Men hired by the Islamic State to monitor the quality of goods in markets destroyed confiscated products last year in Raqqa, Syria. Credit Nour Fourat/Reuters
New York Times: Offering Services, ISIS Digs In Deeper in Seized Territories
ERBIL, Iraq — In northern Syria, the jihadists of the Islamic State have fixed power lines, dug sewage systems and painted sidewalks. In Raqqa, they search markets and slaughterhouses for expired food and sick animals. Farther south, in Deir al-Zour, they have imposed taxes on farmers and shopkeepers and fined men for wearing short beards.
The group runs regular buses across the border with Iraq to Mosul, where it publicly kills captives and trains children for guerrilla war. Last month, it reopened a luxury hotel in the city and offered three free nights to newlyweds, meals included.
A year after the Islamic State seized Mosul, and 10 months after the United States and its allies launched a campaign of airstrikes against it, the jihadist group continues to dig in, stitching itself deeper into the fabric of the communities it controls.
WNU Editor: A "government state" that follows the rules and laws of sharia while permitting the slavery of non-believers, sexual exploitation of captive women, the murder of gays, and the executions of captured enemy soldiers and/or religious/sectarian minorities. The problem that I have with this New York Times post is that it tries to humanize some of the policies of the Islamic State .... an organization whose foundation is inhuman in every-way.
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