ISIS wannabes are using ‘Islam for Dummies’ before joining the terror fanatics in order to prepare themselves for jihad
Around 70 percent of recruits to the terrorist organisation only have a 'basic' knowledge of the culture
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ISIS wannabes who are pledging their lives to the cause are looking to books like 'Islam for Dummies' to educate them in the ways of the religion.
Around 70 percent of recruits to the terrorist organisation only have a 'basic' knowledge of the culture.
According to the Associated Press, which analysed more than 3,000 internal documents from the terror network, they are brushing up on what Shariah law actually is, and the Islamic legal system by ordering books online from sites like Amazon.
Convicted terrorists Mohammed Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar, 22-year-old recruits from Britain, ordered and before they traveled to Syria.
In 2014 the pair were arrested and convicted of terrorism-related charges when they tried to re-enter Britain.
Mohammed Abdelfadel, a prominent Islamic scholars, who monitors ISIS’ propaganda at Al-Azhar University, in Egypt said the terror group does not adhere to many of the core beliefs and laws of Islam, which include killing innocent civilians, as well as engaging in terrorism.
According to a study by the US Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, ISIS members “with the most religious knowledge within the organization itself are the least likely to volunteer to be suicide bombers.”
Tariq Ramadan, who teaches Islamic Studies at Oxford University said: “The people who are doing this are not experiencing martyrdom, they are criminals.
“They are killing innocent people. Nothing in Islam, nothing ever can justify the killing of innocent people. Never, ever.”
In fact, according to AP, several new recruits said they had no idea what joining ISIS actually involved.
A gay European newbie said: “It only required one prayer and no prior understanding of Islam. There was no hierarchy and it was all about living a good life.”
He added: “People like me were tricked into something that they didn’t understand. I never meant to end up with IS[IS].”
Another European ISIS rookie said he thought he was becoming a member of a group that was aiding Syrians in their fight against President Bashar Assad: “I realised that I was in the wrong place when they began to ask me questions on these forms like, ‘When you die, who should we call?’”