The ISIS Extremists Causing Havoc in Iraq Are Getting Funds and Recruits From Southeast Asia

Time ^ | June 17, 2014 | Yenni Kwok

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Militants from Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, are being lured by ISIS's hard-line Sunni extremism.

Men in balaclavas are cradling Kalashnikovs as they look into a camera, somewhere in Syria. They are university students, businessmen, former soldiers and even teenagers. One by one, they urge their fellow countrymen to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the jihadist group so extreme that it has been denounced by al-Qaeda. But these aren’t Syrians, or Uzbeks, or Chechens. They are Indonesian.

“Let us fight in the path of Allah because it is our duty to do jihad in the path of Allah … especially here in Sham [the Syrian region] … and because, God willing, it will be to this country that our families will do the holy migration,” says one in Bahasa Indonesia peppered with Arabic phrases....

[shalom aleichem]

ISIS was trained in Syrian by Americans!

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From the article: A Malaysian security official said more than 20 Malaysians are known to have entered Syria to fight Bashar Assad’s regime.

They flew in on MH370?

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Presumably fighter from Indonesia would have to transit through Turkey. Turkey is supporting Syrian rebels. Where does Turkey stand with respect to ISIL in Iraq? Do they draw a distinction? Do they even care?

The Turk ruled the Ottoman Empire, a fact they take much pride (read arrogance) in. If the end game of all this chaos might be a renewed caliphate might Turkey see themselves (with a huge military) holding great sway, if not total control?

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This was recently posted in some other thread. ISIS-promoting video. Pretty crazy/graphic.

https://ia801509.us.archive.org/18/items/al_saleel_4/SaleelSawarim.mp4

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" Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the jihadist group so extreme that it has been denounced by al-Qaeda. "

I keep seeing this claim made over and over again by the liberal left wing press, but I have yet to see a creditable source.

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In contrast, in late April, Malaysia arrested 10 militants — eight men and two women — who planned to travel to Syria to take part in the war. In March, Singapore said it was investigating the departure of a national to join the Syrian jihad.

Emboldened by Indonesia’s more tolerant attitude, ISIS supporters there have become more visible and openly solicit funds. They held a collection in February at an Islamic state university on the outskirts of Jakarta and held a rally in the capital’s central business district in March.

interesting. And an aircraft disappeared March 8.

[SunkenCiv]

> They are university students, businessmen, former soldiers and even teenagers. One by one, they urge their fellow countrymen to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the jihadist group so extreme that it has been denounced by al-Qaeda. But these aren’t Syrians, or Uzbeks, or Chechens. They are Indonesian.

Ignore the idiotic agitprop on the thread.