It has a functional government, complete with Ministries of Education, Culture, Justice, Transportation, Energy and more. The Islamic State as a Country The Islamic State is not just a global revolutionary movement. In an ironic twist of fate, his stories can be even more frightening than some of the horrors … Even children in Mosul have been subjected to the same fate.īut what’s not well known is the environment under Islamic State that Hamid has been describing to me in recent months.
Thousands belonging to religious minorities have been raped and massacred. Male adulterers are thrown from high buildings females, stoned to death.Ī widowed and impoverished mother of four recently told the Guardian she had her hand chopped off for stealing.Įven small infractions like smoking cigarettes are punished by public floggings.Ĭhristianity is punishable by death. And the horrors of life in Mosul under the Islamic State are well known: He can’t even get his sick father out of town for urgently needed surgery. But he missed getting in by a hair and eventually decided instead to settle down in Mosul, get married and start a family.īut now, with ISIS in control, he’s trapped. In the following year, I helped him apply online for a Master’s program at a German university. He and I had just joined a Web platform for exchanging foreign languages and culture, and we talked via Skype regularly. I first met Hamid online in the summer of 2009, exactly five years before the Islamic State conquered his city in 2014. There are other shocking truths that few outside of their controlled territories know about, some of which will have major consequences for American investors and the entire world.Ĭonsider my friend Hamid, a 32-year-old Sunni Muslim, who teaches engineering in Mosul, the largest city in the world that’s controlled by the Islamic State. If you think you’ve heard all the worst horrors about the Islamic State, think again.
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