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Jihadis returning to France from Islamic State and making more recruits

Feb 7, 2015 9:13 pm By Robert Spencer

A member loyal to the ISIL waves an ISIL flag in RaqqaWhy are they allowed back in? Going to the Islamic State was tantamount to declaring themselves to be at war with France. Isn’t that treason? And if they had to be let back in, why are they roaming around freely making new jihad recruits?

“The town that went to jihad: Fanatics in sleepy French neighbourhood are fighting alongside Islamic State in Syria then coming BACK to radicalise youngsters,” by Jay Akbar, Mailonline, February 7, 2015 (thanks to Bill):

At least 17 men from a small town in southern France have reportedly joined Al-Qaeda or Islamic State to fight in Syria.

Three of the men from Lunel, which has a population of just 27,500, have even taken their wives or girlfriends with them. One of them even gave birth in the war zone.

Six men from the town have died, which accounts for 10 per cent of the French jihadists killed in the conflict, Adam Sage wrote in the Times.

Five people were arrested during anti-terror raids in the Abrivado neighbourhood only last month, according to France 24.

The French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the people arrested – aged between 26 and 44 – were ‘suspected of active involvement in a jihadist network’.

He also claimed the network’s members ‘were recruited and indoctrinated, and who also indoctrinated and recruited several other French youngsters from Lunel’.

The town’s mayor Claude Arnaud had previously doubted the existence of such a network and suspected the men were ‘self-radicalised’ by online propaganda.

Herault regional police office estimated as many as 50 young people had travelled to Iraq and Syria from the Languedoc-Roussillon in which Lunel lies.

Local officials including Mayor Arnaud are struggling to understand why their quiet town has become a source of radicalisation.

It is worrying for country in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January and the hostage situation at a kosher supermarket that followed.

Lunel’s jihadists allegedly attend a Mosque in the town’s suburbs, which the government has described as a ‘hotbed of fundamentalism’.

The Mosque is split between the more fanatically religious followers and opponents of the resident imam, who preaches in Arabic.

A local man who prays at the Mosque said: ‘I told him to his face that we couldn’t understand a word he said, and that we wanted a French imam. He told us that, in that case, we should pray in a room outside the Mosque.’

Some of the worshippers allegedly meet to discuss the suffering caused by the Syrian civil war and encourage people to go there….

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  1. Angemon says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 9:30 pm

    Lunel’s jihadists allegedly attend a Mosque in the town’s suburbs, which the government has described as a ‘hotbed of fundamentalism’.

    What is the government doing about this mosque, and what makes it different from any other mosque in France?

  2. Don McKellar says

    Feb 7, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    Why are they let back? Look who France has for a government! Cowards! Traitors!

    Hey, has anybody read that new top selling novel in France? The title is Soumission (Submission). What is it like? Any good? I heard it’s all about the not so distant future when a moslem is elected president and all women are forced to wear moslem black cloth coffins.

  3. Kasey says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 5:55 am

    It won’t be just in France where attacks will happen. The internet now allows for coordinated attacks around the World by all returnees from ISIL and other Sunni radical areas. Time is on their side and when they’re ready, expect the worst.

  4. thomas pellow says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 7:55 am

    ‘Fox News’-

    “Ami Horowitz: What do French Muslims really think about the Charlie Hebdo attack?”

    (Video clip.)

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/02/06/ami-horowitz-what-do-french-muslims-really-think-about-charlie-hebdo-attack/

  5. thomas pellow says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 10:06 am

    Supplementary.

    “Suspected jihadi recruiters arrested in south-west France, Nice attacker charged.”

    http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20150208-suspected-jihadi-recruiters-arrested-south-west-france-nice-attacker-charged?

  6. pumbar says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    “Terrified, supine, staggering, cowardly, dhimmi”, oh, hang on, it’s France we’re talking about… Sorry…

  7. thomas pellow says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 12:35 pm

    “Djamel Beghal, the charming and chilling mentor of Paris jihadist attackers”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-charming-and-chilling-mentor-of-the-paris-attackers/2015/02/06/2870f13c-a7dd-11e4-a162-121d06ca77f1_story.html

  8. Katnis says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    And the French response to this is what? Send them to jail where they will continue to recruit? Let them go to Syria and don’t allow them to return. I dont understand why this is not a solution. Further, close the border to Syrian refugees.

  9. Linda Rivera says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    Why is France letting back in barbaric jihadists who are training others? For the exact same reason that Britain and other Western countries are letting the barbaric jihadists back in their countries. They want the bloodthirsty, war experienced and highly trained jihadists back so they can wage violent, barbaric jihad in France, Britain, Europe and other countries. THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION.

  10. Larry A. Singleton says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    Does anybody else have problems posting on the totally shameless ad whore that is the Daily Mail?

    “dailymail.com is not responding due to long running script” is usually code for “we’re a shameless ad whore and the plague of ads that slow the website down to a crawl are our priority….NOT the users-so f**k off”

  11. Mild Bill Hickok says

    Feb 8, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    The way to cook a frog is to put it into cool water and gradually raise the temperature until it is cooked. The frog never figures it out.

  12. gravenimage says

    Feb 10, 2015 at 11:48 pm

    And, of course, this is not just France—this same thing is going in every nation in the West.

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