A new CNN report shows that Islamic extremists are teaching kidnapped boys how to behead others “for the sake of God.”
CNN spoke to a young man who was able to escape his kidnappers from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the same group that is attempting to overthrow the governments of Syria, Iraq and Jordan.
The young man, called Mohammed, said that he was taken from his school when the terrorists stormed the building. The first thing they did was remove the female students from the room, saying it was forbidden for the young men to be in the same room with them. The terrorists then forced the boys into a truck and drove them into the desert.
“We were all so scared. On the way back, we were celebrating that we had finished our tests. We were excited to go home and see our families. We didn’t know why they took us,” Mohammed told CNN.
The terrorists then forced the children to watch videos of beheadings and were given instructions on how to kill prisoners by cutting off their heads. They were also trained in other methods of urban combat as if they were being prepared for the Iraq insurgency.
Mohammed escaped with other boys when classmates created a diversion.
“I was so happy when I got home. My mother had no idea that I had escaped. I was so excited to see her,” Mohammed said.
ISIS terrorists have told residents of the area there is now a bounty on Mohammed’s head.
The continuing failure of the Nigerian government to rescue almost 300 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram is being highlighted by a new round of kidnappings.
Members of the Islamic extremist group have taken at least 60 women and children from villages in Borno state in the northern part of the country. The BBC reports that in addition to the kidnappings, the Islamists slaughtered dozens of people as they raided the villages.
Boko Haram issued another call for the release of fighters in exchange for the girls. The government is still rejecting the trade.
The Senator for the region, Ali Ndume, told the BBC that he obtained reports that the terrorists also captured some young men that they plan to force into service for the Islamists.
Islamic terrorists attempting to take over Iraq are showing their blood lust by posting videos online of their extreme violence against Christians and others who do not follow their extremist views.
The U.S. State Department has taken note that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has committed a mass murder of Iraqi troops.
“The claim by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that it has massacred 1,700 Iraqi Shia air force recruits in Tikrit is horrifying and a true depiction of the blood lust that these terrorists represent,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. “While we cannot confirm these reports, one of the primary goals of ISIL is to set fear into the hearts of all Iraqis and drive sectarian division among its people.”
The United Nations has said that a half million people have fled the city of Mosul after last week’s capture by the Islamic extremists.
President Obama informed Congress on Monday that approximately 275 U.S. troops will be deployed to support U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy located in Baghdad. Iran reportedly has sent 500 Revolutionary Guard troops into the country to help the Iraqi government.
A group of Nigerian Christians are dead after Islamic terrorists impersonated pastors.
Members of Boko Haram entered the city Maidugur proclaiming they wanted to speak to the community about the “righteous path of God.” Villagers say the men said they came to preach and once the crowd was gathered, pulled out weapons and began to fire point-blank at the Christians who came to worship.
More gunmen then stormed into the village, destroying mobile phone towers to try and keep news of the attack from spreading and destroyed several houses belonging to the murder victims. They also burned down a Roman Catholic Church and government office.
The attack on Maidugur came after an assault early last week where Boko Haram impersonated government troops and said they were protecting villages in Borno province before launching assaults.
Nigeria, now considered the largest economy in Africa, has rejected offers of help from the United States and other western nations in stopping Boko Haram beyond searching for 200 kidnapped girls.
A Nigerian military court has found ten generals guilty in providing arms and intelligence to the Islamic terror group Boko Haram.
In addition to the generals, several other senior military officers were found to be telling the Islamic terror groups the sizes of military units and troop locations, allowing the terrorists to attack in places the government security forces were weak.
Boko Haram is currently the subject of an international manhunt because of almost 300 young girls kidnapped from a school. The Islamic terrorists are threatening to force the girls into marriages to Islamic men and to sell them as slaves if they refuse to convert to Islam.
The government’s prosecutors say that some of the military leaders convicted yesterday had been undermining the efforts to find the missing girls along with working to destroy the effectiveness of the government’s offensive against the Islamists.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said he believed there were members of the military and possibly members of the Cabinet who were supporters of and members of Boko Haram. Jonathan claims the government has now located the kidnapped girls but has yet to find a way to save them without endangering their lives.
A mentally ill 22-year-old California man killed six people and wounded seven others before killing himself in a premeditated murder rampage in Isla Vista, California.
Elliot Rodger posted a video online the day before his assault where he prepared to bring “retribution” on those who he believed had done him wrong, singling out college age women he said rejected him in favor of men he thought were crude and beneath him.
Rodger posted a 140-page manifesto online that he e-mailed to friends and family who were frantically searching for him the evening of his attack.
Rodger stabbed his three roommates to death before getting in a black BMW to start his rampage. He committed suicide when police closed in on him after a short chase.
Police say most of the deaths happened outside a convenience store where the bystanders didn’t realize initially what was happening and took some time to obtain cover. Witnesses say the gunman rapidly sped away after the shooting, running over two bicyclists in his way.
Police had been dispatched to Rodger’s house a month prior to the attack after reports of disturbing videos that he had placed online. Police visited with him and reported that they did not find any threatening signs.
An Islamic terrorist group attacked an open-air market in western China, leaving 31 people dead and close to 100 injured.
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported that terrorists drove off-road vehicles into a market in Urumqi and began to throw bombs into the crowds of shoppers. One of the vehicles was then abandoned in the center of the market and exploded as the terrorists fled the scene.
Witnesses say the majority of the dead are elderly people who visited their market to get fresh food for their family’s daily meal.
The attack comes as Chinese officials crack down on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, who they accuse of launching the Tiananmen Square attack last October and an attack on a train station in Urumqi last month.
An expert in ethnic relations in China says the attacks show a shift by the Muslim group. They had previously focused attacks and actions against military targets and government installations; now they are targeting innocent civilians with the intent of causing maximum casualties.
The leader of the Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram has released a new video where he declares his group is at war with Christians throughout the world.
“We know what is happening in this world,” Abubakar Shekau says, “It is a Jihad war against Christians and Christianity. It is a war against western education, democracy and constitution.”
Shekau goes on to say that even with the kidnapping of the girls and spending the last few years launching terrorist attacks on towns throughout the northern part of the country, the Jihad has not yet begun in Nigeria.
“We have not started,” he says, “next time we are going inside [Nigeria’s capital] Abuja. We are going to refinery and town of Christians.”
He goes on to say the Koran tells him that he needs to kill anyone who is Christian or associated with Christians because that is Allah’s will.
The group, whose name means “Western Education is sinful”, is the subject of a manhunt by Nigerian military officials and western air forces after their kidnapping of over 300 Christian girls from a school and village last month.
A Nigerian girl from the same village as 270 of the girls kidnapped by Islamic extremists Boko Haram is speaking out about her family being slaughtered by the terrorists.
Deborah Peters delivered a talk at the Hudson Institute where she talked about her brother and father getting gunned down by the terrorists. Peters said that she was at home with her brother on December 21, 2011 when gunfire broke out in her hometown of Chibok.
“So my brother called my dad and told him not to come home because they are fighting and my father told him to just forget about it,” Peters said.
Her father came home and a few hours later the terrorists stormed into their home and demanded her father, a Christian pastor whose church had been destroyed earlier in the year by the Islamists, renounce his faith in Christ.
“He told him that he would rather die than to go to hellfire,” Peters said. The terrorists then shot him three times in the chest while she watched. Then they turned their guns on her younger brother because they said he would grow up to be a pastor if they didn’t kill him.
Emmanuel Ogebe, an international human rights lawyer, attended the event and said that what we’re seeing now has been happening for years.
“What is happening now is this is persecution on steroids. Northern Nigerian Christians are used to being killed a couple of times a year,” Ogebe said. “But for terrorists to come out and abduct 300 kids, this is where Northern Nigerian Christians are saying ‘okay, we didn’t sign up for this.'”
Analysts in Africa say the kidnapping of almost 300 girls by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram could be a mistake that leads to the destruction of the group.
Rev. Kristopher Keating of World Horizons USA, said the uproar in Nigeria and around the world is putting a focus on the terrorists they didn’t anticipate. The Nigerian people are also taking advantage of the sudden world stage to show the suffering the Islamists have brought to the country.
“People are hungry to know that their suffering here is not going unnoticed, that reports of this particular instance of large scale abduction are, for seemingly the first time in this country, causing people to take to demonstration and public outcry against Boko Haram,” Keating told The Christian Post on Monday evening. “This could be a catalyzing event that breaks Boko Haram in Nigeria.”
Rev. Keating said many Christian leaders from around the world are traveling to the African nation to lead worship and prayer services to ask God to bring the girls home safely and for protection over the soldiers who are trying to bring the terrorists to justice.
