FOX News: No place like home: Western jihadists decry Islamic State’s lack of beauty salons, Starbucks, good food
Westerners who left their homelands for a new life in the Islamic State caliphate seem to have taken at least one tradition with them: airing their gripes on social media.
Complaints about the life under ISIS tracked by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which analyzed social media sent from inside the so-called caliphate, focus on Western defectors' finding a severe lack of creature comforts. No Starbucks, rude help at beauty salons, lousy restaurants, slow Internet and bad cellphone service are among the common complaints that paint life under the terrorist organization as uncomfortable, even for Westerners who signed up to live among bloodthirsty killers.
WNU Editor: This reminds me of the old Soviet Union. Everyone in public was praising the socialist model .... but behind closed doors .... wow .... a totally different story.
Only it's not like the Soviet Union you knew, exactly. (Well, unless you're much older than I think...) It's more like if some foreign communists traveled to Russia in 1917-1920 to take part in building a brand new way of life... and whined in private about their privations. I'm sure that must have happened though, they just didn't have the Internet there.
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