Residents of Mosul Say Life Under ISIS “A Million Times Better”

Daily Stormer
June 16, 2014

Interestingly (or not), the residents of Mosul overwhelmingly support the ISIS regime – even though they banned degeneracy, booze, drugs and women walking around without a veil – and say that life is much better under their rule.

Those who fled fearing a US bombing campaign following the ISIS takeover are now returning in droves to bask in the new peace and freedom brought to them by the liberating forces.

Business Week:

Most of those returning were Sunni Arabs. They believed that the worst, including the threat of air strikes, was now over. Some were ready to welcome the extremists as liberators, not occupiers. Others figured that ISIS rule was the lesser of two evils compared to the government of Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s Shiite Prime Minister, based in Baghdad. The ISIS has begun a military campaign against Baghdad itself even as the central government vows to retake the huge areas now occupied by the militants.

Life with the jihadists was “a million times better” than with Maliki’s officials, said Saad, a young father of three who had remained in Mosul. He had driven over to Erbil to pick up his wife and children, whom he had sent over for safety last week. Now, he said, it was safe to return. Mosul’s new rulers, he said, “were on the corners, on the streets, providing security. They’re courteous. If people greet them, they greet them back.” The Sunni Muslim added, “Maliki has been in power for eight years, and there’s been no improvement, at least not for Sunnis. There’s been no services, no electricity, no jobs.” The insurgents, he said, were providing cheap gasoline, removing roadblocks, and restoring electricity. “Whoever comes to Mosul and serves the people, we will support them,” he added, “no matter who they are.”

Asma, an elementary school teacher, was headed back too. She was in a minivan with her son behind the wheel and her daughters squeezed into the back. She said that she too had been fed up with the daily humiliation that she and her family had endured under the Maliki regime. Random searches had become routine, she complained, jobs were dished out to Shiites, policemen demanded bribes in exchange for protection. The cops harassed young people, and repeatedly beat up her son. All that, she hoped, would now come to an end.