Posted on 06/17/2014 3:46:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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 arent 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....
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ISIS was trained in Syrian by Americans!
They flew in on MH370?
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?
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.
Emboldened by Indonesias 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 capitals central business district in March.
interesting. And an aircraft disappeared March 8.
> 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 arent Syrians, or Uzbeks, or Chechens. They are Indonesian.
Ignore the idiotic agitprop on the thread.
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