The Newest Guide On ISIS: Comparing Self-Declared Caliphate to “Plush Holiday Resort”

Abu Rumaysah, a British jihadist who fled the UK to join ISIS in Syria, has released an ebook guide titled, A Brief Guide to the Islamic State (2015). This guide targets western recruits and compares territories under the extremist group to a “plush holiday resort.”

When describing the food, Rumaysah writes, “If you thought you would be living on stale bread and septic water then erase that culinary fib from you mind. The great thing about food in the Caliphate is its freshness. You can be sure that the vegetables you crunch down on basked gloriously in the sunshine before reaching your dinner plate. And what about the olive groves? Yes, there are plenty of them and the pickles and rich oils that spring them beat anything from your local Tescos.”

Rumaysah boasts of the education offered in the Caliphate, “There are no classes promoting homosexuality, evolution, music, drama, interfaith and the rest of the rubbish taught in non-Muslim schools. You child’s delicate mind is well and truly protected in the Calihpate.”

Despite the strict curriculum, Rumaysah goes on saying the Caliphate, “screams diversity” and has become a “magnet for talent.” “If you thought London or New York was cosmopolitan then wait until you step foot in the Islamic State, because it screams diversity. In my short time here I have met people from absolutely every walk of life, proof that the Caliphate’s pulling power is strong and tenacious.”

There is, however, no mention of the sex slave markets, beheadings for being gay, dismemberment, stoning, violence and tyranny widely reported in Syria and Iraq.

Rumaysah extols the improvements to transportation under ISIS and how one can now travel freely between Iraq and Syria now that the “satanic boundary” has been bulldozed, even though the guide makes no mention of the historic monuments, antiquities, and religious sites it has also destroyed.

Just like the guide that was released in late March, How to Survive in the West: A Mujahid Guide (2015), this ebook is also just another propaganda piece designed to convert more Westerners to join fighters in Iraq and Syria, as ISIS strengthens its grip in the Middle East.

The guide ends with a chilling message for the West, “When we descend on the streets of London, Paris and Washington the taste will be far bitter, because not only will we spill your blood, but we will also demolish your statues, erase your history, and, most painfully, convert your children who will then go on to champion our name and curse their forefathers.”