'STOP ISIS Terror' Sign
A Kurdish protester sits behind a sign reading " STOP ISIS terror" in front of the United Nations headquarters in Vienna October 9, 2014. A group of Kurdish people living in Austria are on hunger strike since Monday in solidarity for Syrian Kurds who are fighting to defend the Syrian-Turkey border town of Kobane from Islamic State militants. Reuters/Leonhard Foeger

The airstrikes of the U.S.-led coalition may be derailing some of its efforts, but there's hardly no stopping the radical extremist ISIS, at least in its bailiwick Raqqa in Syria. A video report by CNN tried to depict how the normal, everyday life goes there. Only that it is really not so normal at all.

Raqqa has become the ISIS's home base or capital. It is where it practices the administration of its caliphate government. As such, breakers of the laws there face grim consequences.

The video report showed the bodies of the Syrian National troops lying on the sidewalk in Raqqa. Their heads have been chopped off. But the blood-hungry radicals didn't stop there. They perched the heads into the spikes on top of the fences lining the government buildings. It would be impossible for anyone not to see them. However, that is actually the purpose of the ISIS - for people to see the heads and realise what looms if they do not heed the words of the group.

The CNN report also depicted how the underground opposition works against the ISIS in Raqqa. Clad in black and moving in pitch darkness, they send anti-ISIS messages via graffiti on walls around the city. The video also showed a certain night where ISIS fighters held a recruitment fair targeting only children. A table was shown adorned with colourful looking toys in plastic wrappers, an obvious ploy to entice the children, never mind if they don't know what take up arms and fight really mean like. That night's jihadi speaker told the audience those who do not join the cause to fight for "god" will be killed.

The ISIS is well-known for its barbaric beheadings. In July, it chopped off the heads of more than opposition fighters and perched them on poles in northern Raqqa. Then there was American journalist James Foley whose beheading was put on like a show on camera. Three others came up after Foley, still all televised beheadings.

The barbaric offense angered the U.S. and its allies. The coalition retaliated with a slew of airstrikes. The activist Syrian Observatory for Human Rights group has noted that the airstrikes have slowly reduced the number of ISIS fighters.

The disturbing video can be viewed here but watch at your own risk.

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