#MyJihad in France: French arrest four Muslims for misunderstanding Islam, trying to join jihadists abroad

What? Didn't these guys see Hamas-linked CAIR's ads telling them that jihad was all about going down to the malt shoppe for chocolate shake?

"French arrest 4 in Paris thought to be linked to Islamist extremists," from the Associated Press, February 6 (thanks to all who sent this in):

PARIS // French authorities detained four people yesterday in a counterterrorism operation targeting those suspected of trying to join Islamist extremists abroad.

The raid in the Paris region comes amid fears that European extremists who once joined militant groups in Afghanistan or Iraq are now joining rebel fighters in the civil war in Syria and the conflict in Mali.

The Paris prosecutor's office said the four people were detained in yesterday's operation as part of an investigation into a French-Malian man arrested around the Mali-Niger border last year.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls said the operation targeted those seeking to join foreign fighters in the Mali region, and that French authorities are monitoring several cells or networks suspected of sending fighters abroad.

He said a "handful" of French militants are in the region around Mali, which France fears could become a haven for international terrorists. The French military launched a military intervention in Mali last month targeting Al-Qaeda-linked militants. The militants had seized power in the north last year and imposed harsh Islamic rule on residents, and then started advancing toward the capital. Other African countries are also taking part in the military intervention.

French authorities fear retaliatory attacks by those linked to the militants targeted in the Mali operation.

Meanwhile, French authorities say French extremists are also trying to join fighters in Syria, where anti-government forces are resisting a crackdown by President Bashar Al Assad's military. France has sided with the Syrian political opposition, saying Mr Al Assad has lost his legitimacy, but is trying to suppress any French people who seek to use the war in Syria to push extremist goals.

"Several dozen French people or French residents have already gone to Syria, often in groups controlled by Al Qaeda, and there are also some individuals who want to go to the Sahel, so we have to prevent them, arrest them and neutralise them," Mr Valls said.

The arrests were part of the investigation into Ibrahim Ouattara, a 24-year-old from the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers, the Paris prosecutor's office said. Mr Outtara, a dual French-Malian national, was arrested in November. He has a history of trips to regions where Islamist militants are active, including countries such as Yemen and Somalia....

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A week ago the French arrested accomplices of jihadi Md.Merah,who killed jewish children & a Rabbi.
Now they arrest jihadis on the move.
Seems the French are on the roll.
God bless the French.

you allow Muslims into your country and afford them all the benefits of your freedoms and then they want to take them away from you and to kill you....Islam...feel the love...

Look, if the French know enough about these guys, to arrest them, then...*I* think the sensible thing to do would not be to *arrest* them but to **let them go**.

They want to waltz off to the hell-pits of dar al Islam to play the deadly zero-sum-game of 'I'm more Islamic than you are"?

FINE! Let them go! The more of them do it, the better!! Off with them to Islamia, where they belong! Let them deport themselves from our countries, hopefully at their own expense, and with any luck, to meet a sticky end at the hands of their ever-luvvin Mohammedan bros.

But...here's the part that *all* non-Muslim Authorities need to get: once you're *quite* sure that they've gone, if you have any reason at all to believe they are engaged in Jihad amongst their fellow Muslims, or have gone to train for Jihad...**cancel their French - or their British, or Australian, or US, or Canadian, or German, or, or, or [insert Infidel country name here] - passports and NEVER, NEVER, NEVER let them back in**.

Their *leaving* doesn't bother me in the slightest.

I'd wave them off at the airport with a ticker-tape parade, and help pay for their tickets, so long as I knew that the instant they left our shores a/ their citizenship here would *evaporate* and b/ they would NEVER be permitted back in.

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