Posted on 09/05/2014 6:00:58 PM PDT by markomalley
France is grappling with its home-grown ‘jihadi’ threat as a number of radicalised youth are leaving to fight in Syria and Iraq, alongside extremists.
On Wednesday, an alleged ‘jihadi’ was caught in Turkey with his two-year-old daughter. A 16-year-old girl, suspected of trying to join Islamist rebels in Syria was arrested at the Nice airport along with her alleged recruiter, a 22-year old Chechen man.
Last week, Russian television showed an interview of former soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and elsewhere, fighting in East Ukraine with pro-Russian rebels. 900 French citizens have traveled to Syria and Iraq since 2012, according to official estimates. The French interior ministry runs a hotline for families of radicalised youth and put special anti-terror measures in place in April allowing authorities to restrict travel and seize passports of suspects.
A bill to further toughen anti-terror laws will be discussed in the French parliament in September. French authorities also plan to crack down heavily on the Internet and social media where most of the 'jihadi' propaganda circulates.
International consultant and terror expert, Jean-Charles Brisard, told HT that even though there have been departures to conflict zones such as Afghanistan and Bosnia in the past, the number of radicalised French leaving to fight with extremists is the highest ever now. “What’s also new is that a lot of women are leaving alone and the highest number (about 150) is from France. Earlier, women only accompanied men who left Europe with their families to wage jihad”.
Russian news agency Rossia Segodnia recently did a survey claiming 16% of French supported the Islamic state, higher than British citizens (7%) and Germans (2%). France has the largest population of Muslims in Europe and many consider laws such as the headscarf and burqa bans repressive.
Nope. Just don’t see the attraction.
They are following in the footsteps of their prophet- the founder of their religion. Rape, sexual violence, brutal murder and genocide, thievery, is how they got started.
These European countries should offer free travel to these supporters of Islamic State to join their brothers in Syria or Iraq.
Then we could have all of them in one place and make eliminating them from the gene pool all that much easier.
The French would welcome anybody into their country - even if they hate the French way of life...I doubt Burkas and nude beaches can co-exsist.
I saw a Youtube interview of a French atheist, formerly Muslim. She described how the French ban on the hijab wasn’t just a matter of controlling the political expression, because many moderate Muslim nations didn’t have burkas and strict hijab.
It was also a matter of protecting women, Muslim or not. Islam considers women in Hijab marked as pious and religious, not to be raped. If Muslim women start covering up, it marks them as safe while suggesting to Muslim men that all the other women are fair game. It also intimidates women who wear a light head scarf that they aren’t religious enough, you need MORE protective clothing - while implying outside isn’t safe for women, stay home.
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