“Nearly 30,000 foreign recruits have now poured into Syria, many to join the Islamic State, a doubling of volunteers in just the past 12 months and stark evidence that an international effort to tighten borders, share intelligence and enforce antiterrorism laws is not diminishing the ranks of new militant fighters.”
But don’t be concerned. The New York Times will always find a learned analyst who will tell us we are winning: “ISIS no longer has the momentum in its core territory of Syria and Iraq,” said Peter Neumann, director of the International Center for the Study for Radicalization at King’s College London. “It’s no longer the ever-expanding jihadist utopia that it seemed to be.” No, contemporary Britain more deserves that accolade.
“Thousands Enter Syria to Join ISIS Despite Global Efforts,” by Eric Schmitt and Somini Sengupta, New York Times, September 26, 2015:
WASHINGTON — Nearly 30,000 foreign recruits have now poured into Syria, many to join the Islamic State, a doubling of volunteers in just the past 12 months and stark evidence that an international effort to tighten borders, share intelligence and enforce antiterrorism laws is not diminishing the ranks of new militant fighters.
Among those who have entered or tried to enter the conflict in Iraq or Syria are more than 250 Americans, up from about 100 a year ago, according to intelligence and law enforcement officials.
President Obama will take stock of the international campaign to counter the Islamic State at the United Nations on Tuesday, a public accounting that comes as American intelligence analysts have been preparing a confidential assessment that concludes that nearly 30,000 foreign fighters have traveled to Iraq and Syria from more than 100 countries since 2011. A year ago, the same officials estimated that flow to be about 15,000 combatants from 80 countries, mostly to join the Islamic State.
That grim appraisal coincides with the scheduled release on Tuesday of a six-month, bipartisan congressional investigation into terrorist and foreign fighter travel, which concludes that “despite concerted efforts to stem the flow, we have largely failed to stop Americans from traveling overseas to join jihadists.”
Other parts of the Obama administration’s policies on Syria and for combating the Islamic State have suffered significant setbacks, as well….
A small but growing number of defectors from the Islamic State are risking reprisals and imprisonment to speak out about their disillusionment with the extremist group, according to a report published this month by the International Center for the Study for Radicalization at King’s College London.
“ISIS no longer has the momentum in its core territory of Syria and Iraq,” said Peter Neumann, director of the center and a professor of security studies at King’s College. “It’s no longer the ever-expanding jihadist utopia that it seemed to be.”
In Britain, more than 750 people have traveled to take part in terrorist-related activity in Syria and Iraq, up from about 500 a year ago. About half of those have returned home, raising fears that they could carry out attacks on British soil. And since September 2014, 34 countries, including the United States, have arrested foreign terrorist fighters or aspirants. The United States has active criminal cases against almost 50 foreign fighter suspects….
Most countries have passed laws to restrict “incitement” to terrorist acts, but in some places those laws are so broad that they prevent free expression. Most countries, however, do not have laws that enable them to prosecute those suspected of planning travel to a country to commit terrorist acts or receive terrorist training; of the 21 countries, only five had such laws.
Amid the spate of new laws, human rights groups warn of a possible backlash if governments go too far in muzzling dissent and in turn, send even more of their citizens into the arms of radical extremists….
“Don’t fight the jihadis, it will just make more jihadis.”

Alarmed Pig Farmer says
But don’t be concerned. The New York Times will always find a learned analyst who will tell us we are winning
It’s a small step from objective analyst to abjective analist. These guys, the latter, have been one step behind the ball the whole game. The NYT is the outfit that missed on tens of millions killed under Uncle Joe, so their authority is permanently impugned, or at least it should be. But what of the similarly clown like analyses we see in the WSJ and other major sources, especially the Fox RINO TV channels.
Missing on millions of dead innocents in Russia is one thing, missing on the unitary expansion international of Moslem hegemony is far more dangerous to us personally.
Jay Boo says
— think about it.
How is Syria feeding 30,000 foreign recruits?
International aid
particolor says
WITH YOUR HALAL MONEY That how !!
Jeremiah says
There are more of them in this war than there are of us. We need to recruit as well. To do this, we need to do more than to keep reporting to those who share our views. We need to reach those who have not yet read the Koran. Those who are blissfully ignorant need to know about sharia. To do that we have been given the ability to initiate referendums. For example we can ask the blissfully ignorant masses to endorse a referendum initiative that will prohibit the practice of sharia in all states. Many more voters will feel inclined to inform themselves about sharia if we do this. We must do this because we can not afford to lose.
mortimer says
Joe Average doesn’t want to learn anything. They only learn from catastrophic events like 9/11. All the families involved in 9/11 are now experts on jihad. However, they are a small group compared with the 99% who steadfastly refuse to learn about the jihad doctrine and who judge Islam by the ‘nice Muslim at work’ who disguises his jihadist sympathies.
Linde Barrera says
To Jeremiah- Thank you for your 9:50 pm post of Sep. 27, 2015. I love your idea. Where do I sign up to volunteer? Please walk me through the steps so I see the whole picture. Who is the person to contact in my home state of NY? Seriously, I would volunteer 3 days a week to get your idea enacted in NY.
Love Freedom says
For some ideas abt this, you might do an IN search for Congresswoman Sue Myrick (NC-R), who several years ago proposed anti-shariah wording in the visa paperwork for foreigners legally entering America. Her legislation didn’t get any traction, to my knowledge. (BTW, I’ve enjoyed your informative and passionate comments here for many years–I’m pretty much a “lurker”..lol)
Jeremiah says
Thanks Linde. Anybody interested in referendums against sharia should inform “Special Operations Speak” or “Act For America”. I will do the same.
Valerie says
I try to educate my liberal friends and relatives with basic facts on sharia law, the Koran and Hadith. Send them news articles about what’s happening in the world – strictly facts! I’ve been called every name under the sun and consequently have had to remove names from my mailing list. I believe that people need to be educated from the bottom up, thinking about having house parties for this purpose. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Michael Copeland says
This little note can be printed out and give it to people:
WHAT ISLAM INSTRUCTS FOR NON-MUSLIMS
Between us and you animosity and hatred forever 60:4
Allah does NOT LOVE the non-muslims. 30:45
Allah is the ENEMY of non-muslims. 2:98
KILL the non-muslims wherever you find them. 9:5
The Koran is part of Islamic law.
Its teachings are “universal and trans-time”.
One who denies any verse has to be killed.
The killing can be done penalty-free by anyone.
Love Freedom says
Good suggestion! Kudos to all who run this website and all who consistently do what they can to inform the uninformed abt the threat from Islime. We will keep doing it!
“Islam 101” is an excellent concise, but detailed history of Mahomet and how he started Izslime.
I also suggest emailing/telling about the link below to everyone you know or who you might happen to talk with (perhaps in a checkout line at grocery store, out and about, etc). If we don’t keep doing it, who will?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam-101
mortimer says
The lesson to be learned here is that POLITICIANS and POLICE and SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES CANNOT learn about jihad or Islam from POLITICAL SCIENCE alone! No.
They must learn the jihad doctrine from Islam’s source texts and from authentic teachers of Islam’s doctrines…BUT THEY REFUSE TO DO SO!
We must continue to demand that our politicians learn the jihad doctrine. We must ask them to start learning and prepare a curriculum to deprogram jihadists out of Islam.
mortimer says
BTW … the two jihadists in the picture are carrying M16A2 American assault rifles (old model) with top-mounted carrying grip. I’d like to know how in hell they got ’em and where they get the ammo!
That should make every Westerner as mad as hell if they got these from Hillary!
Valerie says
They probably got them from all the equipment that Obama left behind in Iraq when he pulled the troops.
kay says
Re: “They must learn the jihad doctrine from Islam’s source texts and from authentic teachers of Islam’s doctrines. . .”
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From source texts AND history AND ANALYSTS. Not from imams. Much of Islam is about lying and making stuff up.
It’s crazy nonsense and contrary to all common sense and civilized behavior so you need good ANALYSIS.
Two words to learn and apply: Sociopathy and Psychopathy. You need the clinical definitions of these to get on top of the whole Islamofascism thing.
Well, there is a third word.: Fascism. Islam is essentially fascism. Religious Fascism.
Umm, I don’t have on hand a good text on sociopathy and psychopathy. I did see a good one some months back at the bookstore.
Here’s a short list for psychopathy: arrogance, no remorse, no empathy, deceitful, poor behavior control, irresponsibility, anti-social behavior.
I would add to that list: psychopathic ( projective ) anger, cruelty, violence, affective violence, sadism, rationalized violence, paranoid violence.
This is because I emphasize that the spectrum of psychopathy is more than just insensitivity and manipulation. A distinguishing characteristic ( in many extreme cases ) is violence, and sadism.
A perfect example is Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and how he treated Kayla Mueller. He didn’t just rape and murder her. He ripped out her fingernails and forced her to read the Koran. The Shia Muslims rape females before killing them at Evin Prison.
N.B. : I am NOT a western clinical psychologist so you don’t have to listen to me.
Just get the stuff from
http://www.politicalislam.com
and you’re basically good.
Andrew Bostom stuff can be stacked on top of the Bill Warner stuff.
Michael Benjamin says
This is the same number of volunteers who fought in the Spanish civil war. The repercussions there were amazing. One tenth of that number volunteered for the fledgeling Isreali army in 1948.
This gives an indication of how many camp followers and active and passive sympathisers.
That is alarming.
Angemon says
Oh, for f***’s sake. They ARE the ever-expanding jihadist utopia they CLAIM to be. That doesn’t mean that they only go about it militarily, or that they are obliged to keep attacking neighbouring nations. They swooped in, took advantage of existing conflict to conquer a large stretch of land, and they plan on keep expanding, as per their 2020 goal map:
http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/ISIS-MAP-329655.jpg
There’s a difference between losing momentum and planning the next move.
kay says
Re: “They ARE the ever-expanding jihadist utopia they CLAIM to be.”
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TRUTH.
It’s an expanding international network.
Things will get rough in the next five years. In different parts of Europe.
Am particularly worried about London, Rome, and Germany. And Southeast Europe.
Peter Neumann, Professor of security studies at King’s College London, sounds like a complete idiot.
Things aren’t getting better. Everything is going in the wrong direction.
If these psychopaths kick off a new jihad cycle in South Central Asia strategized from Islamic State then we must all be terrified.
Mediterranean Africa is extremely vulnerable.
A chunk of Damascus could fall and be unrecoverable. In that case Jordan is wide open.
From my standpoint the real problem is the vulnerabilities: Angela Merkel and the EU collaborators. Everything is going in the wrong direction. And these Islamic State people know what they are doing. It’s gonna get really ugly within five years.
Brent says
Europe has already fallen. With the massive influx of “refugees”, most of whom are able bodied, unaccompanied males, it will not be long before all European countries will be swarmed under. In any area where muslims obtain majority status they will disregard civil law and impose Sharia on everyone. Already there are large parts of European cities where this is the case. Malmo, Sweden is a good example. In fact, looking at the numbers, it would appear that more able bodied Muslim males have or are arriving in Europe than Europe has soldiers in their combined armies. That makes this “refugee crisis” an invasion and it will end very badly. Our own government is either willingly complicit or naively complicit in bringing about the same thing in the United States. If this continues, you will see increased criminal activity traceable to Muslim controlled areas. Then you will get ‘no go” zones, some of which already exist. Our own country will be stolen from us. It is time to fight!
Ernie says
NO Brent , Europe has a lot of problems , but we’re still here ! STILL HERE !
George McADOO says
Perhaps the allegedly perceived loss of momentum may be attributed to the invasion of Europe by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of “Muslim “refugees”, who will soon bring chaos to the Western world.
Islam is a poison that spreads wherever it is allowed to flow.
Stop it NOW, or try to stop it after you have nurtured it with kindness which Islam views as weakness and aquiescence..
Georg says
We just may have to send in James Taylor.