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France: “Particularly dangerous” jihad recruiter arrested

Sep 11, 2014 10:55 am By Robert Spencer

Eiffel TowerHow did this Islam-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-Islam and this jihad-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-jihad become so widespread? Why can’t Muslim leaders teach their people properly, so as to end this massive misunderstanding of Islam? “Suspected French Jihad Recruiter Arrested in Paris,” by Elaine Ganley, Associated Press, September 11, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):

French authorities have arrested a “particularly dangerous” recruiter of young jihadis for the civil war in Syria, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.

Mourad Fares, 30, was arrested Wednesday night at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, nearly a month after he was detained in Turkey — a transit country for fighters who want to enter Syria.

Fares, from Thonon-les-Bain in the foothills of the Alps, went to Syria in July 2013 and is a “particularly dangerous individual,” a ministry statement said. He had links to the predecessor of the Islamic State group, the most brutal among myriad jihadi organizations, then the al-Qaida linked Nusra Front, the ministry said.

French intelligence agencies have long suspected he was among those luring young French, some as young as 14, to jihad in Syria. The ministry said his role was considered “determining” in cases in Toulouse and in Strasbourg, in eastern France.

A judicial investigation was opened last July and an international arrest warrant issued. He was detained in Turkey on Aug. 16.

With about 5 million Muslims, the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, France has been particularly vulnerable to the growing phenomenon of citizens turning to jihad. Calls to become a fighter are often put out on social networks.

Authorities estimate about 900 people from France have been implicated in jihad in the Syria region. Authorities across the West fear the return of battle-hardened jihadis, saying the fighters have the will and skills to mount attacks on home soil.

New anti-terrorism legislation to combat the jihadi recruitment phenomenon will be debated by French lawmakers starting next Monday.

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  1. Beagle says

    Sep 11, 2014 at 11:14 am

    Authorities across the West fear the return of battle-hardened jihadis, saying the fighters have the will and skills to mount attacks on home soil.
    — —
    The skills? Against unarmed civilians? Point. Shoot. Point. Shoot. Point. Shoot. Reload. Point. Shoot. Point. Shoot. Etc.

    I guess they mean IED or VBIED skills. The will is critical of course.

    • Jeanette Rost says

      Sep 11, 2014 at 4:03 pm

      Is it a level of stupidity, or is it deliberate murderous intent? It’s hard to believe that the consistent, anti-infidel, pro-Muslim (despite their behavior) is due to stupidity. If they were that stupid, they couldn’t find their way home from their offices.

      We should probably keep in mind that Agenda 21 calls for an 85% reduction in human population, and Obama has written an executive order instructing US departments and agencies to implement Agenda 21 against the American people.

      What if the elite plan to simply sit back and let the Muslims murder as many infidels as they can? That would reduce the number of people the elite would have to get rid of from 7 billion down to 1.5 billion, less any Muslims killed during the Muslim/Infidel War, which probably wouldn’t be very many with the infidels being mostly unarmed, and mostly clueless.

    • susanp says

      Sep 11, 2014 at 10:13 pm

      Have you ever seen or heard of the Georgia Guidestones? They are located in Elbert County, GA in the middle of a cow pasture and I have stopped and read them many times when enroute to North Carolina. You can look them up online and read the hundreds of theories regarding their message. Despite their isolated location, there are always people there taking pictures and scrutinizing their enigmatic message in cars with license plates from all over the U.S. Since you mentioned Agenda 21 and the U.N. ‘s desire to vastly reduce the human population, you might find them interesting. My first impulse was to tie them to the ‘New World Order’ but they were erected in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s by an anonymous donor. At that time, there wasn’t much concern about global communist governance although the left wing social engineers were surely hard at work cooking up ‘climate change’, over- population, mass starvation, false claims of racism, radical feminism, etc. Check them out.

  2. Salah says

    Sep 11, 2014 at 11:20 am

    “Suspected French Jihad Recruiter Arrested in Paris,”

    Actually, they are always arresting the wrong guys. The real culprits are our so-called “elite” and leaders. They are the ones who should face justice and, if found guilty of high treason, EXECUTED.
    They’ve sold their peoples and their countries for a handful of petro-dollars, votes, power and personal wealth. This has to stop.

    • Ballyroebuck says

      Sep 11, 2014 at 5:16 pm

      Amen – the traitorous politicians in our midst are the real issue. In general, Malcom Muggeridge was on to it when he wrote an article titled The Great Liberal Death Wish in 1977.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Sep 11, 2014 at 11:24 am

    in the meantime the authorities best advice will be to recommend that we always wear clean underwear especially today because they will always make excuses for those of Islam who lie in wait.

  4. mortimer says

    Sep 11, 2014 at 11:41 am

    WHEN WILL WESTERN POLITICIANS GET IT?

    Is Islam unfairly mischaracterized as a warrior cult? Is jihadism (called ‘extremism’ by Western politicians) a misinterpretation of Islam? Both questions must be answered by ‘no’. In fact, Islam is a warrior cult and jihadism is normative Islam. There is unimpeachable support from Islamic texts that that is so.

    Western politicians assume the Golden Rule is found in Islam, but that is false. Koran 48:29 is a verse that clearly and unmistakably, perhaps even deliberately, contradicts the Golden Rule:

    Koran 48.29 “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah
    Those with him are VIOLENT (ashiddaa’) against the unbelievers (kufaar),
    Compassionate amongst themselves.”

    Islam’s goal is the political supremacism of Muslims over disbelievers by whatever means possible including violence, extortion, enslavement, genocide, rape or deception.

  5. Jovial Joe says

    Sep 11, 2014 at 12:00 pm

    What have the This-has-nothing-to-do-with-Islam idiots got to say about this? Um, let me guess….

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Sep 11, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    From the article -” French intelligence agencies have long suspected he was among those luring young French, some as young as 14, to jihad in Syria.”

    Young “French”??
    No. Not French. Muslim. “French-passport-holding Muslims”.

    However, half marks to Elaine Ganley, of Associated Press, for actually using the J-word – “jihad”.

    More:

    “With about 5 million Muslims, the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, France has been particularly vulnerable to the growing phenomenon of citizens turning to jihad. Calls to become a fighter are often put out on social networks.”

    Got Muslims? – got Jihad. Got *lots* of Muslims? – got MORE Jihad.

    “Citizens”. No. “French-passport-holding Muslims”. They are not citizens, citoyens, of the French Republic, in any meaningful sense at all. France is merely a geographical locality within which they happen to be resident, but which, in the long run, they intend to Islamoform, erasing from it every trace of everything that, at the moment, still makes it Infidel France. They are fifth columnists, the enemy within.

    “Authorities estimate about 900 people from France have been implicated in jihad in the Syria region. Authorities across the West fear the return of battle-hardened jihadis, saying the fighters have the will and skills to mount attacks on home soil.”

    “People”. And every man and woman of those “900 people from France” is a fully-signed-up card-carrying Muslim, a zealous imitator and follower of Mohammed the Mad, warlord, caravan-robber, slave-taker, treaty-breaker and rapist, founder of the Cult of Blood and War.

    If there were NO Muslims resident within France, then NO French-passport-holding Muslims would be sashaying off to wallow in the jihad bloodbaths in Syria and Iraq, and France would have to worry far, far less about the possibility of mass-murderous Muslim ghazi raids on French soil.

    If the French authorities really mean business, then every mosque found to have been associated with jihad recruitment drives, will be raided, and searched, and shut down, and razed to the ground, never to be rebuilt; and every Muslim found to have departed from France to wage Jihad in Syria or Iraq (or anywhere else that there is a jihad hotspot), will be stripped of French citizenship, or else declared permanently Exile and Outlaw. (And at the same time, *all* further entry of known/ declared/ identifiable mohammedans into France, would be stopped; Mohammedans already in France, but without citizenship, would not be granted citizenship, and those with residency status would find that their residency was not going to be renewed. This is called “When in Hole, Stop Digging”).

    if those 900 jihadis known to be in Syria were stripped of their French citizenship papers forthwith, their French passports annulled, and all necessary identifying details circulated to the gatekeepers of *all* non-Muslim nations with instructions, “Do Not Admit; Evict to Dar al Islam, if Apprehended”, then France would be rid of 900 of their most dangerous Muslims.

  7. BALTHAZAR says

    Sep 11, 2014 at 10:06 pm

    Enough dilly dallying. This fucker must be put in front of a firing squad and executed. Treat these fucker s with the same inhumanity they want to treat us. Wipe their putrid religion off the face of the planet and turn their countries into nuclear wastelands. Bulldoze every mosque int the west into rubble, destroy the mosque in Jerusalem nd rebuild the Temple.This is war and a war we must win.

    • Huck Folder says

      Sep 12, 2014 at 2:51 am

      Actually, I think they should have let him carry on, bugged if possible, and recruit thousands in the name of mohammed bin Darwin.

      But then they would have to have that stuxnet-like worm on their computers, that when the perps pass into the first OIC country, presumably Turkey, they become unpersons (thirty years late for Orwell). EVERY trace of their residence, citizenship, passport, birth certificate instantly evaporates.
      The next time they try to use the passport, it is confiscated as a ‘forgery’ and the previous holder is told to sod off or be arrested. OK, maybe put them in jail for 12 months for using a forged passport, then kick them out on the streets as a bum.

      So, as well as being witless, they would become stateless.

      Not every moslem twat would be recruitment material, so this guy would be leaching out the more psychopathic elements for us; and we know isis uses them as cannon fodder.

      Maybe the Department of Dirty Tricks could spike his camel urine cocktail and get compromising video of him in flagrante delicto with an underage girl or boy.
      Then ‘run’ him.

      Save the cost of a bullet.

      Another idea would be to issue passports to jihadists printed on nitrated paper.
      Dangerous, because a stack of them would make a nice bomb.
      But just imagine at the check-in counter, the agent (in the know) flicks a lighter against one corner of the passport, and in a two second yellow flash, it’s gone, almost without ash.

      *”Um, can I have my passport back?”
      #”What passport?”
      …

  8. GP says

    Sep 12, 2014 at 11:58 am

    (pictured above)… to paraphrase another post, just what you want to see when visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris, a women wearing garbage bags.

  9. GP says

    Sep 12, 2014 at 12:01 pm

    First day back at school somewhere in Europe

    The teacher began calling out the names of the pupils :

    “Mustafa Al Eih Zeri ?” – “Here miss.”

    “Achmed El Kabul ?” – “Here miss.”

    “Fatima Al Hayek ? ” – “Here miss.”

    “Ali Abdul Olmi ?” – “Here miss.”

    “Mohammed Bin Kadir ?” – “Here miss.”

    “Ali Son al En”, silence in the classroom.

    “Ali Son al En” – continued silence as everyone looked around the room.

    The teacher repeated the call. A girl stood up and said
    *
    *
    *
    “Sorry, miss, I think that’s me. It’s pronounced Alison Allen

    Don’t laugh, this comes near to your town soon

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