‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Willie Robertson Endorses Bobby Jindal for President; Says He Is a ‘Godly Man’

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‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Willie Robertson Endorses Bobby Jindal for President; Says He Is a ‘Godly Man’

Bobby Jindal and Willie Robertson (Photo: Screengrab)

Christian Post Report – ‘Duck Dynasty’ star Willie Robertson and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

“Duck Dynasty” star and outspoken Christian Willie Robertson said he believes Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal should run for president in 2016.

“He’s a great man. He’s a Godly man,” said Robertson in an interview with Fox Talk Radio’s “Kilmeade and Friends” Monday. “He’s honest, and so I’d like to see if he makes a run at it, and, you know, if so, we’ll definitely be trying to help him out.”

Robertson, who made a name for himself as a Christian reality star on the A&E series “Duck Dynasty” considers Jindal a good friend and recognized him for being the first Indian-American governor in the U.S.

He said the first time he met Jindal, he was amazed, not by his political skills but his preaching at a Louisiana church.

“[Jindal] stood up and preached. He wasn’t really political, he just told about his own relationship with the Lord. It was very impressive to us,” said Robertson. “I know the values he has… and that guy is one of the smartest persons I’ve ever known.”

Robertson attends the Church of Christ while Jindal is a Roman Catholic.

Jindal discussed his conversion to Christianity during the Iowa Faith in Freedom rally last month and called it the “most important moment” in his life.

“The single most important moment in my life is the moment I found Jesus Christ and the moment He found me,” said Jindal during the rally.

Jindal was raised as a Hindu and was received into the Catholic Church during his first year at Brown University.

Robertson appreciates Jindal’s conservative values and so do other Christian leaders such as Franklin Graham who recently applauded the Governor’s stance on gay marriage and religious freedom.

“I appreciate strong leaders like Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal who are defending religious freedoms in our nation,” said Graham in a Facebook post last month. “Unlike some other governors who have waffled on their positions and retreated, he says no matter how tough the opposition he will fight for passage of the Marriage and Conscience Act in this legislative session.”

Jindal told Breitbart News last month that he would make the decision whether or not he will run for president after the upcoming Louisiana legislative session which ends around the second week of June.

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‘It Was Either I Kill My Cousin or He Kills Me;’ 13-Year-Old Boy Shares Story of Being Forced to Fight for ISIS

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‘It Was Either I Kill My Cousin or He Kills Me;’ 13-Year-Old Boy Shares Story of Being Forced to Fight for ISIS

ISIS child executor (Photo: Screengrab/The Mirror)

Christian Post Report – A young boy reportedly executes an alleged Israeli spy in an ISIS propaganda video released by the Islamic State on March 10, 2015.

Two 13-year-old boys trained to fight for ISIS have reportedly been captured by al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, with one of them revealing that he was forced to fight his cousin for his life. ISIS is believed to have taken over 600 children in the Deir el Zor region in Syria, where the boys are from.

“Muslims are killing Muslims. My cousin is on the other side, so it was either I kill my cousin or he kills me,” one of the boys says in a video released by Jabhat al Nusra’s media wing on Wednesday.

The video shows the boys standing before an al-Qaeda flag, being questioned about their experiences fighting for ISIS.

Mujahid al Shami, the director of the opposition media campaign Deir el Zor Is Being Slaughtered Silently, said: “In Deir el Zor alone, there are more than 600 children who have been recruited into the Islamic State, and nearly 40 have been killed.”

International Business Times said that the majority of ISIS’ child soldiers have come from Deir el Zor and Raqqa, where the terror group has made its headquarters.

Iraqi parliament member Sheikh Shamo was quoted in a separate report on Wednesday as saying that ISIS is also forcing captured Yazidi children to become jihadist soldiers, and is brainwashing mentally handicapped boys into becoming suicide bombers.

“ISIS has established military training camps for the Yezidi children held by the group in the Syrian city of Raqqa and Tal Afar in Mosul,” Shamo said, according to The Daily Mail.

“Over the past months, many Yezidi women, children and elders managed to escape in various ways and have arrived in the Kurdistan region, but we still believe more than 3,000 Yezidis remain in the hands of ISIS,” he added.

ISIS’ jihadist training camps for children across Syria have been documented in a number of reports, with videos back in February showing children seemingly as young as five performing drills and obeying the militants’ commands. Other videos have shown children being taught to use guns, as well as observing and sometimes participating in brutalities such as beheadings and crucifixions carried out by ISIS members.

While a number of terror groups in the region have pledged their allegiance to ISIS, al-Qaeda remains on the sidelines, and has refused to follow ISIS’ leadership.

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Pregnant and Scorned: Dozens of Rape Survivors Rescued From Boko Haram Now Facing Harassment

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Pregnant and Scorned: Dozens of Rape Survivors Rescued From Boko Haram Now Facing Harassment

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    • A woman reflects while feeding her baby at a registration centre in Geidam stadium, Nigeria, May 6, 20Christian Post Report – 15. Niger has evacuated Nigerians living around Lake Chad, military and aid officials told Reuters on Tuesday, as the armies of four west African nations battle to quash the Islamist militants. A six-year insurgency by Boko Haram in Nigeria has seen thousands killed and displaced about Christian Post Report – 1.5 million people in the country. Nigerians who fled to the Nigerian border said they had been called out of their homes, lined up and brutally hurried out with no supplies. Some were picked up in trucks at the border town of Mainé-Soroa and taken to two camps in Geidam in Nigeria’s Yobe state, set up in a primary school and a small stadium. Others walked the whole way or got rides for part of the way.

    Dozens of rape survivors recently rescued from Boko Haram’s stronghold in the Sambisa Forest in Borno State, Nigeria, are said to be facing stigma and harassment as they reintegrate into their communities and human rights activists are calling on the Nigerian government to help them.

    Last month, 234 women and children were rescued from Islamic Militants in northeast Nigeria and sent to the Malkohi camp outside of Yola and at least 2Christian Post Report – 14 of them are now visibly pregnant. Several of the former hostages recently recalled their nightmarish ordeals which included being repeatedly raped by different men while in captivity. Some were forced to marry their attackers while many are unable to identify the fathers of their unborn babies.

    Instead of finding love and support in the communities from which they were abducted, however, the women have discovered that they are now social pariahs.

    Christian Post Report – 1.4em; font-size: Christian Post Report – 10pt;”>said she has heard many stories about the the challenges of reintegration. Christian Post Report – 1.4em; font-size: Christian Post Report – 10pt;”>A reported 677 women, most of whom were abducted in the past nine months, have been rescued from the terrorist group during raids by the Nigerian military and human rights activists are calling on the Nigerian government to help them reintegrate into their communities.

    “The Nigerian government and the state government has to come up with a comprehensive approach for how to reintegrate these girls and these women back into society,” pastor Laolu Akande, executive director of the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, recently told The Christian Post in a phone interview.

    He also called on Nigerians to welcome the women and children back into their communities instead of taunting and shunning them.

    “There has to be services (psychological, trauma, recovery, medical) to bring them back to the community in a very decent way,” he continued. “We also have a message to the communities to welcome these women back [and] to accept them.”

    According to Akande, children of rape surviviors are often born into complex circumstances making them ideal targets for terrorist recruitment.

    “It’s a very precarious situation to have somebody raped. Many people can’t decide how they’re going to raise that kind of a child,” he said. “You look at the child and then you remember the evil that was done to you, so [Boko Haram] were hoping that these children, who would be raised of these very nefarious pregnancies, not that anything is wrong with the children, but their plan and their strategy is to raise children that will continue their [evil].”

    Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno, the home state of Boko Haram, recently told government officials he was worried the 2Christian Post Report – 14 pregnant women recently rescued from Boko Haram will abandon the children once they are born.

    Christian Post Report – 1.4em; font-size: Christian Post Report – 10pt;”>. “Now, the problem is that these children could go to the streets unattended to; they then lack access to food, healthcare and education. The result is that they could indeed inherit their fathers’ (ideology) somehow.”

    Segun reportedly denounced Shettima’s comments as “very unfortunate.”

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    The Real War

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      Dr. Charles F. Stanley (File).

    The enemy’s primary strategy against the believer is deception. We learn from 2 Corinthians 11:14 that Satan often “disguises himself as an angel of light.” In fact, Jesus called him “the father of lies” (John 8:44). Thus, our best weapon is the truth, which sets us free from deception’s bondage (v. 32).

    It is hard to avoid deception when you are not aware of the adversary’s schemes (2 Corinthians 2:11). One of his oldest deceptions, which goes back to Adam and Eve, is the temptation to doubt what the Lord has said. To do so means to doubt God’s heart and character, which is similar to a soldier on the front line setting down his weapon as the enemy approaches—mistrusting God sets you up to be knocked down repeatedly by the evil one. If you listen to this voice of doubt, you give Satan a foothold. That will weaken you so that he can gear up to bring about further destruction.

    Another scheme of the devil is to distract the believer. A distraction is anything that drags you away from what is most important at the moment and makes you so busy that you lose focus. Satan doesn’t use just blatantly sinful or superficial things to divert us from abiding in Christ—he will even use good things to subtly build up a wall of “noise” around you so that you gradually stop listening to God’s voice.

    Ask the Lord to reveal any area in your life where you may be susceptible to deception. He will give you power to claim the truth and walk in freedom.

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    Religious Indifference On the Rise

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    Christian Post Report – An extensive study by the Pew Research Center has revealed that Christians are declining sharply in America in terms of population share, while the religiously unaffiliated are rising, and now make up a larger share than American Catholics. The rise of religious intermarriages was one trend linked to the growth of the unaffiliated.

    The report, which was released on Tuesday, stated: “The drop in the Christian share of the population has been driven mainly by declines among mainline Protestants and Catholics. Each of those large religious traditions has shrunk by approximately 3 percentage points since 2007. The evangelical Protestant share of the U.S. population also has dipped, but at a slower rate, falling by about 1 percentage point since 2007.”

    Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-declining-sharply-in-america-unaffiliated-rising-now-hold-greater-population-share-than-catholics-pew-study-reveals-139023/#yWhWbKdu6JOwjZtG.99

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    Can Obama Work With the Faith Community to Fight Poverty?

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    Christian Post Report – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spoke Tuesday about the importance of faith and family during a panel discussion for the Catholic-Evangelical Summit on Overcoming Poverty at Georgetown University.

    “Faith-based groups across the country and around the world understand the centrality and the importance of [poverty] in a intimate way — in part because these faith-based organizations are interacting with folks who are struggling and know how good these people are, and know their stories, and it’s not just theological, but it’s very concrete. They’re embedded in communities and they’re making a difference in all kinds of ways,” Obama said.

    The panel was moderated by The Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne and also included Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, and Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam.

    “When I think about my own Christian faith and my obligations,” Obama continued, “it is important for me to do what I can myself — individually mentoring young people, or making charitable donations, or in some ways impacting whatever circles and influence I have. But I also think it’s important to have a voice in the larger debate. And I think it would be powerful for our faith-based organizations to speak out on this in a more forceful fashion.”

    Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/obama-talks-importance-of-fathers-faith-at-catholic-evangelical-summit-on-overcoming-poverty-139041/#KcwDL4TuC3lS7xr8.99

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    Pope Francis Condemns ISIS, Boko Haram; Says Groups Persecuting Christians Don’t Know God

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    Pope Francis (Photo: Reuters/Tony Gentile)

    Christian Post Report – Pope Francis blesses the missal as he leads a mass on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian mass killings, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 12, 2015. Pope Francis on Sunday commemorated the 100th anniversary of the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians as “the first genocide of the 20th century,” words that could draw an angry reaction from Turkey.

    Pope Francis condemned the ongoing persecution of Christians by radical Islamic groups such as ISIS and Boko Haram Monday during Mass at the Vatican and said even though these groups believe they are serving God with their actions, they do not truly know Him.

    The Mass included a reading from John 16:2-3 where Jesus says “the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God. They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.”

    Francis followed the reading with his homily where he said there are some who “kill Christians in the name of God because they think they are infidels.” The Pontiff encouraged listeners to take heart by telling them how Jesus prophesied that His followers would be persecuted as He was and would suffer through tribulations.

    “But do not be scandalized,” said Francis. “The Holy Spirit will guide us and help us understand.”

    ISIS militants preparing to execute a group of Ethiop​i​an Christians in Libya in a video released on April 19, 2015. (Photo: Reuters video screencap)

    ISIS militants preparing to execute a group of Ethiop​i​an Christians in Libya in a video released on April 19, 2015.

    He also discussed the recent slaying of 21 Coptic Christians at the hands of ISIS militants in Libya.

    “I called to mind his faithful, who were slaughtered on the beach because they are Christians. Because of the strength given them by the Holy Spirit, they were not scandalized,” he said. “They died with the name of Jesus on their lips. This is the power of the Spirit. Witness. Martyrdom is the supreme witness.”

    ISIS militants beheaded the 21 Coptic Christians and released a video recording of their murders in February.

    Pope Francis is no stranger to hostility from ISIS either. Earlier this year, the radical Islamic group threatened his life according to Vatican police. They said they were not aware however of any specific plans to carry out an attack.

    In recent months, ISIS has made headlines for crucifying men such as robbers and adulterers. They also killed gay men by throwing them off the roofs of buildings. Members of the group have even gone as far as pretending to be homosexuals in order to expose other gays and kill them.

    Other reports point to ISIS chopping off children’s hands and burying them alive.

    Boko Haram, a group that has rebranded itself as an African counterpart of the Islamic State, kicked off 2015 by killing close to 2000 people in an attack on the town of Baga and surrounding villages in Borno State, Nigeria. Christian leaders in the community confirmed that several churches were burned down in the attack.

    The group has also abducted over 700 women within the last nine months. A reported 677 have been rescued by the Nigerian military from the militants in recent weeks.

    Late last month, 238 women and children were rescued in northeast Nigeria and at least 214 of them were visibly pregnant as a result of being repeatedly raped by Boko Haram.

    Boko (PHOTO: Courtesy – REUTERS/Boko Haram handout via Reuters TV)

    Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau speaks at an unknown location in this still image taken from an undated video released by Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram.

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    ‘Jesus Has Done the Work;’ Carl Lentz Urges Christians to ‘Occupy All Streets With the Light of the Gospel’

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    Christian Post Report – Carl Lentz presented at Passion Conference 2015.

    Hillsong NYC Pastor Carl Lentz wants Christians to “occupy all streets” with the light of the Gospel like Jesus did. “There should be no campus, there should be no prison, there should be no back alley, no ghetto, no village that has not heard the goodness of our God,” he says.

    Speaking at the debut of Passion Conference 2015 “a gathering of 18-25 year olds and their leaders,” hosted by Passion City Church in January, Lentz urged the young believers of the Gospel to take the Word of God to the streets like Jesus did in a recording of the event released this week via Air1.

    “Jesus has done the work, He saved our lives, and we have a pretty clear call, which is to shine,” said Lentz in the video. “I’ve called this message here this afternoon: occupy all streets.”

    The 36-year-old pastor, who leads Hillsong NYC with Hillsong United frontman Joel Houston, went on to explain the directive to “occupy all streets,” comparing it to Jesus’ example of “ministering to everybody.”

    “There were no streets that Jesus Christ did not impact,” Lentz continued. “If you were poor, Jesus was coming for you, if you were rich, Jesus was not afraid of you, if you were a leper, Jesus was laying down with you until you got well, if you were an outcast, Jesus spent his whole life reminding people that ‘I came for you.’ I believe in that same way, what is represented in this room is the ability for us to occupy all streets with the light of the Gospel.”

    Lentz further noted: “there should be no campus, there should be no prison, there should be no back alley, no ghetto, no village that has not heard the goodness of our God.”

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      Carl Lentz presented during Passion Conference 2015.
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      Carl Lentz presented during Passion Conference 2015.

    “If we can shine this light, we can see God do something in our lifetimes that we have yet to even imagine — occupy all streets,” he added.

    Lentz was joined at Passion 2015 by other popular Christian leaders including Passion City Church pastor Louie Giglio, pastor Matt Chandler of The Village Church, and Grammy Award-wining Christian hip-hop artist, Lecrae.

    The series of conferences are aimed at helping “a generation leverage their lives for what matters most,” according to the website. Over 20,000 university students attended the first Passion 2015 Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, and tickets to Passion 2016 are available for $139 through September.

    “To live in such a way that their journey on earth counts for what is most important in the end — for us at Passion, that’s the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to amplify His name in everything we do,” reads the Passion website.

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    Pope Francis Condemns ISIS, Boko Haram; Says Groups Persecuting Christians Don’t Know God

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    Pope Francis Condemns ISIS, Boko Haram; Says Groups Persecuting Christians Don’t Know God

    Pope Francis (Photo: Reuters/Tony Gentile)

    Christian Post Report – Pope Francis blesses the missal as he leads a mass on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian mass killings, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 12, 2015. Pope Francis on Sunday commemorated the 100th anniversary of the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians as “the first genocide of the 20th century,” words that could draw an angry reaction from Turkey.

    Pope Francis condemned the ongoing persecution of Christians by radical Islamic groups such as ISIS and Boko Haram Monday during Mass at the Vatican and said even though these groups believe they are serving God with their actions, they do not truly know Him.

    The Mass included a reading from John 16:2-3 where Jesus says “the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God. They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.”

    Francis followed the reading with his homily where he said there are some who “kill Christians in the name of God because they think they are infidels.” The Pontiff encouraged listeners to take heart by telling them how Jesus prophesied that His followers would be persecuted as He was and would suffer through tribulations.

    “But do not be scandalized,” said Francis. “The Holy Spirit will guide us and help us understand.”

    ISIS militants preparing to execute a group of Ethiop​i​an Christians in Libya in a video released on April 19, 2015. (Photo: Reuters video screencap)

    ISIS militants preparing to execute a group of Ethiop​i​an Christians in Libya in a video released on April 19, 2015.

    He also discussed the recent slaying of 21 Coptic Christians at the hands of ISIS militants in Libya.

    “I called to mind his faithful, who were slaughtered on the beach because they are Christians. Because of the strength given them by the Holy Spirit, they were not scandalized,” he said. “They died with the name of Jesus on their lips. This is the power of the Spirit. Witness. Martyrdom is the supreme witness.”

    ISIS militants beheaded the 21 Coptic Christians and released a video recording of their murders in February.

    Pope Francis is no stranger to hostility from ISIS either. Earlier this year, the radical Islamic group threatened his life according to Vatican police. They said they were not aware however of any specific plans to carry out an attack.

    In recent months, ISIS has made headlines for crucifying men such as robbers and adulterers. They also killed gay men by throwing them off the roofs of buildings. Members of the group have even gone as far as pretending to be homosexuals in order to expose other gays and kill them.

    Other reports point to ISIS chopping off children’s hands and burying them alive.

    Boko Haram, a group that has rebranded itself as an African counterpart of the Islamic State, kicked off 2015 by killing close to 2000 people in an attack on the town of Baga and surrounding villages in Borno State, Nigeria. Christian leaders in the community confirmed that several churches were burned down in the attack.

    The group has also abducted over 700 women within the last nine months. A reported 677 have been rescued by the Nigerian military from the militants in recent weeks.

    Late last month, 238 women and children were rescued in northeast Nigeria and at least 214 of them were visibly pregnant as a result of being repeatedly raped by Boko Haram.

    Boko (PHOTO: Courtesy – REUTERS/Boko Haram handout via Reuters TV)

    Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau speaks at an unknown location in this still image taken from an undated video released by Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram.

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    Iraq Claims ISIS’ Second-In-Command Killed in Coalition-Led Airstrike on Mosque, US Denies Attack

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    Iraq Claims ISIS’ Second-In-Command Killed in Coalition-Led Airstrike on Mosque, US Denies Attack

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    Christian Post Report – Members of the Iraqi security forces and Shi’ite fighters fire a rocket, during clashes with Islamic State militants in the town of Tal Ksaiba, near the town of al-Alam, March 7, 2015. Iraqi security forces and Shi’ite militia fighters struggled to advance on Saturday into the two towns of al-Alam and al-Dour near Tikrit, their progress slowed by fierce defence from Islamic State militants.

    The Iraqi Ministry of Defence released video footage on Thursday showing what it claims is U.S.-led airstrikes in northern Iraq that targeted a mosque and killed Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed, the man believed to be the second-in-command of terror group ISIS.

    Iraqi spokesman Brig-Gen Tahsin Ibrahim said that Mohammed, also known by other names, was at a mosque near Tal Afar when it was hit by airstrikes, BBC News reported.

    “Based on accurate intelligence, an airstrike by the coalition forces targeted the second in command of IS, Abu Alaa al-Badri,” the Iraqi Defence Ministry said in a statement.

    American military officials have denied that coalition planes took part in any such attack, however, and there is no way to indepednetly confirm Mohammed’s reported death.

    Ibrahim insisted, however, that Mohammed was killed alongside dozens of other ISIS militants at the al-Shuhada mosque in the village of al-Iyadhiya. Tal Afar, located in the Nineveh province, was captured by ISIS back in June 2014.

    The Governor of Nineveh, Atheel al-Nujaifi, reportedly told the BBC that his sources also confirmed that Mohammed was killed.

    The terror group has seized a number of cities across Iraq and Syria, but has been heavily targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes seeking to aid local ground troops in their fight against the jihadists.

    Also known as Abu Alaa al-Afari, the man believed to be ISIS’ second-in-command, was heavily sought after by coalition forces, with a U.S. $7 million bounty on his head.

    The fate of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi also remains unclear. Reports emerged in late April that the jihadist leader may have been seriously injured during another airstrike operation, and several reports said that ISIS has already chosen another man, a former Iraqi physics teacher, as his replacement.

    Hisham al Hashimi, an Iraqi government adviser, said in an interview in April that Abu Alaa Afri has been chosen by ISIS’ leadership to take over Baghdadi’s duties, if the latter succumbs to his injuries.

    “After Baghdadi’s wounding, he [Afri] has begun to head up Daesh [arabic term for ISIS] with the help of officials responsible for other portfolios,” Hashimi said. “He will be the leader of Daesh if Baghdadi dies.”

    Baghdadi has not reemerged since the reports appeared, but U.S. forces have been unable to confirm one way or another if he is alive or not.

    Source : Christian Post

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