Oregon folk singer James Twyman to sing songs to ISIS militants to reform them

#JamesTwyman #ISIS #Oregon James Twyman, of Portland, Oregon, has plans to sing songs to ISIS militants in Syria to reform them. He plans to leave next week to serenade the Islamic State, and his fond wish is to bring the black-clad barbarians a prayerful message of peace. He wants to go ahead with his plans in spite of a warning from the State Department that his life could be in danger.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 13 January 2016.

In his opinion, he feels a "calling" and believes that he can soften the hearts of the Islamist army who are known for atrocities like beheading Westerners, throwing gays off off buildings and summarily executing innocent women and children.
Twyman would leave on Jan. 20 and halt in Italy before heading to Israel from where he would cross over the northern border shared with Syria and end up in a small Druze village. That village, Majdal Shams, is occupied by Israel and, Twyman has contacts there who would be trying to set up a venue in ISIS-controlled territory - his show is set for Jan. 31.
James Twyman, the author and self-styled “Peace Troubadour”, has put traditional prayers from various faiths to song. Incidentally, he is not new to such activities. He had performed in Baghdad in the late 1990s after Operation Desert Storm, in Bosnia and Croatia during the Balkan War in 1995 and has even performed earlier in Syria to spread his message of peace through song.

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