Posted on 05/07/2015 6:32:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
CONFRONTING THE ‘CALIPHATE’|This is part of an occasional series about the rise of the Islamic State militant group, its implications for the Middle East, and efforts by the U.S. government and others to undermine it.
She was a redheaded rebel, the singer in the family, a trash-talking, tattooed 21-year-old wrapped up in a hip-hop dream of becoming Holland’s Eminem. Then Betsy found Allah.
After her sudden conversion to Islam last summer, Betsy — a name given by her family to protect her identity — began dressing in full Muslim robes. By January, the once-agnostic Dutch woman, raised in a home where the only sign of religion was a dusty Bible on a shelf, began defending homegrown terrorists. A feud with her father over her apparent radicalization prompted her to leave home — turning up days later, her parents and Dutch authorities now say, in Syria, where she would become the bride of an Islamic State fighter.
She also became part of a growing crisis in Europe, where a surging number of young people from non-Muslim homes are flocking to the Middle East to heed the call of violent jihad. It is happening, terror experts say, as converts emerge as some of the most dangerous and fanatical adherents to radical Islam — a fact driven home this week by Elton Simpson, a 30-year-old American convert who joined one other man in opening fire on a Garland, Tex., contest for cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
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> Only here’s a thought: Societies that condone polygamy always have had a surplus of womanless young males. Turning them into cannon fodder is a time-tested strategy used by the ruling Alpha-male class. Why is ISIS any different?
Oh the left acts like they love Islam and ISIS....that is until they start using the gays as mortars to reign down on the battlefield from the huge surplus they’re going to have of them. They need to be efficient, right?
Hillary is all over the map?
The e-mos of this generation are going jihad for attention - a suicide cult of abuse. Darwinian.
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