Now personally I don't give the proverbial two ****s who goes to Syria, let everyone who has a death wish **** off and live there but please, family members and friends of people who do go there, do me a favour and stop talking ****e. Aye, doubtless they were simply having a big family game of Treasure Hunt and something's gone awry.
Maybe it was one of those Time Share scams? Dear Mr Abdul Mannan you have been selected for a Timeshare presentation, If you give us 2 hours of your time to listen to our "no pressure" presentation regarding new holiday developments in Damascus, you will automatically qualify for a free 2 weeks all expenses paid Holiday in Syria.
They look a nice family anyway. You'd be well up for a ppopping over theirs at Christmas, wouldn't be dreading that visit at all.
I quite like the concept of the caliphate. I think the idea that certain individuals of the Islamic faith want to live in the Islamic State is really nice, considering they share a lot of interests and hobbies like beheading infidels and throwing homosexuals off of roofs. And, once they've all congregated in the territory of the caliphate, the US, the UK, France, Russia, China and India should pool all their nuclear warheads together and drop them on the Islamic State. We'd get rid of ISIS and get rid of all those nukes we have lying around. Two birds...
I looked at this thread expecting a discussion about the Crash Test Dummies song, all I got was the Dummies.