From an undisclosed location, a Syrian activist operating under the pseudonym Rafiq spoke to CNN about the war taking place on one of ISIS’s main front linessocial media. The targets of the grassroots offensive are foreign fighters, notorious for using their Twitter and Facebook accounts to encourage young people to join their jihad.
“We would like to deliver this message to those who are joining ISIS especially from Europe, America, and some Arab countries and make them understand this is not the way, and this is not humility and this is not Islam,” Rafiq says, “You can’t just go and let some guy brainwash you and make you think you will go to paradise.”
A group of 12 natives split evenly inside the ISIS strongholds of Raqqah and Abu Kamal recently launched the hashtags “Scream from al-Raqqah” and “Abu Kamal Under Fire” to heckle ISIS extremists and share photos and news from the occupied cities.
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“Syrian people are very patient, but we have a limit,” Rafiq told CNN.
“What happens with Assad, it might happen with ISIS and with anyone else. I think that might happen very soon.”
