ISIS uses drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi's photo to instill fear

ISIS uses toddler Aylan Kurdi's death to instill fear and set an example of what happens to those who try to leave their land.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (Catholic Online) - The world mourned Aylan Kurdi's death. The toddler's story focused attention to the migrant crisis and refugees fleeing countries under Jihadist rule. 

Now, only one week after Aylan's death, ISIS has released a twisted article featuring the boy's body as it rested on the shore of Bodrum.

The article, titled "The Danger of Abandoning Darul Islam" appeared in a monthly propaganda magazine and blamed Aylan's parents for his death.

The article claimed Allah punished those who left ISIS-held territory because leaving was the same as abandoning their religion.

"It should be known that voluntarily leaving Darul-Islam [Islamic State] for Darul-Kufr [land of the non-believers] is a dangerous major sin, as it is a passage towards kufr [disbelief] and a gate towards one's children and grandchildren abandoning Islam for Christianity, atheism, or liberalism," the article reads.

It continued, claiming children and grandchildren would turn to "fornication, sodomy, drugs, and alcohol ... if they don't fall into sin, they will forget the language of the Koran -Arabic- which they were surrounded by in Sham [Syria], Iraq, Libya, and elsewhere, making the return to the religion and its teachings more difficult."

In evidence of their claims, many Islamic scholars were quoted and Koran passages were listed. The article even claimed there were strict rules for how long Muslims can be outside ISIS territory.

The article is the group's attempt to stop the thousands of migrants from leaving Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The number of refugees has reached over 20,000 people on the Greek island of Lesbos alone.

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