The world is filled with dumbasses, and some of them even come from Texas. But it takes a special kind of dumbassery to join the Islamic State:
An American English teacher who joined ISIS says that witnessing people being beheaded never bothered him because ‘they like to execute people in the US too.’
Warren Christopher Clark, 34, who joined the group in spring 2015 before being captured by Kurds earlier this month, spoke out about life in the so-called Islamic State from a prison in northern Syria.
Clark told NBC that during his time in Iraq and Syria ‘I saw some people being executed publicly, I saw some crucifixions… that’s just normal life there.’
Watching your first judicial crucifixion, a man of even average intelligence and/or a functioning moral compass might have said to himself “Huh, maybe I’ve made a mistake.”
Asked how he felt about it, he replied: ‘I’m from the United States, from Texas. They like to execute people, too. So I really don’t see any difference.
‘[Texas] might do it off camera, but it’s the same.’
Clark also admits that he had seen the execution videos before leaving to join the group, and hadn’t been put off.
‘That’s just normal life there,’ he said. ‘This is an Islamic society, an Islamic country, things like this happen.
‘I guess [it didn’t bother me] because I knew what I was coming to see.’
Yeah, not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Or even the sharpest spoon.
Asked why he decided to join the group, which was being bombed by the US at the time, he said: ‘I wanted to go see exactly what the group was about and what they were doing.’
Clark made contact with the group by applying to be an English teacher at the University of Mosul, Iraq, having been a substitute teacher in Sugar Land, Texas.
He even sent a resume with a cover letter to the course director, under the alias of Abu Mohammed al-Ameriki.
Most people researching radical terrorist organizations don’t feel the need to join them.
By the way, my parents lived in Sugar Land for many years. For those unfamiliar with Texas, it’s a suburban city southwest of Houston where I-69 and Highway 6 meet. A hotbed of Islamic radicalism it’s not.
Only five other American ISIS fighter are known to have been captured alive.He was accepted, and in June 2015 Clark said he traveled to Turkey before crossing into Syria and making his way to Iraq.
Two weeks ago he was captured in eastern Syria, near the Euphrates river, as Kurdish forces attempt to flush out the last remaining pocket of ISIS resistance.
He was captured alongside two men from Pakistan, another from Ireland, and a fifth from Trinidad and Tobago.
Clark claims he only ever worked as a teacher and refused to fight for ISIS, spending several terms in jail for refusing to pick up a weapon.
When interviewed by NBC he was walking on two crutches, but insisted he was injured in a ‘personal fight’.
Yeah, right.
“US officials have yet to reveal what they will do with Clark and another US citizen purportedly arrested by Kurdish-led forces, Zaid Abed al-Hamid.”
Here’s hoping Mr. Clark gets the precise degree of justice he deserves…