“A British ice cream seller who went to join ISIS in Syria five years ago has pleaded to come home because he misses his mother and his life in Cardiff. Aseel Muthana left Wales for Syria in February 2014, aged 17, following his brother Nasser and another friend in joining the jihadist group.”

Muthana argues that he had good intentions when he joined the Islamic State: “We came when ISIS propaganda and ISIS media was all about helping the poor, helping the Syrian people,” he says. But of course the Islamic State was never about helping the poor and the Syrian people. Aseel Muthana is lying, full taqiyya style. The Islamic State was violent from its inception, rampaging across Iraq, seizing territory by means of bloody jihad to create an Islamic state. It moved speedily to “announce the creation of a caliphate, or Islamic state, spanning the territory they control in Iraq and Syria.” And published a “terrifying map” outlining a five year plan for far more conquests.

The wave of widely publicised ISIS beheadings began later in 2014, when journalist James Foley and British aid worker David Haines were among numerous people murdered in propaganda videos broadcast by the terror group. However, ISIS had its roots in extremist groups which had been using beheadings during the war in Iraq well before that.

It strains credulity to think that Muthana joined the Islamic State without full knowledge of its goals and mission. But he is hoping that social justice warriors will fall for his act. Muthana openly declared when he left to join the Islamic State that “jihad is obligatory” and that he was willing to die for the Islamic State’s cause.

While Aseel Muthana plays Westerners for fools and talks about his good old days as an ice cream seller and now misses his parents, other parents whose children were brutalized and beheaded by Islamic State jihadists such as Muthana are forced to live in grief and horror every day without their children, because they were killed in the name of Islam.

“British ice cream seller who joined ISIS in 2014 begs to come home because he ‘misses Cardiff and his mother’ after he is found in Syrian prison,” by Tim Stickings, MailOnline, October 1, 2019: