(by Roberta Preziosa) Last 12 June, the forces of the Inerent Resolve coalition, fighting in Syria the Syrian-Iraqi Islamic state, declared (US Department of Defense) to have destroyed a drug depot belonging to ISIS.
The facts date back to May 31, when in southern Syria, 34 miles from At Tanf, during the anti-ISIS operations, the large drug deposit was discovered whose market value was valued at $ 1,4 million. More than 300.000 pills of Captagon, an amphetamine-based, also called the drug of the "jiihadists", were seized in the warehouse. The Captagon is not new on the market, it was recently seized in Genoa, but it was already widespread in the Middle East, in Saudi Arabia where in 2015 22 million pills were seized (Corriere della Sera) and two tons in Lebanon.
The jiihadists make extensive use of it for their criminal actions in the same way as the Nazis during the Second World War. The difference is in the alleged religious purity boasted by members of ISIS which has no bearing on reality. "Alcohol, drugs and gambling are Satan's business, try to avoid them, because their purpose is to create hatred and enmity between you and make you forget the presence and prayer of ALLAH", This is a surah of the Qur'an.
ISIS members use drugs extensively, without them they are unable to sustain either thought or action. ISIS, in fact, makes its followers work against the prescriptions of the Koran, thus revealing itself as unorthodox of the Islamic purity required by the Prophet. Religious thought in general cannot refer to individuals who use drugs.
Fundamentalism has disappeared and with it the fundamentalism of the movement.
The ISIS, born of one of the 1999 inmates condemned by the Jordanian government, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, founder of the black flag, symbol of the movement, had a bad epilogue, the members turned from terrorists into drug addicts, a sunset perhaps not immediately predictable, but certainly not unexpected.