At 9, He Was Taken by ISIS—Now He’s Warning Australia About the Returned ‘Brides’
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Category: WARS & RUMORS OF WARS
Summary:
Sameer Dakhil Alazeez was kidnapped by ISIS at the age of nine, taken from his family and farming community in Iraq. Prior to his abduction, he survived a car bombing that left him unable to walk for a year due to severe leg burns. In 2014, as ISIS advanced into his hometown, he fled and hid before being captured and held for seven months, during which he endured captivity and abuse. ISIS tried to force him to convert to Islam at gunpoint during his imprisonment.
Mysterion Insights
Scripture: Matthew 10:17-19 (NASB 1977)
"“But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to the courts, and scourge you in their synagogues; and you shall even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not become anxious about how or what you will speak; for it shall be given you in that hour what you are to speak.”"
Commentary:
Jesus spoke plainly about being handed over and abused. A child being taken at gunpoint and pressured to renounce his faith shows how quickly violence targets the vulnerable. Bruises, burns, and fear are not abstract; people carry them in their bodies for years. This kind of coercion and hatred toward testimony fits the prophetic pattern of increasing lawlessness and persecution that Scripture describes. Iraq sits in the Bible’s Mesopotamian world, and the cruelty there echoes older conflicts over worship and allegiance.
Prophetic Trend:
Militant coercion and forced conversions highlight a growing pattern of violence aimed at breaking witness and conscience, tightening pressure on the most vulnerable.
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Source Excerpt:
Sameer Dakhil Alazeez was just nine years old when he was kidnapped by the ISIS terrorist group—ripped away from his family and farming community in Iraq. It was not his first encounter with terrorism. Two years earlier, Alazeez survived a car bombing that left his legs so badly burned he was unable to walk for a year. In 2014, he remembers being a child who understood little of politics or religion. But as ISIS swept into his hometown, he was forced to flee—hiding in olive groves and surviving on animal feed—until he was eventually captured. What followed was seven months of captivity and abuse, during which ISIS operatives tried to force him to convert to Islam at gunpoint.......
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Source: The Epoch Times
Posted on 05-15-2026 17:44