12-09-2014, 05:16 PM
I don't know if the hostages are drugged before execution. It wouldn't surprise me in the cases of those who are commanded to read messages to the US and Britain before their beheadings. Then again, we know from released prisoners that they're tortured and starved, so they might just be unable to mentally and physically fight back by the time they're executed.
I do think IS drugs its recruits/fighters.
Some IS fighters who became hostages were questioned by an American detainee and journalist.
One of them spoke of how IS preys on those living in poverty, promising them great things and luring them with religion.
Another talked about IS torturing its fighters and drugging them before battles so that they don't care if they live or die.
Interesting quick read: http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/world/meas...rs-watson/
It's easier for me to understand how Muslims surrounded by IS and its influence could be recruited; harder for me to understand all of the volunteers from the western world joining IS's ranks.
I think most of the foreign fighter population is probably comprised of violent pieces of shit just seizing an opportunity to kill and destroy + very gullible and lost individuals looking to belong to something bigger than themselves + mentally ill and on a kind of suicide mission. There are so damned many of them from so many countries. Whatever is driving them, they're a bunch of seriously messed up individuals.
I do think IS drugs its recruits/fighters.
Some IS fighters who became hostages were questioned by an American detainee and journalist.
One of them spoke of how IS preys on those living in poverty, promising them great things and luring them with religion.
Another talked about IS torturing its fighters and drugging them before battles so that they don't care if they live or die.
Interesting quick read: http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/world/meas...rs-watson/
It's easier for me to understand how Muslims surrounded by IS and its influence could be recruited; harder for me to understand all of the volunteers from the western world joining IS's ranks.
I think most of the foreign fighter population is probably comprised of violent pieces of shit just seizing an opportunity to kill and destroy + very gullible and lost individuals looking to belong to something bigger than themselves + mentally ill and on a kind of suicide mission. There are so damned many of them from so many countries. Whatever is driving them, they're a bunch of seriously messed up individuals.