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Denver teen Muslimas talked for almost a year with Islamic State jihadis

Nov 1, 2014 5:50 am By Robert Spencer

denver1-2-web2“Officials at the Cherry Creek School District, where all three attended high school, said it appeared the girls were victims of online predators.” It seems from news reports that every young Muslim from a Western country who tries to join the Islamic State has been “radicalized on the Internet.” That has become an easy way for authorities to avoid asking tough questions of the mosques in their own countries that they have been assiduously cultivating with “outreach” programs instead of monitoring or investigating.

But the question remains: why were these girls, and other young men and women like them, so susceptible to these online blandishments? Why didn’t they stop and say to the Islamic State recruiters, “You must be one of those Hijackers of Islam I have heard so much about, twisting my beautiful Religion of Peace and distorting its true, peaceful teachings”? Why didn’t they say, “No, no, no, you’re misunderstanding Islam, here are all the peaceful, tolerant Qur’anic teachings that I have learned at my local mosque”?

And why does it never seem to occur to law enforcement authorities to ask questions like these?

“Colorado teens talked to high-level ISIS terrorists before allegedly trying to join its ranks: analyst report,” by Deborah Hastings, New York Daily News, October 31, 2014:

The Denver teenagers who allegedly wanted to join ISIS had been conversing with Islamic State terrorists for nearly a year, according to a report released by a monitoring group.

The three girls had spoken via the Internet with at least two jihadists and a high-level handler and were quickly indoctrinated into radical views, the Denver Post reported, citing a new report by the Search for International Terrorist Entities Intelligence Group, also known as SITE.

The group looked at thousands of postings by the girls, ages 15, 16 and 17, over the past year. On Sept. 11, one of the girls tweeted “Muslims handing out apologies because of 9/11 are a disgrace to the (Muslim Nation),” the paper reported.

The teens were apprehended by German authorities in Frankfurt on Oct. 21, based on information supplied by the FBI. Two are sisters of Somali descent, the third is of Sudanese descent. They had stolen money from their parents and paid cash for their tickets, officials said. They were bound for Syria via stops in Frankfurt and Turkey….

Officials at the Cherry Creek School District, where all three attended high school, said it appeared the girls were victims of online predators. Fellow students alerted administrators of the girls’ tweets….

Federal authorities are examining the teenagers’ computers. No charges have been filed. The girls are back with their families.

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  1. mortimer says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 8:52 am

    Two-thirds of Muslims worldwide want a caliphate that enforces Sharia law. This is what ISIS provides. The sympathy for ISIS among Muslims has not been measured but is no doubt very substantial…much more than ‘a tiny minority of extremists’…there must be at least 30% of Muslims worldwide who privately approve of ISIS. ISIS is the only Islamic regime that enforces Sharia without comprise.

    A survey of Muslim attitudes to ISIS needs URGENTLY to be done.

    These are some previous survey results:
    -ICM Poll: 20% of British Muslims sympathize with 7/7 bombers
    -One third of Palestinians (32%) supported the slaughter of a Jewish family, including the children
    -32% of Indonesians approve of attacks on Americans
    -41% of Pakistanis approve of attacks on Americans
    -38% of Moroccans approve of attacks on Americans
    -83% of Palestinians approve of some or most groups that attack Americans
    -Pew Research (2010): 55% of Jordanians have a positive view of Hezbollah
    -42% of young Muslims in France believe suicide bombings are justified (35% overall).
    -Pew Research (2013): Only 57% of Muslims worldwide disapprove of al-Qaeda. Only 51% disapprove of the Taliban. -13% support both groups and 1 in 4 refuse to say.

  2. Sam says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 10:39 am

    Poor muslimas! They are safe with their families now to spread the REAL peace of religion among their friends

  3. Oliver says

    Nov 2, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    Last sentence saddened me. Back with their families. Should have let them go to Turkey and Syria. Be raped and killed (or, if not virgins, probably just killed).

    Either way, no loss to the US or humanity.

    And they couldn’t breed more pieces of crap like themselves.

    Let all these assholes go-especially the females–so they get killed and cannot breed.

  4. Seabeesrule! says

    Nov 2, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    What a crazy f**ked up society we live in!! Those girls were radicalized muslimas from guess where Somolia and this is how they repay the American tax payer who paid to bring their ungrateful family of 100 over here by attempting to wage war on US! Welfare recipients too I have no doubt! Those bug eyed ugly ass Somali scum need to be jettisoned out if this land.. All the muzzratt population cuz I don’t buy it that their are moderates they don’t speak out bec secretly they agree with the ideological trash if that hate filled crap! I’m with the other comment on her why did we drag them back only to let them off with no warning , no jail , nothing not even a slap on the wrist and they are traitors consorting with the enemy!!! God it’s clear as day! This great land was cursed the day we let the first damn muzzrat into our land… They all want us dead to take what we have… Deport deport deport impeach impeach impeach!

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