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Austrian Teenagers Who Joined ISIS Now Regret the Move
National Review ^ | October 10, 2014 | Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 10/11/2014 10:30:38 AM PDT by grundle

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To: alloysteel

The poster was making a joke, a very clever, albeit subtle one, at that!


61 posted on 10/11/2014 2:26:58 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: nuconvert
"They won’t be able to ‘flee’ anywhere & live to tell about it'

I expect their comrades to graciously return them to their parents.



One piece at a time.
62 posted on 10/11/2014 3:13:30 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: cripplecreek
Well do they speak Australian or do they speak Austrian?

That was mean. LoL

63 posted on 10/11/2014 4:36:56 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: LambSlave

They left Austria to get away from the kangaroos...kicked by a kangaroo one time too often.


64 posted on 10/11/2014 5:14:06 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: alloysteel
My guess, from their surnames, is that their families are from Bosnia--either refugees because of the war or immigrants to Austria for economic reasons.

There were lots of Yugoslav immigrants in Austria even when Tito was alive. I was in Vienna in 1979 and remember seeing an anti-Yugoslav graffito in a Catholic church (the Votivkirche) to the effect of "go home, scum, you aren't wanted here." That would probably have been directed at Croatian or Slovene guest-workers rather than Muslims (who wouldn't be likely to visit a church). I figured it had to do with German anti-Slav attitudes or just general anti-foreigner sentiments.

65 posted on 10/11/2014 5:21:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Kangaroos in Austria? Austria is in Europe...I didn’t think kangaroos lived in Austria?

Seriously....don’t you mean Australia?


66 posted on 10/11/2014 5:28:59 PM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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To: grundle

I told my boys from a very young age, there are somethings that an “I’m’ sorry” won’t fix so they should think before they did stupid things.

All kids do stupid things, but some you can’t take back. Too bad for these young women, but they did a stupid thing they will have to live with forever.

Maybe other parents of teenagers can use their story as an example of stupid things you can’t take back.


67 posted on 10/11/2014 5:52:02 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: Kackikat

Austrians say that foreigners get their country mixed up with Australia. There aren’t any kangaroos in Austria, unless there are some in the Vienna zoo.


68 posted on 10/11/2014 7:45:42 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Chuckster
Close. But the real story is that westerners simply cannot fathom someone taking religion so seriously that they would kill, or even die over it.

Close. I think there are plenty of examples of Christians ,Jews, Muslims dying for their religions.
When it comes to killing for their religions sake, Muslims are the problem.-Tom

69 posted on 10/11/2014 7:54:51 PM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: grundle
Stupid (not ignorant) teens.
very hard, hard lessons learnt.. not likely survivable.

70 posted on 10/11/2014 8:19:49 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...Pres. E'Bola/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: navyblue
I read some of the “let them rot in their hell” comments on here and wonder if some of you have never been fifteen years old.

I'm with you. Possible that these girls will turn out to be better people than those adults here making their barbaric comments, if the girls can escape from their unfortunate self-imposed predicament.

71 posted on 10/11/2014 8:26:50 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86

These girls joined a murderous cult whose stated goal is to kill all non-believers. It is a cult that has brutally killed scores of innocent men, women, and children and prisoners of war. The girls knew this and were compelled to join that movement, probably inspired by grizzly videos on YouTube.

They are no different than the young women who joined Charles Manson’s cult. They joined a conspiracy to murder innocent people. As I recall, Manson’s women received the death penalty, and to this day are serving life sentences.

I for one would never feel comfortable living next to jihadis who left their home and country to murder innocent people. Would you?


72 posted on 10/12/2014 5:38:02 AM PDT by BigBobber (`)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Yep....it was sort of funny.


73 posted on 10/12/2014 10:36:01 AM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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To: Hugin

Interesting concept, but Latin is still not enough....Spanish is based on Latin but so is Italian as well, but i doubt the conversations would be complete without a little help.


74 posted on 10/12/2014 10:38:48 AM PDT by Kackikat (Two wrongs do NOT make a right.... unless you are a Democrat!)
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To: grundle
Samra Kesinovic, 17, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, are believed to be married, pregnant and living in the Islamic State-controlled city of Raqqa in northern Syria,

Every age and generation needs a few volunteers to show and tell the rest why something is a bad idea, just in case there was any doubt.

Wow, these two girls have raised that bar and given the rest of us an example of some rare, truly inspired over-achieving "Stupid Girl" as only young teenagers are capable of.

May their story go viral so there won't be any more like them...for a while.

75 posted on 10/12/2014 11:18:24 AM PDT by GBA (Hick with a keyboard)
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