ISIS Killer captured and an Ice cold Confession Given
Crazy Eyes Omar: can grow Handlebar Eyebrows. (PHOTO: Fox/Peshmerga)
"I would kill you . . . . "
I'm sure those words reverberated for quite a time in the mind of the interviewer, after conducting her tete a tete with the ISIS executioner taken captive by Kurdish fighters in Northern Iraq.
This 25 year old killer for ISIS forces, named Omar, now permanently off of the battlefield as a result of his capture by Kurdish fighters in October, claims--when asked what he would do if he saw his female interviewer (a Fox reporter named Hollie McKay who travelled to Iraq for the exclusive interview) on the street, he stated the following:
“I would call you to Islam and if you did not come, I would kill you.”
Astounding words coming from someone who claims to follow what historically had always been (at least before the age of terrorism ie prior to the post 9/11 days) considered to be the Religion Of Tolerance. Islam as practiced by the vast majority of sane Muslims is indeed one of tolerance--built into its very fiber is a recognition of Jesus, Christianity, and of course, Judaism. The years of the Ottoman Empire in Israel-Palestine when the Turks administered the Holy Land were probably the most ideal, when all religions were treated with equal recognition and room was made for all.
Kurds up in Northern Iraq have captured hundreds of ISIS fighters there--the usual give and take of fortune in the day to day grind of battle--but our Omar not only had an especially gruesome profession within ISIS, but is willing to talk openly about it.
Omar claims now that he was "forced" into action with ISIS:
“They came to our area and forced me to protect their lands,” he said of regional ISIS commanders. “After a while they told me, ‘When are you going to start protecting your own land?’ They told me to do it or die, and then they killed people in front of me.”
His allegation of being "forced" into action rings hollow, when one listens to the man's sentiments about killing Holly McKay on the street for not following Islam. While a part of the ISIS ranks, in a mere couple of months, Omar personally carried out 70 executions.
Why? What was the capital crime committed by the victims?
“Because they were saying bad words about A'isha," he said. A'isha was one of Muhammad's wives, and is known by some as The Mother of Believers. Then, as if realizing how hollow that justification sounded, he threw in:
"And burning a mosque."
Omar was--as mentioned above--captured this past October, and sentenced to death after being convicted of terrorism. His sentence was then reduced to life in prison, for reasons that are not entirely clear. Now that he faces the awful non-future of wiling away his many decades of remaining life in a Kurdish prison cell for the rest of his natural life, Omar has turned rat on his former terrorism clique and offered to fight alongside the Kurdish peshmerga and/or the Iraqi military in general.
Nobody is biting on that particular carrot being dangled before them. Noting the extreme degree of fanaticism still resident within him--and also noting that when Omar discusses ISIS, he uses the actively-connected "we," thereby revealing that his heart still resides actively with his old battlefield buddies--no one is interested.
With friends like Omar, we really don't need any enemies.
Preston Clive
12/12/2014*
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