Where did these Americans learn their understanding of Islam? We all know, on pain of charges of “Islamophobia,” that no Muslims in the U.S., none, agree with the Islamic State, or want to bring Sharia Westward, or have any desire to restore the caliphate. None, you greasy Islamophobe. So how did these Americans come to misunderstand Islam? Were they reading “Islamophobic” writings that they mistook for the genuine article?
“Americans among 12,000 foreign fighters in Syria: US,” AFP, August 21, 2014:
Washington (AFP) – Some 12,000 foreign jihadists from 50 countries, including Americans, have gone to fight in Syria since the conflict began, the US State Department said Thursday.
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, estimated that more than 100 US citizens have traveled or tried to travel to Syria to join the conflict.
They have traveled to join radical groups including the Islamic State (IS), militants fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria who have expanded into neighboring Iraq.
“We think that there are approximately 12,000 fighters from at least 50 countries in Syria — foreign fighters, including a small number of Americans — that may have traveled to Syria since the beginning of the conflict” more than three years ago, said deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf.
“They may all not still be there,” she said, without revealing an estimated number of Americans.
US officials have been unable to identify an organized recruitment effort aimed at US citizens, as is the case in Europe.
Washington has publicly stated that Western fighters pose an especially dangerous risk, especially when they return to their countries of origin.
In late September, President Barack Obama is scheduled to host a Security Council summit with other heads of state focusing on the acute threat posed by foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq.
During his August 12 visit to Sydney, Secretary of State John Kerry said that Washington and Australia agreed to take concerns about the threat posed by jihadist foreign fighters in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere to the United Nations.
shrugger says
They are NOT Americans. They are merely FROM the United States. The Ummah is their nationality.
Vinodgupt says
Kuffar has to understand that a Muslim has loyalty only to Allah — not even to his parents let alone a kuffar nation.
Jay Boo says
Islam is a sewer
Muslims are its contents
CogitoErgoSum says
And each one is a traitor to his country …… except the ones who are acting undercover for the CIA. Question is: do you jihadis know which ones are the spies and which ones are not? Could be that the one you are expecting to watch your back is actually preparing to stick a knife in it. Ha! Think about that.
john spielman says
hopefully ISIS reads JW to receive your warning
Charlie Griffith says
More public emphases badly need to be placed on the Muslims’ “sleeper” and “cell” type of organization and subversion a’ la the soviet style so very effectively used here in America from about 1925 or so up until the soviet-style organizational collapse in Russia in 1989.
The Muslims here are very effectively applying the same strategy and tactics, smiling all the way. Our public simply isn’t accepting this hard reality.
Fat chance getting our media to be a sounding board because their fear of being labeled ‘racist’ or “Islamophobic’, not to mention this Ferguson shooting taking all of the attention away from our greater Muslim Problem, but mention of it here from time to time might plant a few seeds.
Spencer’s efforts here aren’t enough by themselves. Maybe when the first throat slittings start popping up, that’ll get the message started in earnest. Apathy feeds Muslim terror here at home. Why is this so hard to grasp?
Oliver says
John Kerry said —-to take concerns to the Useless nations.
Where their “division” ( for ewant of a better term) to help “Palestinian” refugees stores OFFENSIVE rockets to be fired at Israel ( and, when found, gives back to Hamas, a terrorist organization, regardless of what Peanut Jimmy Carter says)–is a joke.
The entire Useless Nations is a joke–a bad, sick one, that the US (Uncle Sucker) pays a disproportionate share.
So they can blast us, and be critical ,of Israel, the only free country in the Middle East.
olutade says
If ordinary criminals rape, kill, murder for some causes, and others do same in the name of creed, what is the difference?
No Fear says
If the criminals are ALL holding up the same “holy book” and they are ALL reciting passages from the same “holy book” as they kill someone in a manner which is prescribed for them in that “holy book” then I get the idea that the “holy book” may be ideologically involved in their behaviour. Only a dolt would think otherwise.
That supremacist holy book may be written by Mao, Stalin, Marx, Mohammed, Hitler, Moses, Abraham, Odin, etc. the author doesn’t matter. It is the “ideological killing in the name of” the “holy book” that matters.
Olutade says
No Fear said –That supremacist holy book may be written by Mao, Stalin, Marx, Mohammed, Hitler, Moses, Abraham, Odin, etc. the author doesn’t matter. It is the “ideological killing in the name of” the “holy book” that matters.
Then the “ideological killing ” is nothing but ” criminality” .
Jay Boo says
Wherever you find them kill them; their book boldly decrees.
This is from the heart of the Qur’an that is claimed to be immutable and infallible.
(DISGRACEFUL indeed).
To believe in Muhammad is misguided
but to insist with violence is mental illness.
“THE BAD NEWS”
History still clearly proves that Islam’s “prophet” ADULTERATED both
the “BOOK” and the WIVES that were stolen from Medina’s murdered Jews
and (Safiya & Juwayriya) too.
paddy says
12,000. So many lost young men and women. A disparate bunch of fanatics who are prolonging the misery of those ordinary citizens of Iraq and Syria. They dont belong there and their families/friends know who they are. Do female muslim martyrs have 40 virgin boys lined up?
Hank Truesdell says
At least some are awakening to the truth of what Islam is. Now how do we interpret the continued denials by POTUS? is it too much to suggest that he may be complicit? Dare I say a “Trojan Horse”?
tpellow says
And a 5 min ‘RT’ Russian TV video report on Islamic jihad threat in Europe-
“Jihad Inside: Extremists ranks in Europe grow”