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60,000 Kurds Flee Syria Ahead of ISIS

Observers estimate at least 60,000 Kurds have fled from Syria toward Turkey over a single 24-hour period because of ISIS.

“ISIS came and attacked, and we left with the women, but the rest of the men stayed behind,” 24-year-old Abdullah of Shiran told Reuters. “They killed many people in the villages, cutting their throats. We were terrified that they would cut our throats too.”

Witnesses say that women, children and the elderly were seen fleeing in large groups on foot.

“Islamic State is killing any civilian it finds in a village,” Mustefa Ebdi, the director of local radio station Arta FM, added. “People prefer to flee rather than remain and die. [ISIS wants] to eliminate anything that is Kurdish. This is creating a state of terror.”

Turkish officials reportedly stopped the group at the border and refused to allow them to cross until they confirmed they were fleeing ISIS.

U.N. officials called on world charities to send food and supplies to the region to help the refugees.

ISIS Announces Grand Theft Auto Like Video Game To Recruit Western Kids

The terrorist group ISIS has announced they are releasing a video game similar to Grand Theft Auto in an attempt to recruit western children into their organization.

The media wing of the group says the game will “raise the morale of the mujahedin and to train children and youth how to battle the West and to strike terror into the hearts of those who oppose the Islamic State.”

The trailer for the game shows images of ISIS terrorists attacking various groups and chanting praise when they kill their target.  In one instance, an ISIS sniper kills his target and yells “Allahu Akbar” after the kill.

Four Terrorists Tried To Cross Mexican Border

A Congressman has revealed information that the administration had been trying to hide regarding the capture of four terrorists attempting to sneak into the country through the unsecured southern border.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah told reporters he was informed that four individuals with ties to Middle Eastern terrorist organizations were arrested attempting to enter the country the day before the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Rep. Chaffetz was on a committee questioning Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson who testified in the hearing that “no specific cases came to mind” when asked about terrorists being stopped coming into the country. When the revelations from Rep. Chaffetz were mentioned, Johnson said he’d heard the reports but didn’t know how much credence to give them.

“Over the last 351 days, yet by Homeland Security’s own numbers, 157,000 people got away. And the people we did capture, they come from 143 different countries. Thirteen were from Syria, six were from Iraq, four were from Iran,” Chaffetz said. “We have a porous border. We are worried about every story on the news tonight is about ISIS. I’m worried about them actually coming to the United States and crossing that porous border and getting into the homeland.”

Johnson did admit that since so many people cross the border it would be impossible to stop every terrorist that would try to enter the country.

Sheikh Wields Gun At Mosque; Claims Violence Only Way

A video smuggled out of a mosque in the Gaza strip shows a Muslim sheikh wielding a rifle and calling for violence against Israel as the only way to establish a Palestinian state.

Sheikh Lyad Abu Funun is shown in the video released by Middle East Media Research Institute.  In the speech, he declares that Israel did not succeed on any level during the 50-day war for disarming Hamas terrorists.

“The Israelis came to conquer the Gaza Strip. Did they succeed in doing so? No, they did not. They came to take these weapons away from us,” Funun yells. “Do I still hold this weapon or not?  They came to take these weapons away from us. Did they succeed?”

Those attending the event chanted “Allah Akbar” while the sheikh gave his rant.

The video also shows another part of the sermon where Funan says the weapons are the only way.

“This war has proven that these weapons are our only means to liberate our land,” Funan said. “These weapons are our only means to liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque.  These weapons are our only means to establish the Islamic state.  These weapons are our only means to reestablish Muhammad’s caliphate. These weapons are our only means to instate the law of Allah.”

ISIS Releases Magazine Promising To Destroy Israel; U.S.

The Islamic terrorist group ISIS announced plans to attack Israel and eventually the U.S. in a magazine they produced called “Dabiq”.

The terrorists say the conflict with Hamas has made Israel a target for their campaign of violence.

“As for the massacres taking place in Gaza against the Muslim men, women and children, the Islamic State will do everything within its means to continue striking down every apostate who stands as an obstacle on its path toward Palestine,” one article states.  “Our actions speak louder than its words and it is only a matter of time and patience before it reaches Palestine to fight the barbaric Jews and kill those of them hiding behind the gharqad trees — the trees of the Jews.”

The magazine was named for a town where the terrorists believe Muslims and Westerners will fight before the apocalypse.

The magazine ends with the group telling their followers that they wlll eventually conquer the entire Arabian Peninsula, Rome and then will defeat the anti-Christ.

“ISIS’s tactics span all media, with devoted Twitter accounts and YouTube channels, including ones that showed the horrifying — and slickly shot — execution of photojournalist James Foley,” Josh Kovensky of the New Republic writes. “… much of Dabiq’s content focuses on a coming apocalypse, while pulling out the same glossy stops that one would expect from an American magazine.”

Nigerian Christian Survives Brutal Boko Haram “Conversion Attack”

The Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is known for invading villages and giving the residents the option to convert to Islam or die.  What has not been known is the extent of the brutality this group has used to try and get conversions, along with why so many people seem to give in to their demands.

A Christian man, John Yakuba, had fled the city of Gwoza with his family when the terrorists first began to invade.  He and his family had to leave everything behind in the rush to get away and save their lives.

Unfortunately, his family was unable to find a place to live that would support them so he had to return to the village to see if he could recapture some of their livestock.

The terrorists seized him before he could even make it to his former home.

“You must convert to Islam or else you will die a painful death,” he was told.

“You can kill my body, but not my soul,” Yakuba repied.

The terrorists then methodically began slashing his body with a machete.  His hands, then his back, then his feet.  All the time asking if he would follow Allah.  When it became clear the man would not deny the Savior Jesus Christ, they hit him in the knee and head with an axe and left him for dead when he passed out.

In what can only be described as a miracle, someone spotted Yakuba tied to a tree three days after the assault and Yakuba was alive.  He is currently recovering in a hospital in a safe area of the country.

“I have forgiven the Islamic militants because they did not know what they are doing,” Yakuba told witnesses at the hospital.

ISIS Beheads Another Western Hostage

The Islamic extremist group ISIS has murdered another western hostage.

The group posted a video on Saturday labeled “a message to the allies of America” where they showed footage of British Prime Minister David Cameron condemning ISIS and then cut a video of British aid worker David Haines kneeling in front of a masked man.

Haines then made a statement that condemns Britain and blames Cameron for his execution although most intelligence experts say his captors were feeding that message to him.

The terrorist who killed Haines is believed to be the same British man who beheaded two American captives.

Islamic extremists kidnapped the 44-year-old Haines last year while he was providing humanitarian aid in Syria.

ISIS is threatening to kill another British hostage if airstrikes continue against their terror organization.

Colorado Teen Pleads Guilty To Attempting To Help ISIS

A Colorado teenager is facing up to five years in prison after she admitted she was attempting to reach Syria so she could help the Islamic terrorist group ISIS.

Shannon Conley, 19, had been turned into police last fall after attending Faith Bible Church in Arvada, Colorado.  The attendees at the church felt something troubling concerning the young woman.  Police then investigated her on several occasions.

According to reports, the young woman met a man online identified as 32-year-old ISIS terrorist Yousr Mouelhi and the two began a courtship through the video chat service Skype.  She asked her father if she could marry Mouelhi and he refused so she made plans to head to Syria without her family’s knowledge.

The father called police when he discovered his daughter had a plane ticket to Turkey.  She was taken into custody at Denver International Airport.

Conley had trained as a nurse’s aide and admitted to investigators she was going to work at a jihadist camp as a nurse.  She also said she wanted to wage jihad against the United States.

The sentencing for Conley was scheduled for January while she undergoes psychological evaluation.

“Cultural Cleansing” Of Christians By ISIS Being Ignored

A Princeton law professor is speaking out over the large number of Americans and residents of other western nations that are ignoring the systematic “cultural cleaning” of Christians from the Middle East.

Robert George says Christians in the west need to step up and spur their governments to action.

“It must be a kind of complacency that comes with power and affluence,” George said. “We are happy. We are content. We are not persecuted, or not very much. So, we do not see the persecution of our brothers and of our sisters on the other side of town.”

“Where is the voice being raised on behalf of Middle Eastern Christians by my fellow American Christians and Christians in Europe?” George continued. “Yes, some do raise their voices and they are to be congratulated. To often this persecution goes on and we hear nothing. No voices raised by Christians.”

George, the vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, spoke at a press conference announcing a gathering of Middle East Christians.

“The narrative has too often been internalized by Christians themselves so that they fear speaking out lest they be confronted with a claim that Christians have no right to complain about persecution because their history has been one of persecuting,” George said. “As the heads are being chopped off by ISIS and other criminals, as the tortures are occuring, people are being burried alive, women are being raped. As evil beyond imagineable, genicidal evil is being done, we in the West must not worry about being accused of special pleading.”

ISIS Three Times Larger Than Previously Believed

ISIS is reportedly much larger than many world leaders had previously believed when decisions were being made to create an international coalition.

The CIA has released a new study showing that ISIS could have as many as 31,000 terrorist fighters, three times higher than previously thoughts by intelligence agencies.

“This new total reflects an increase in members because of stronger recruitment since June following battlefield successes and the declaration of a caliphate, greater battlefield activity, and additional intelligence,” CIA spokesman Ryan Trapani told the BBC.

The announcement comes on a day that 10 Arab countries formalized their pledges to help the U.S. stop the Islamic terrorist group.  Ministers from Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates all pledged military support and humanitarian aid.

“The region recognizes the danger that has been unleashed and they are full-throatedly ready to deal with that and that is why they committed today to take the actions they have committed to,” Secretary of State Kerry said to reporters.