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Families torn apart as Western girls join Islamist cause
Reuters ^ | October 9, 2014 | BY NICHOLAS VINOCUR AND PAULINE MEVEL

Posted on 10/09/2014 9:48:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Foad, a French truck driver of Moroccan origin, traveled alone through Syria to rescue his 15-year-old sister from an Islamist group she said was holding her captive. But when they finally stood face to face, in tears, she would not leave.

Foad is convinced that his sister Nora, whom he described as an impressionable teen who loved Disney movies before leaving for Syria one afternoon in January, stayed on because she was threatened with execution by the French-speaking commander, or emir, of the group she joined.

The former high school student is among dozens of European girls, many of them her age, living with such groups in Syria. It is an aspect of the conflict that is beginning to worry European governments previously more focused on the flow of young men to join the ranks of Islamic State and others.

Many of the youngest girls are lured with promises of humanitarian work. It is only once in Syria that they discover their fate: forced marriage to a fighter, strict adherence to Islamic law, a life under surveillance and little hope of returning home, say parents, relatives and radicalization experts.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: caliphate; islam; muslim; syria
Religion of peace.
1 posted on 10/09/2014 9:48:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How could these girls not know who and what ISIS is all about? Are they that much into clothes and fashion? Or did they allow themselves to be pulled into compliance by the smile of a so called boyfriend? One thing leads into the other.


2 posted on 10/09/2014 9:53:09 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s “western” about these girls except the fact that their parents took them there?

Welcome to your world, kids. This is the Nirvana you were screaming about on the streets of Paris and Brussels.

Live with it.


3 posted on 10/09/2014 9:54:01 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Like the "Hotel California', you can check out but you can never leave.
4 posted on 10/09/2014 9:55:51 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Many of the youngest girls are lured with promises of humanitarian work.

How did a fifteen year old get the money for a plane ticket and manage to leave the country?

When I traveled internationally I had to have permission from my parents. Of course this was back in the dark ages. How did she get a visa for Syria?

5 posted on 10/09/2014 9:58:00 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think more European Muzzies should go to Syria, that’s one way to get them out of Europe.


6 posted on 10/09/2014 9:58:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This story add some credence to what my nephew told me a couple days ago. He said there were 100 British youth stuck in Turkey.
Seems they came to join ISIS and were so disappointed that they wanted to go back 'home.' He said the British government will not let them back in. I hope it's true.
7 posted on 10/09/2014 10:03:21 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

**Moroccan origin**

Since when is Moroccan Western?


8 posted on 10/09/2014 10:04:28 AM PDT by Gamecock (USA, Ret.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are not “Western girls.” They are Moslems. Don’t think of them in the same way you might think of the daughters of your neighbors. They are utterly alien.


9 posted on 10/09/2014 10:04:42 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
There are young people whose ‘education’ has been SO neglected and whose understanding of politics is SO skewed that ANYTHING anti-West or anti-American is intoxicating and irresistible to them.

The MSM has so completely done its job of smearing the west and the US that these people are an easy mark for ANYONE who wants to de rail their lives.

In this case, it is Islam... (It used to be Communism.)

The corruption and dismantling of established western traditions has made these young people very vulnerable.

That their families did not/do not see what is happening, is incredible. When adults buy into BS Liberal politics, and when this goes on for decades... their children will pay the price.

10 posted on 10/09/2014 10:09:46 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re not “Western girls.” They are middle eastern girls LIVING in a civilized country. They don’t belong there. They should have been expelled a long time ago.


11 posted on 10/09/2014 10:12:23 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

among dozens of European girls,....Jeez, European, English, American youths? Say what they ARRRRRE for once. MUZZIES!!


12 posted on 10/09/2014 10:12:58 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Say goodbye to your clitoris ladies.


13 posted on 10/09/2014 10:15:53 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Have you ever noticed that the white women wearing the burqas are usually overweight and attractive?

There was this FAT girl from my home town (very conservative Christian family). She married a Muslim man who beat her so much she finally divorced him.

Shortly afterwards, she met some other Muslim guy from Africa, flew out to Africa to meet him, and then got pregnant!


14 posted on 10/09/2014 10:17:55 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I read the article, and I saw no mention of any of the Western girls mentioned in the headline. Just some Arabs.


15 posted on 10/09/2014 10:33:17 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

European passport holders travel freely anywhere.


16 posted on 10/09/2014 10:39:45 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (Go, Cruz! Go!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Foad - name or acronym?


17 posted on 10/09/2014 10:45:37 AM PDT by beelzepug (You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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To: beelzepug
Is this a place to vote? I'll take acronym.
18 posted on 10/09/2014 10:51:12 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They say "western" like they are born and raised in a civilized country instead of being immigrants or children of immigrants.

This is what cultural diversity get you. When the family sticks to the ways of the "old country".

19 posted on 10/09/2014 11:24:03 AM PDT by pfflier
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