IT TAKES HARD MEN TO BRING SOFT ICE CREAM TO THE CALIPHATE: Just In Time For Summer, Step Inside The Isis Ice Cream Shop:

Like a stranger luring a kid into a car with a candy bar, ISIS has previously touted its sweet treats in its recruitment efforts. “If you were worried about leaving behind your local Costa Coffee then you will be happy to know that the Caliphate serves some of the best lattes and cappuccinos around,” British ISIS member Abu Rumaysah al-Britani wrote in May’s A Brief Guide to the Islamic State. For the jihadi sweet tooth, he noted, ISIS ice cream is “fluffy, velvety and sweet” and “Snickers, Kit Kat, Bounty, Twix, Kinder Surprise, Cadburys — yes, yes we have it all.” Yesterday, ISIS released photos of ice cream and smoothies being served in Iraq’s Kirkuk province.

Huh. I thought ISIS didn’t like decadent Western consumer entertainment products. So to review, synthesizers and drum kits no, Snickers, Kit Kat, Bounty, Twix, Kinder Surprise, Cadburys, yes! Ooooohkaaaaay.

RELATED: Don’t miss the photo of the woman working inside a Rossi’s Ice Cream truck in England atop Mark Steyn’s new post on “Going with the Flow.” “That’s a British ‘ice-cream lady’ of the 21st century,” Mark notes. “At a certain level, it’s ridiculous serving 99s and raspberry ripples in a burqa. But at another, far more important level, it’s not in the least bit ridiculous: it’s telling you that these guys mean it — and they’ve figured out that you don’t.”