in light of the Hobby Lobby ruling from the Supreme Court to continue their action to force nuns to pay for abortion causing drugs.
The administration filed a “supplemental brief for the government” Monday in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in their lawsuit with the Little Sisters of the Poor. The order sued to not be forced to pay for abortion causing drugs because it violates the Christian faith.
“This Court should proceed with oral argument in these cases,” the administration wrote in the brief. “Because of the injunctions issued in these cases, the women employed by the plaintiffs have been and continue to be denied access to contraceptive coverage.”
The Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, which is overseeing the case for the Little Sisters, told the Christian Post they were disappointed that the government is going to continue to target the nuns.
“We’re disappointed that the government still insists on picking religious winner and losers and exempting church while telling the Little Sisters of the Poor they’re not religious enough,” Adele Keim said.
In what some people are calling a very dangerous stand against the mafia in Italy, Pope Francis made a bold declaration against drug use Friday.
“Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise,” the Pope said in an address carried by Vatican radio. “Here I would reaffirm what I have stated on another occasion: No to every type of drug use. It is as simple as that.”
The Pope addressed the issue because he believes there is a rush toward more drug abuse and use in western nations, specifically in so-called “soft drugs” like marijuana. He focused on issues such as U.S. states that have approved use of marijuana.
“Attempts, however limited, to legalize so-called ‘recreational drugs’, are not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail to produce the desired effects,” the Pope stated. “The scourge of drug use continues to spread inexorably, fed by a deplorable commerce which transcends national and continental borders.”
The Pope said that youth should say “yes” to things much more important than drugs: life, love, education, job opportunities and serving others ahead of themselves.
Dallas police say almost 120 people in the last five days have overdosed on the synthetic marijuana K2.
Police sources say that the drug likely originated from a Dallas supplier.
The director of prevention programs for the Council on Alcohol & Drug Abuse in Dallas said that while K2 use on the whole is not rising, addicts are always looking for new suppliers who might carry tainted forms of the drug.
K2, which is supposed to mimic the effects of natural marijuana, can have multiple toxic impacts on the body. The recent overdose victims in Dallas suffered comas and some had to be sedated because of uncontrolled tremors and seizures.
Police say the drug is difficult to regulate because the makers keep changing the ingredients, which technically make it a new drug. Lawmakers would have to pass laws to make every single version of the drug illegal before police can take action to stop the drug’s use.
A new research study from Columbia University shows that fatal car accidents involving marijuana have tripled in the last ten years.
One of the co-authors of the study, Dr. Guohua Li, said that currently one in nine drivers involved in fatal crashes would test positive for marijuana.
“If this trend continues, in five or six years non-alcohol drugs will overtake alcohol to become the most common substance involved in deaths related to impaired driving,” Dr. Li said.
The study comes on the heels of states such as Colorado legalizing marijuana for use by the public. Alcohol related traffic fatalities held steady at 40 percent throughout the decade but drug related deaths climbed from 16 percent in 1999 to 28 percent in 2010. The scientists fear more legalization could continue to drive up the rate of drug related crashes.
“If a driver is under the influence of alcohol, their risk of a fatal crash is 13 times higher than the risk of the driver who is not under the influence of alcohol,” Li told Breitbart. “But if the driver is under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana, their risk increases to 24 times that of a sober person.”
The lethal combination of heroin and fentanyl that had been making its move along the East Coast has now killed at least 80 people in the last few weeks.
The tainted heroin has now drawn a bulletin from the Drug Enforcement Association to local authorities for “killer heroin.” Fentanyl is considered 80 times stronger than morphine and is used for people in extreme pain such as cancer patients.
Police in Vermont have released information that pure fentanyl is being sold as heroin in their state.
Ellen Unterwald of the Center for Substance Abuse Research at Temple University said the dealers sell the drug as creating a “super high” but don’t mention the fentanyl. Unterwald said just a small amount of the drug can be lethal by stopping the victim’s breathing.
New York City police released information that the heroin that killed actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was not a tainted batch of heroin but pure drug.
A report released in the wake of the heroin overdose of Oscar winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman shows that over 70 million Americans are addicted to some kind of mind altering drugs.
While the vast number of addictions is initially to prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, many of the addicts find their way to illegal drugs such as heroin because they are cheaper and provide many of the same effects.
The study says that if you include the 60 million Americans who are alcoholics, 130 total Americans daily are under the influence of some kind of mind-altering drug.
The study did not take into account people who are now using marijuana in the wake of legalization in Colorado and Washington. Several other states are also considering legalization of the drug including California. Stock prices for companies that grow cannabis have soared since the beginning of the year.
The Department of Health and Human Services reports that in the average year, 30 million Americans drive drunk and an additional 10 million drive while under the influence of drugs.
