Medical students? What? But…but…John Kerry and Marie Harf told me that poverty and ignorance causes terrorism!
“Nine British medical students believed to be in Syria – report,” Reuters, March 21, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth):
(Reuters) – Nine British medical students have travelled to Syria, apparently to work in hospitals controlled by Islamic State, Britain’s Observer newspaper reported on Saturday.
The group of four women and five men crossed into Syria from Turkey last week, having travelled from Sudan where they had been studying, said the story, published on the website of the Observer’s sister paper, the Guardian.
It quoted Turkish opposition politician Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, who had met members of the students’ families who were trying to persuade the students to return.
Britain’s security services estimate that some 600 Britons have gone to Syria or Iraq to join militant groups, including the man known as “Jihadi John”, who has appeared in several Islamic State beheading videos.
Islamic State’s attempt to create a theocratic Sunni Muslim ‘caliphate’ by violent means has attracted thousands of recruits from Europe and elsewhere….
harbidoll says
It say the desire to kill, rape, torture & loot comes only from poor, uneducated, disadvantaged people is “Classist”.& elitist snobs. Anyone who says such things should be “called out”>
Shane says
Agreed! It is devotion to Islam which causes jihadism in Muslims, not poverty. Osama bin Laden was rich, and many rich Muslims finance terrorism. It is the peaceful Muslims who are perverting Islam, the religion of jihad, not the violent Muslims.
friendlypig says
Apparently they were studying in the Sudan, that hotbed of democracy, at the time.
wallace says
Meanwhile back at home,Exposed: Star Tory candidate plotted with race thugs to stage fake EDL demo in cynical bid to win votes
Star Asian Tory candidate planned fake English Defence League demo
Afzal Amin promised a salary to the EDL to win him up to 4,000 voters
Scheme would have seen thugs plan phoney march against ‘mega-mosque’
EDL would then have called the rally off and Amin would have taken credit
Conservative Party in disarray in key seat just weeks before the Election
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3005845/Exposed-Star-Tory-candidate-plotted-race-thugs-stage-fake-EDL-demo-cynical-bid-win-votes.html#ixzz3V75MMuY5
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ECAW says
I hope Robinson and Eddowes can sue the Mail for calling them racist thugs, which they are not.
abad says
And they all specialize in head removal
Jerry says
Dr Mohamad bin-Laden-Mengele I presume?
crixus says
“British medics”????
These are Sudanese assylum speakers who benefitted from a free education in the UK and then went to Khartoum to learn medicine.
Why have these people got British passports?