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RE: Religion of Terror? Leaked ISIS Docs Show 70% of Recruits Don’t Even Know What Islam Is

in #politics7 years ago

That poverty is used by those in power to recruit soldiers to protect their wealth and financial interests is a recurring theme, not (only) in the distant past, but it is in full swing today. Low level drug dealers, ISIS fighters, piracy... Any one of us caught in that soul-wearying predicament might become victims to this system. The problem is the system, not the people (unwittingly) caught up in it.

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They intentionally make children orphans so that they can raise them and educate them. Most people can't imagine the number of street children in Iraq. It's heartbreaking.