Friday, January 29, 2016

Recruited

Anis Henneghien was a teenager growing up in Belgium. In 2014, he "began going to a new mosque, praying up to five times a day, and arguing with his father over sections of the Quran. Then, in January 2014, he left."

At age 18 he had been recruited to join Islamic State. 

His mother Geraldine says that he once phoned to ask for a plane ticket home. Two hours later he called again to say that he would never come back. She thinks they kept him there. About a year later she was informed that he had died.

"I hate the recruiters," says Henneghien in tears. "Because they don't have the courage to go there. But they have the courage to send the young people there."

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