So imagine this:
You are scrolling through your Facebook and see the same old same old. Your gramma finally figured out how to take a selfie, your new baby cousin can walk, and if you take a video o yourself tripping up the stairs, you will become internet famous. So like I said, nothing new.
But then an ad pops up, giving you the opportunities to provide humanitarian aid in Syria where a civil war was raging. You think to yourself well I do need some community service hours and this is better than walking my neighbors dog so you decide to look into it. Then a stranger offers to assist you gaining entry in the war-torn nation. You meet in person, and an escape plan is devised with your new "friend": He would help you cross into Syria by way of Turkey.
This little adventure happened to two Tunisian girls, ages 19 and 21, who escaped the confines of an ISIS compound in Syria. First this "friend" took them to Istanbul, where they picked up a third girl of unknown European descent and from there, they were taken to an ISIS compound. Instead of the so called humanitarian work, these girls were "serving as prostitutes basically for jihad marriage," says Al-Suwajj after interviewing these girls while on a trip to Tunisia. He then added how they were raped daily by a rotation of several different ISIS fighters.
"They got tricked and they didn't know until they were there. They didn't know they were going to conduct jihadi marriage for all these fighters." The European girl who had traveled with the two Tunisians cracked shortly after arrival, flipping out and screaming. Her outcry resulted in her slaughtering in front of the other two girls with a knife.
The ISIS compound was bombed shortly after and the two girls fled, pretending to be Syrian refugees, and escaped to Turkey where they contacted the Tunisian embassy and later, returned home.
"Unless [parents are] in the position to monitor their child's internet access-- these are 17, 18, 19-year-old children-- they're not going to know what they're being exposed to and how they're going to react to it," says Thomas Berg, a defense attorney and a former U.S. Army colonel.
ISIS's ability to stage multi-pronged terrorist attacks in cities like Paris and their willingness to decapitate Westerners and journalist is beyond troubling, but their ability to use social media to convert and recruit young European and American teens using Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube is even more chilling.
So, are you scared yet?
xoxo, Kaila
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