Mistake in joining IS ˜romantic war

JUST A FANTASY : Theres more to life than running halfway across world taking up a lost cause which can only result in destruction and loss of innocent lives.OVER the past few months, there has been a steady stream of reports about foreign militants who, after leaving their countries to join the radical Islamic State militant movement in Syria and Iraq, have decided to repent their ways and return home. The testimonies that have been collected from these erstwhile œwarriors are interesting, for they tell of how many of them were soon disillusioned by what they saw and experienced in the war zone, with some of them not even allowed to take part in the fighting and asked to clean toilets and cook for the other œreal soldiers instead. Expecting a life of glory and martyrdom, some of them found instead a life of menial labour and were expected to perform valorous deeds such as cooking rice and cleaning plates ” not at all the œRambo-esque epic fantasy they had in mind.

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