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Now between 5,000 and 6,000 Muslims from Europe waging jihad in Syria

Apr 13, 2015 12:38 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic-State9But don’t ask Muslim communities to do anything about this — that will only lead to Muslims joining the Islamic State. With nonsensical analysis like that ruling the day, it’s no wonder we’re in the fix we’re in.

“EU Underestimates Number of Westerners Fighting for Jihad,” Sputnik International, April 13, 2015:

Almost 1,500 French citizens have traveled to Syria to join jihadi groups – putting the number of Europeans fighting in the Middle East at around 6,000.

However this figure, according to Czech European Commissioner for Justice, Věra Jourová, could be a big underestimate.

Věra Jourová told French newspaper Le Figaro that despite official estimates, between 5,000 and 6,000 EU nationals had traveled to Syria, and that number could be “highly undervalued” because of the difficulty of tracking foreign fighters abroad.

EU Must Understand Extremism

Recently, Turkish security officials were handed a list of ten thousand potential names of people who might attempt to use the country’s border to enter Syria.

And it’s Turkey’s geographical position and long border it shares with Syria and Iraq that makes the country such a convenient transit point for western foreign fighters crossing the border to join Islamic State extremists.

Counter-terrorism expert, Professor Hamed El-Said from Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, says controlling the border “requires enormous amount of human, financial and military resources, which no one country alone can bear and countries must share intelligence.”

However, in order to tackle radicalization and prevent more European citizens from traveling to Turkey to join Islamic State, Professor El-Said says that European countries need to: “develop a better understanding for conditions conducive to radicalisation and extremism that lead individuals to commit a violent extremist act, either nationally or in foreign countries.”…

Indeed so. In an honest manner.

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Filed Under: Eurabia, European Union, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Věra Jourová


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  1. Don McKellar says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 12:49 pm

    Actually, those saying that trying to get moslem communities to do something about this rapidly escalating problem will only lead to more of the problem, is absolutely correct. But not for the nonsensical, nonreasons given by those who say so. No, it will lead to more young moslems racing to join the caliphate because they will, without question, become even more educated about the Islamic State and how it is the purest form of Islam on the planet right now. After all, as Mohammad is presented as the “perfect man”, no other “country” is following his example and teachings more correctly or exactingly than the Islamic State is. So in this case, actual education about the Islamic State makes it stronger within the moslem world, though would also result in its weakening in the modern, advanced world. But then that’s ALWAYS the case with Islam, isn’t it?

  2. wayne g says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 6:26 pm

    The face of ISIS every one ignores…graphic!

  3. abad says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    Hey if they leave Europe that’s great. But those European nations should prohibit them from returning.

  4. Renee says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    No U turns please

  5. Rafael says

    Apr 13, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    I believe these europeans do not go to Isis because they are attracted by Islam im sure most dont care about that crap.These are individuals given a chance to do violence on a world they have a score to keep
    without the chance to land in jail for their lifetime.These are the guys that blame everybody else for their
    personal problems but rarely look into themselves or make decisions towards fixing their world before
    trying to change the world around them.They have an image on their minds that they will be hailed as heroes in Isis,but far from it muslim culture will never recognize or trust somebody from another culture
    they will put up with you as long as you do what they say and they will get rid of you once you are no longer needed

    • JeffS says

      Apr 14, 2015 at 4:21 pm

      Exactly. The islamic State’s members don’t care about Islam at all, just violence. That’s why violent people of all stripes are welcomed into the Islamic state with open arms. The Islamic State isn’t Islamic at all! It’s a motley crew of violent Jews, Christians, Hindus, Atheists, Animists, Buddhists, and a few so-called Muslims. Yes, an ecumenical, violent Kumbaya, so to speak. /sarc

  6. Rainman says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 12:40 am

    Violent Muslims who want to leave Europe and America? Nooooooooooo problem. As long as they aren’t allowed back.
    Rainman…..

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