WE'RE ALL GOING ON A SUNNI HOLIDAY
Islamic State offering HONEYMOON bus tours across Syria and Iraq after opening ‘marriage bureau’ for women looking to marry the jihadist of their dreams
Extremist Islamists may well have wondered how they could possibly celebrate the happiest day of their lives - their wedding - while at the same time re-affirming their commitment to violent jihad.
Or they may not have. In any case, the gap in the market has now been filled by the Islamic State, which is offering honeymoon bus tours across its self-declared caliphate spanning Iraq and Syria.
The move into tourism comes after the group, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, opened a marriage bureau for women who want to meet the jihadi of their dreams.
The matchmaking service is operating from Al-Bab, in Syria's Aleppo province, for 'single women and widows who would like to marry IS fighters,' said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
According to the monitoring group, run out of Coventry, UK, residents report that women were invited to leave their details 'and IS fighters will coming knocking at the door and officially ask for marriage'.
Newlywed couples can then join other civilians on Islamic State's bus tours around the various parts of the newly declared Muslim theocracy.
Running twice a week from Raqa in Syria to Anbar, Iraq, IS buses fly the group's distinctive black flag and play jihadist songs throughout the journey.
It is not known whether tourists are invited to sing along. Illicit holiday romances are unlikely to be tolerated: the group advocates public stoning for adultery.
With a nod to the DailyMail for the write up, don't mean to offend anyone but all I had to work with was an old toy bus that sits in my draw in the office, a bit of imagination and the help of photoshop (see the original photo in extra).
Why I have the bus in the first place? it was a Valentine Present from dearest a few years ago because I was telling her that we use to be picked up for school in a very similar type when we lived in Cyprus.....not that I'm that old, honest, less rust in a hot climate perhaps!
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