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Approximately 11,000 foreign jihadis in Syria, recruited through social media and Skype

Apr 24, 2014 2:34 pm By Raymond Ibrahim

article-syria-0904According to the popular Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta and as relayed on Arabic media, “the civil war in Syria appears to be in need of more victims, so that the jihadis are making use of the social networks to recruit fighters from among the Muslims of Britain.”

Adds the report: “A new wave of recruitment of fighters has begun through social Internet networks, whereby there are approximately 11,000 foreign fighters among the ranks of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and the Nusra Front, 1,900 of whom are from Europe, 366 from Britain, 269 from Belgium, 412 from France, and 249 from Germany and Scandinavian countries.”

The Russian paper added that “thousands of pictures of boys carrying weapons and calling on their friends and peers to join them in Syria have been deployed on social networks,” pointing out that “Skype is also used to exchange experiences between old and new fighters.”

Accordingly, “the Syrian crisis has become history’s first battleground to recruit fighters across its social networking.”

 

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    I hate this Dance of Death; a pox on all of them, before this insanity washes back upon these shores.

    • john spielman says

      Apr 24, 2014 at 3:25 pm

      I’m afraid the contagion called Islam has already wshed a shore here and the deadly results of it will only increase.

      Islam turning the minds of lost souls into crimminal killers in the name of Allah/Satan

  2. jewdog says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    Since the Syrian government is winning, we need to support the rebels, at least until they start winning.
    The Russians supports the Shiite Axis, since they are imperialists. Their claim of trying to help Russian speakers in places like Ukraine is belied by their nuclear aid to Iran (as well as Hezbollah and Hamas), a move that endangers the one million Russian speakers in Israel, many of whom (about 300k) are not even Jewish.

    • Mirren10 says

      Apr 27, 2014 at 8:10 am

      Jewdog, we don’t need to support *any* of them.

      Just let them get on with murdering each other.

  3. Twostellas says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 4:30 pm

    Those two look real happy to be there. Once they get the lost soul converts there, it’s all over. They can’t disagree with anything that is done, they starve them (look at the the one guys face, he is starving) and make them commit atrocities. It’s truly sick. Not to say that many of them don’t want to commit such atrocities, but I’m sure many don’t, they have grown up in a civil society, they may have a problem with torturing Christian children and raping women, but they can’t say no once there. It’s too bad the truth isn’t told about jihad and what war crimes Muslims view as permissible during such.

  4. pongidae rex says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 5:00 pm

    The Syrian conflict has morphed into some sort of hellish slaughter festival for foreign Islamists who travel to Syria simply to kill and torture people outside any legal consequences. What is going on there is bizarre and sick. If Western governments do not start yanking passports and citizenship from returning Jihadis, this ‘conflict’ will never end.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 28, 2014 at 7:17 pm

      pongidae rex wrote:

      What is going on there is bizarre and sick.
      …………………………..

      I’m afraid the horror going on in Syria is “normal” Jihad.

      With only the most superficial variants, it is the same homicidal madness that is going on in Iraq, and Nigeria, and southern Thailand, and Chechnya, and Afghanistan, and the southern Philippines, and Somalia.

      The use of “social media” in recruitment may be new here—but nothing else is.

  5. mortimer says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    Moreover, once there Western youth carry the bombs.

  6. Champ ✿ says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 5:30 pm

    Undoubtedly recruitment officers are pointing out the many perks (lol!) for joining allah’s army: sex heaven being one such perk.

    Of course only the truly gullible buy into what allah is sellin’ …

    Yeah bad decision are made every single day, and becoming a muslim is at the top of the list.

    • Notta_allah_followa says

      Apr 24, 2014 at 6:15 pm

      Your “religion” is on shaky moral and doctrinal ground when your filthy pig-god is a simple pimp. Hey, mujahideen! Blow up those people over there that I don’t like and I’ll TOTALLY get you laid with some magic girls I have up here.

  7. s c says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    well the british need all the help they can get to rid themselves of those killers who follow one of the worst men that ever lived {mohammad, piss be on him}

  8. tpellow says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 5:53 pm

    Supplementary.

    “The poster girls for jihad: Interpol searches for two Austrian teens ‘who went to Syria to fight for Islamic rebels'”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2607735/The-poster-girls-jihad-Interpol-searches-two-Austrian-teens-Syria-fighting-Islamic-rebels.html#ixzz2zqKuTH7n

  9. tpellow says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 5:57 pm

    Supplementary.

    ‘Telegraph’-

    “Up to 700 Britons feared fighting in Syria”

    http://www.newenglishreview.org/bloga.cfm/blog_id/52700/Up-to-700-Britons-feared-fighting-in-Syria

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 24, 2014 at 6:15 pm

      Y’know, if only the stupid Government would simply

      1/ perform due diligence in order to find out *exactly* who they are and where they are

      and then, having ascertained that they are indeed in Syria wallowing in blood,

      2/ CANCEL THEIR PASSPORTS and annul their citizenship or residency papers, 700 *formerly*-British-passport-holding jihadis in Syria would be *no problem at all*.

      Same thing would apply for Belgium, France, Germany, Scandinavia…and Australia, Canada, New Zealand…

      How the *hell* do we get our governments to apply the obvious Precautionary Principle?

      Question. You’re English. What is Paul Weston and Liberty Great Britain’s stated position re. British-passport-holding Allah Gang members who have gone off from the UK to wage jihad in Syria (or anywhere else)?

      Note: I really do think there is a chance of swinging this one, if we all – in our various countries – push hard enough and keep pushing. Because the danger and the massive and expensive security headache that these creeps represent – if and when they return into our midst – is so blindingly obvious that even the average politician and law enforcement officer has some chance of being got to recognise it.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 28, 2014 at 7:25 pm

      And of course, tpellow, these are neither “Austrians” nor “Britons”, but just Muslims using the civilized West as a base from which to wage Jihad.

      Revoke their damn passports.

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 6:34 pm

    From the article – “there are approximately 11,000 foreign fighters among the ranks of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and the Nusra Front, 1,900 of whom are from Europe, 366 from Britain, 269 from Belgium, 412 from France, and 249 from Germany and Scandinavian countries.”

    As regards that 1,900, it’s worth looking closely at the breakdown by country, because it works quite well as an idex of which western European countries are most heavily Islamised.

    The single largest group comprises 412 from France. That’s not surprising, since France has the largest Allah Gang presence, whether considered in absolute terms or as a percentage of the population.

    The UK comes next , contributing 366. That correlates nicely with the news we’ve been hearing from the UK over the past five years or so, with accelerating Islamisation.

    It appears indeed, using this “indicator”, that France and the UK are the most heavily Islamised countries in Europe.

    Then Belgium – also very heavily Islamised – with 269.

    And then Germany and Scandinavia, lumped together, 249 jihadis. (Note: I wonder how many came from Germany, alone, and then what the figures were for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, respectively?).

    Interesting that the Netherlands doesn’t seem to have contributed very many. I wonder why that is?

    Note: I added up the figures given from named countries or regions within Europe, and it came to 1196, which means (since the report said there were 1900 jihadis from Europe) that there are 700 coming from *other* European countries, assorted. I wonder which ones?

    Further question: if there are 11,000 foreign jihadis in Syria, of which just under 2000 are Mohammedans holding *European* passports, where are the other 9000 coming from?

    Presumably, a large proportion would be from assorted *Islamic* countries.

    But last I heard there were supposed to be a couple of hundred Aussie-passport-holding mohammedans in Syria (of whom at least 3 that I can call to mind have either been offed, or have offed themselves), and one wonders how many have gone from the Ummah colonies in the USA, Canada, and other parts of the non-Muslim world…including Russia.

    • Mazo says

      Apr 25, 2014 at 6:28 pm

      Notice the projection by Voldemort’s Army.

      She uses the label Ummah colonies for Muslims in Russia, comparing them to immigrant Muslim populations in America and Europe.

      She pretends that indigenous Muslim asian populations like the Siberian Tatars, are immigrants. She pretends that Khanates of Sibir, Astrakhan and Kazan didn’t exist.

      Next, we might here that all indigenous asian people from asian Siberia are really immigrants and that the evil asian natives stole the land from the Russians who took back what was theirs.

      Of course, no mention will be made of the Russian conquest and invasion of Siberia in which they slaughtered many non-Muslim animist Siberian asian peoples and settled millions of Russians on their land, just like when Voldemort’s Army pretended that Orthodox Christianity came peacefully to Siberia.

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/russia-imam-found-guilty-of-extremism/comment-page-1#comment-1018922

      Most Muslims in Russia are from indigenous ethnic groups native to the land and are not immigrants.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 28, 2014 at 7:37 pm

        Notice that Mazo has no problem whatsoever with the Ummah off to wage violent Jihad all over the world.

        No, his only issue is with the idea that bloody Islam might not be considered indigenous wherever it has gained a foothold.

        After all, aren’t all people “born Muslim”, as Mohammedans would have it?

        In that case, places like Europe, North America, and Australia are just being “reverted” to their natural state with the incursion of violent, supremacist Muslims. *Ugh*.

        • Mazo says

          Apr 28, 2014 at 8:28 pm

          Notice how gravenimage deliberately ignores my point and makes completely false claims about my post.

          I said, Asian Muslims who are indigenous to their land in Siberia like the Siberian Tatars, and were conquered in a bloody conquest by the Russian Empire (along with many non-Muslim animist natives) are not comparable to Muslim immigrants in Europe who moved there. The Siberian Tatars were native to their land, and they were animists before voluntarily converting to Islam.

          “Siberia” was named after the Muslim Siberian Tatar Khanate of Sibir after Russia conquered it.

  11. Semeru says

    Apr 25, 2014 at 3:16 am

    France 412
    United Kingdom 366
    Belgium 296
    Germany 240
    Australia 205
    Netherlands 152
    Kosovo 150
    Albania 140
    Canada 100
    Spain 95
    Sweden 87
    Denmark 84
    Bosnia 60
    United States 60
    Austria 60
    Italy 50
    Norway 40
    Ireland 26
    Finland 20
    Macedonia 20
    Luxembourg 1
    Switzerland 1

    And from moderate Indonesia we have a grand total of 50

    Sidney Jones, the institute’s director, said the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, based on information from the Syrian government, estimated that at least 50 Indonesians had traveled to Syria via Turkey to take up arms since 2012. While she emphasized that the figure was “a guesstimate,” the report warned that the numbers could increase.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/world/asia/indonesian-militants-join-fight-in-syria.html?_r=0

  12. Robert Wagner says

    Apr 25, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    The Syrian war is no longer a war of Independence, but a war between Sunni and Shiites. Maybe it’s wrong to think this way, but can it be bad when jihads kill jihads?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 28, 2014 at 7:48 pm

      Robert Wagner wrote:

      The Syrian war is no longer a war of Independence, but a war between Sunni and Shiites. Maybe it’s wrong to think this way, but can it be bad when jihads kill jihads?
      ……………………………….

      I don’t believe this was ever a “war of independence”, Robert. From the very beginning, Jihadists made it pretty clear that they were out to create a Sunni Shari’ah state.

      The only problem is that this is not just Jihadists killing Jihadists, but also their killing Christians and threatening Israel.

      And if these “foreign fighters” are allowed to return to the West, they will use their shiny new Jihad skills against the countries that have taken them in.

      But yes—a lot of what is going on in Syria *is* Jihadists killing Jihadists. A story from just a day or two ago chronicled the death of a Jihadist from Germany who was killed in a suicide bombing by rival “Mujahideen” from another Jihad group.

  13. Mirren10 says

    Apr 25, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    ”Note: I really do think there is a chance of swinging this one, if we all – in our various countries – push hard enough and keep pushing. Because the danger and the massive and expensive security headache that these creeps represent – if and when they return into our midst – is so blindingly obvious that **even the average politician and law enforcement officer has some chance of being got to recognise it**” (my emphasis: Mirren)

    They may **recognise** it, but the chances of them actually **doing** anything about it, is, in my opinion, next to zero.

    Politicians, as you know, dance to the tune of **votes**, and at the moment, the mohammedan lobby in the UK is far too numerous and attractive for politicians to do anything that may affect their chances of re-election. Law enforcement officers ? Again, they are, in the main, political creatures. (The hierarchy, anyway). Ordinary police officers are forced, if they want to keep their jobs, to follow the orders of police commissioners; the hierarchy, who, without exception, follow the orders of their political masters. Ordinary police officers who buck the system, are summarily dealt with.

    I spend a fair amount of time e-mailing, and writing proper letters to, politicians from all parties, as well as my own MP, and, again, without exception, I have been fobbed off with anodyne, quisling rhetoric about ‘multiculti’ claptrap, and the old, ” we mustn’t condemn all muslims because of the behaviour of a few”. The quotations from the koran and hadith, which I included, were universally ignored.

    The rot has gone deep, **very** deep.

    On the news today; the government (UK) has asked all mohammedan wives, sisters etc, to attempt to **dissuade** their husbands, brothers, from leaving the UK to go on jihad.

    One wonders what on earth their motives and rationale can possibly be. (ha ha)

    On a lighter note, dda, I hope you and yours are keeping well.

    On an even **lighter** note, I’ve just had a phone call from my nephew, who is a student at Sheffield Uni. He’s just had a run in with a mohammedan at the student cafeteria, which closely mirrors the experiences of the young man’s Uni blog, which you previously posted.

    My nephew was quite vociferous on the supremacist, misogynist garbage the mohammedan spewed ! And what is even more worthy of celebration, is that, as is the province of the young everywhere, although they are on the side of whomever they perceive to be the underdog, ( and quite rightly, bless them) he was previously quite convinced that **I** was being totally unfair to mohammedans, but now he has actually experienced their vile supremacism for himself, (incidentally, this mohammedan pos actually **quoted from the koran**), he is now radically revising his previous assessement. I commiserated, sympathised, and also suggested he might consider **reading** the koran, hadith, and the life of mohammed.

    I also recommended the JW website which he had previously condemned, as well as Pamelageller, and various other anti-jihad websites. He has said he will read them.

    I think that the young, who will be forced to confront the full horror of fighting back islam, are more and more having their noses rubbed in the miserable weasely quisling crap pushed by our ‘leaders’, and are more and more sickened by it. God protect them and help them.

    Goodness me, how these mohammedans constantly shoot themselves in the foot ! ”Oft even will will evil mar”. !!

    As a side note; I’ve just come back from the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield; it was full to the seams of mohammedan bints wearing the slave rag. I also noted there was a ‘muslim prayer room’. No notification that I could see, of a Christian chapel, although I may be wrong about that; ( didn’t have time to properly look) if so, I will say so.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 27, 2014 at 7:27 am

      Thank you for your good wishes.

      My family are all in good health and we had a lovely Easter (and our church – just a standard suburban Aussie Anglican church – had a very good turnout for the 5.30 am dawn service, which started in the dark, and was full up – all the regulars plus a goodly supply of not-so-regulars and visitors – for the 8.30 am service).

      Also, ANZAC day, which is Australia’s main ‘patriotic’ holiday, just passed, saw huge (in some cases, record) turnouts at all ceremonies and parades across the country, at which among other things our returned soldiers from duty in Afghanistan were marching. My husband and I got up early for the dawn ceremony at the cenotaph in the war graves section of a large suburban cemetery. There were *thousands* of people there, and many of them were young parents with small children.

      I think that at some deep subconscious level Australians sense that we are in danger and *at war*…and so we all converged, as if by instinct, on these ANZAC day celebrations and memorials, to honour our Old Soldiers…and the not-so-old, many of whom marched having just recently returned from Afghanistan.

      Incidentally, I didn’t see any hijabis or their scowling be-bearded owners, neither in the throng at dawn on Friday morning 25 April, nor in the TV footage of the crowds (ten deep) that lined the streets in capital cities to see the Old Soldiers marching past.

      Anyway, back to you: you are doing an amazing job. Never give up! Never shut up! God bless you.

      You may not have gotten much in the way of results with your pollies – *yet* – but you *can* celebrate the fact that your *nephew* has woken up. Good to have some under-50s joining the Resistance. And now you and he can encourage each other.

      As for the politicians…if all of us right across the western world – and beyond it, in places like India – *refuse* to give up, and keep right on politely pestering away, and we are joined by more and more people (such as your nephew!), then in the end they *won’t* be able to ignore us..

      Squeaky wheels get grease? Well, the Infidel wheels have to keep on squeaking and squeak louder and more often than the Muslims do.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 28, 2014 at 8:15 pm

      Mirren wrote:

      Politicians, as you know, dance to the tune of **votes**, and at the moment, the mohammedan lobby in the UK is far too numerous and attractive for politicians to do anything that may affect their chances of re-election.
      ………………………….

      This is very, very true, Mirren. But native British Infidels *still* much outnumber the Mohammedans who have taken up residence there. If they are loud enough, then even the most cynical politician will *have* to pay attention.

      This is true throughout the West.

      And I’m glad to hear about your nephew. This is a grim lesson, but one that many young people will have to learn if we are to have an chance against the ugly incursions of Islam in the civilized world.

      As for Hallamshire Hospital, this is what I found:

      Royal Hallamshire Hospital

      Chapel

      A floor
      Sunday Service at 11.00am

      Prayer Rooms

      B floor corridor to left of shops (Muslim)
      A floor inside chapel (Multi-faith)

      And:

      For Christians chapel services are held on Sunday in the chapels at the Northern General and Royal Hallamshire Hospital.

      http://www.sth.nhs.uk/services/a-z-of-services?id=151

      Interesting that while the Multi-faith prayer room appears to have been carved out of the existing Chapel that the Muslim prayer room seems to be a dedicated space fully separate from the rest of the “filthy Kuffar”.

      So, Muslims are being cravenly catered to, but still haven’t succeeded in driving out Christian and other worship. Still, it’s early in their game…

      Apart from this ugliness, I hope you are doing well, Mirren.

  14. Mirren10 says

    Apr 25, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    That above post was directed in response to dda.

    I’m not trying to be captious here, but isn’t it possible, under this new format, for posts in response to another’s post, to be clearly marked as such ?

  15. Mirren10 says

    Apr 27, 2014 at 8:22 am

    Thanks, dda.

    No, I will *never* give up, or shut up.

    No surrender ever !

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