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On September 16, 2015, the Islamic State (ISIS) Al-Janoub province in Iraq released a brief message directed at Muslim refugees who left areas controlled by ISIS to embark on a dangerous journey to a number of Western countries in Europe.
The video is one of six videos that ISIS has released within the last 24 hours that specifically deal with the refugee crisis. The videos convey similar messages, such as expressing dismay with the refugees' decision to leave the Islamic State in order to seek refuge among the kuffar (infidels), and questioning the West's motives in offering aid to the refugees, claiming that their true intention is to eventually convert them to Christianity.
In the current video, an unnamed ISIS member notes that "hundreds" of Muslims living in ISIS-controlled areas have immigrated to the West.
He also speaks about a conspiracy by the Western nations taking in the refugees and warns Muslims against their "cunning." He says: "What is the interest of the kuffar [infidels], O sage [Muslim], when they opened their homelands to welcome you? What is the interest of those kuffar when they competed [with each other] in welcoming you and providing you with shelter in those homelands where Muslims are barely heard of or seen in?" The speaker accuses the West of aiding the refugees only to draw them away from Islam and eventually convert them to Christianity.
Addressing those who left the Islamic State to live among the infidel, the speaker warns them that by doing so they shall be tormented in the Hereafter.
Source: Shumoukh Al-Islam, September 16, 2015.
