http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014 ... ish-Mosque
In a fascinating story by the Agence France-Presse, a Kurdish civilian who worked as a grocer in Kobani, Cuneyt Hemo, tells the story of his first encounter with an Islamic State terrorist, and one of the first known accounts of civilian Kurds and jihadists crossing paths near the Turkish border. Hemo explains that the jihadist, a 20-year-old from Azerbaijan, "begged us to kill him so he could go to paradise and be rewarded," and refused to accept food or other aid. Kurdish soldiers ultimately killed the man, but not before questioning him on his motives and attempting to prove to him that the Kurds he considered "infidels" were also Muslims.
"We asked him why the jihadists were attacking us. He replied that we were kuffar (the infidels) and they had received the order to put us on the path of true Islam," said Hemo, adding that they tried to prove to him that Kurds were, in fact, Muslims, and that there was no logic to his quest to be killed. YPG (the male Kurdish army) soldiers took him to a mosque, but, Hemo recalls, "We tried in vain to help him find reason. But he did not want to know anything."
"He said again and again that we were the infidel and he wanted to go to paradise to find the 40 women who had been promised to him," he added, noting that, finally, soldiers killed him as he requested after he refused to eat or drink and vowed to kill himself in a suicide attack if the Kurds did not kill him in captivity.
The story highlights the distorted psychology of Islamic State jihadists and how their will to die influences their activity. They cannot be brought to submission by threats of death, as they actively seek to be killed in the hands of "infidels." There is only one widely-accepted exception to this rule: dying at the hands of a woman, which Islamic State fighters believe will cause them to forfeit any rewards they may receive in the afterlife.
