• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Now 3,000 jihadis with Western passports in Iraq and Syria

Jul 20, 2014 5:43 pm By Robert Spencer

lat-fg-mosque-flag-wre0018768160-20140709“It’s something that gives us really extreme, extreme concern,” said Holder. “In some ways, it’s more frightening than anything I think I’ve seen as attorney general.” And yet Holder and the rest of the Obama Administration have aided and abetted the prohibition of any serious study of the ideology motivating such people. He should be frightened, because if these jihadis do strike in the U.S., Holder will bear a significant portion of the responsibility.

Note the jihad flag hung prominently in the mosque in the photo. Yet we are constantly told that what the Islamic State and other jihadis do has nothing to do with Islam. Somehow those in this mosque have misunderstood Islam. This cognitive dissonance impedes counter-terror efforts. There is no way we can defeat an enemy we refuse to understand.

“More Western fighters joining militants in Iraq and Syria,” by Brian Bennett and Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2014:

Thousands of foreign fighters have bolstered the ranks of militant groups in Syria and Iraq in recent months, according to U.S. officials, driving fresh concern about potential terrorist plots aimed at the United States or its allies.

The surge, as well as intelligence that Yemeni terrorists have developed a powerful cellphone bomb designed to avoid detection at airports, is behind the Obama administration’s increasingly urgent warnings that a European or American passport holder might try to take down a passenger jet or plan other deadly mayhem.

As many as 10,000 foreign fighters — a third more than in February — have joined the militias seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Islamic State fighters who have swept across northern Iraq, said a counter-terrorism official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified assessments.

As many as 3,000 of them hold European or other Western passports and thus can travel easily across most borders. Several dozen, perhaps as many as 100, hold U.S. passports, and officials say that number is growing.

The potential partnership between some of those Westerners and sophisticated bomb makers from the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, long viewed as the terrorist network’s most dangerous offshoot, has raised alarm in Washington and other capitals.

“It’s something that gives us really extreme, extreme concern,” Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. told ABC News last week. “In some ways, it’s more frightening than anything I think I’ve seen as attorney general.”

FBI Director James B. Comey told reporters in Washington that the threat “keeps me up at night.” He sees the region as a “launching ground” for potential Sept. 11-style mass-casualty attacks in this country….

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: American jihadis, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: featured


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. John C. Barile says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    Their Khalifah will send them to conduct da’wah and wage jihad here!

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    mosquito also called “mozzie” in UK
    A mosquito is a parasitic blood-sucking disease carrying pest.

    Easily confused with
    mezquita is a place full of ‘Muzzies’
    A mezquita is a place where a parasitic blood-sucking disease carrying delusional ‘Muzzies’ goe to pray.

  3. Jovial Joe says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    I think we’ve reached the point where significant and sustained attacks on Western nations are inevitably going to happen. No one wants this to happen (bar the Jihadists and their enablers) but what else will make the fatally inept leadership of the West and the misguided masses wake up to the reality of Islam to the point where we actually begin to defend ourselves? We must be prepared for the worst, face it bravely and retaliate without mercy using all the means at our disposal.

  4. mortimer says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 6:25 pm

    It’s time for intelligence agencies to learn the doctrines of jihad, abrogation of the ‘tolerant’ Koran of Mecca, the dualistic doctrine of the kafir, the subjugation of women and taqiyya.

    Without a thorough understanding of Islamic dualism, intelligence agents cannot perceive the mental process of terrorists.

    At present, I suspect most of these agents learn these doctrines on their own from jihad scholars like Robert Spencer since Obama is too naive and compromisesd to allow them formal lessons.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 20, 2014 at 6:30 pm

      Polyanna now lives in America and she is Obama.

      While America woke up in shock to learn of Pearl Harbor and responded appropriately, they did not respond appropriately to 9-11.

      Almost NO Japanese Americans were not interested in fighting America, but at least 10% or more of Muslims in the US would actively support jihad against Americans. This statistics needs to be studied and the government needs to start deprogramming the 10%.

      • Charlie Griffith says

        Jul 21, 2014 at 12:53 am

        “Almost NO Japanese Americans were not interested in fighting America,” I don’t think you intended to say that with a double negative. Maybe you did.

        As an impressionable and very aware ten year old, as all kids were that December/January, at home in Washington D.C. at that panicked time when Franklin Roosevelt issued his Executive Order interning those Japanese here, citizen or not, I still recall the thought that that was the only thing to do considering the Japanese subversion while Kurusu and Nomura were inside the old State-War-Navy Building “conferring” with Cordell Hull just immediately before Pearl Harbor was bombed.

        We literally had no idea of just who was the Enemy. How to tell?

        During the War, I remember occasionally being on Massachusetts Avenue and staring at the closed Japanese Embassy. The staff were interned at the luxurious Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia until they were repatriated on the Gripsholm, as I recall later in exchange for our Ambassador Grew and his staff in Tokyo.

        Now, a decade after the sneak air attack on Lower Manhattan and the Pentagon Building in Virginia, we’re faced with the same unknowns…how to tell just who among these many, many Muslims here are subversives?

        But the big difference now, not in any way to be belittled, is that we’re infected with multi-culti political correctness and Muslim “law-fare” and a general hand-wringing attitude towards accepting the brutal fact that we are a Nation at war, again, this time against all that those resident Koran reading Muslims here stand for.

        Now, with a president who calls himself Black and a Black Attorney General, we’re “hoist on our own petard” of political correctness.Some may say that’s poetic justice. I think that it’s a potential disaster-in-the-making.

  5. jewdog says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 7:08 pm

    It keeps them up at night, but not enough to send the Guard to close our southern border.
    Eric Holder keeps me up at night.

  6. duh_swami says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    The people at the top are so brilliant they make my head swim…Then I get nauseated.

  7. mark says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    Muslims who wage terrorism and who also have passports to our countries does not have to be a problem for us. Just nullify the legitimacy of the passports of such people. Never mind their ‘rights.’ Being a terrorist should kill their rights to ‘rights.’

  8. BlackCat21 says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 7:56 pm

    I think Robert Spencer needs to be brought back and his pay tripled to teach these government agencies that jihad= islam. After all it way the Administration that threw all those teachers out who KNOW that islam= jihad and jihad = islam = muslims = islam = hatred of anything western = kill the kafirs, kill the Jews, kill the Christians, kill the apostates, kill the mockers of islam (and Our President said “There is no room for those who criticize the PROPHET! I almost fell over when I saw that news clip!!) , Oh, I digress….back to the list of killings for islam…kill the adulteresses (or any woman who is even accused of such without 4 men witnesses –duhhheeee), kill the gay folks, kill your daughter or wife or any female member of the household who you even THINK has “DISHONORED” your cab-driving ass ….oh almost forgot….hatred for all of the above, and add DOGS to this list, and pictures of people and animals (hate that also as Moha said in the koran that he wouldn’t go in a house with dogs or pictures in it.), hate pork, hate alcohol (unless you don’t get caught at the package liquor store when no other muslims are looking or eat a BLT with a beer chaser), hey folks remember PROHIBITION? Then You’ll LOVE islam if you liked Prohibition. Oh, and check out Suri 4:34 in the koran on wife beating to top off your day of All Things Islam!

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Dude on Muslim cleric: ‘We welcomed the takeover of ISIS because they wanted to implement the Sharia’
  • Infidel on Uighur leader: ‘We’re actually quite worried’ about what Biden might let China get away with
  • Infidel on Uighur leader: ‘We’re actually quite worried’ about what Biden might let China get away with
  • Mojdeh on Audio: Robert Spencer on Muslim Brotherhood influence in a Biden/Harris administration
  • Henry Mansfield on Audio: Robert Spencer on Muslim Brotherhood influence in a Biden/Harris administration

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.