IS Insurgents Say Europe-bound Refugees Are Courting Sin

Syrians and Libyans fleeing their war-torn countries and seeking to settle in Europe are exposing their children to atheism, drugs, alcohol and sexual permissiveness, Islamic State insurgents say.

And if the refugees have fled territory controlled by the militants, IS adds, they are committing a sin.

The judgments were contained in an article in the latest issue of the IS online magazine, Dabiq. Analysts said the magazine’s content and rulings are approved at the group's highest leadership levels.

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, an analyst and author of the book “Bin Laden's Legacy,” said IS “comes as close to pure mustache-twirling evil as any group ever has” with such statements. He argued that IS helped to provoke the refugee crisis by terrorizing civilians.

“Criticizing the refugees at an awful time like this shows the group's true colors,” he said. “It's not as though IS's true colors weren't known before, but the group takes an unusual degree of glee in displaying them.”

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