An ISIS Exegesis of Christmas
What is Christmas really about? Christmas Trees? Decorative Lights? Cheerful Music? -or- Betrayal! The Self-Sacrificing Love of a Father! A Ransom Paid! This last week I read several articles about families whose children ran away to join ISIS. Knowing the atrocities and the violence and the brainwashing and the trauma most of us find the idea of joining ISIS completely repugnant. And obviously the families in these articles that I read were similarly shocked that their own children would have chosen to go and join such a group. They were repulsed and could not believe that their child would do such a thing. Many of them were under age but had gotten hold of their passports by deceptive means and in many cases they had stolen money from their family in order to finance their travel to Syria or Iraq. One article told of two young girls who had left their home in the United States and were caught by the police in Germany before they were able to make it to ISI