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Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) said Muslims who leave the territory ISIL controls are abandoning Islam and committing a “major sin.”

The refugees, mostly from ISIL-controlled regions in Syria, Iraq and Libya who are fleeing to Europe are committing sin by exposing their children to atheism, drugs, alcohol and sexual permissiveness, according to Dabiq, a magazine published by ISIL jihadists.

“It should be known that voluntarily leaving Drul-Islm (lands of Islam) for drul-kufr (land of unbelievers) is a dangerous major sin, as it is a passage towards kufr (disbelief) and a gate towards one’s children and grandchildren abandoning Islam for Christianity, atheism, or liberalism,” the magazine said.

Thousands of refugees have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe on flimsy boats that have sometimes capsized, killing hundreds, in one of the biggest waves of migration since World War II.

“Sadly, some Syrians and Libyans are willing to risk the lives and souls of … their children, sacrificing many of them during the dangerous trip to the lands of the war-waging crusaders ruled by the laws of atheism and indecency,” Dabiq said.

The magazine added that migrating to Christian lands exposed children or grandchildren to “the constant threat of fornication, sodomy, drugs, and alcohol.”

“If they don’t fall into sin, they will forget the language of the Koran — Arabic — which they were surrounded by in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and elsewhere, making the return to the religion and its teachings more difficult.”

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