“The government has largely failed to stop more than 250 Americans who have traveled overseas to join or tried to join terrorist groups, including the Islamic State group, a new congressional study concluded on Tuesday.” Why was it the government’s responsibility? Why isn’t it the responsibility of Muslim communities in the U.S.? Why does not a single mosque or Islamic school in the U.S. have a program to teach young Muslim reject the Islamic State’s understanding of Islam, despite the fact that they ostensibly reject that understanding? How many Muslims from the U.S. must go to the Islamic State before American lawmakers and law enforcement officials begin to call upon Muslims in the U.S. to institute programs or face the scrutiny from law enforcement that should ensue from their not having them?
“Congress Claims US Has Failed to Stop Americans from Joining ISIL’s Jihad,” Associated Press, October 4, 2015:
Share WASHINGTON (AP) – The government has largely failed to stop more than 250 Americans who have traveled overseas to join or tried to join terrorist groups, including the Islamic State group, a new congressional study concluded on Tuesday.
“The United States joins with the worldwide community to urge all parties in Iraq and Syria and the global community to respect and protect archaeological, historic, religious and cultural sites, including museums and archives, and reaffirm that all those who destroy important cultural property must be held accountable”, the State Department said in its release.
Oh, good. That will stop the Islamic State from destroying any more ancient Roman and Assyrian artifacts. They wouldn’t want to risk the wrath of the State Department!
More than 25,000 foreigners have flocked to Syria and Iraq since 2011 to fight with ISIS and other Islamist terrorist groups, according to US estimates.
…The foreign fighter travel to the region has increased greatly. Among European nations, Britain emerged as the highest supplier of jihadi [sic], with more than 1000 Britishers travelling to Iraq and Syria, and turning militants.
What a moronic story, even for AP. “Britishers” didn’t travel to the Islamic State, but rather Muslims from Britain who considered themselves anything but British, but rather enemies of the British and citizens only of the global caliphate. And if they hadn’t already been “militants,” they wouldn’t have gone. AP’s story gives the impression of moderate British Muslims venturing naively into the war zone, where the horrors of their surroundings quickly “radicalized” them. Nonsense.
As of July, the IS – also identified as Daesh, ISIS and ISIL – has brought in $8 million to $10 million dollars each month through its smuggling of oil and gas throughout Iraq and Syria. It did not provide details on the several dozen who have sneaked back into the United States without being arrested or monitored. It noted that several people were identified and arrested this year trying to return to the United States.
Not only has the United States-led coalition failed to check the growth of ISIS, but the world elite seem to be losing the propaganda war as well. “Gaping security weaknesses overseas-especially in Europe-are putting the USA homeland in danger by making it easier for aspiring foreign fighters to migrate to terrorist hotspots and for jihadists to return to the West”….

Alarmed Pig Farmer says
If any American Mujahidin are injured in the Jihad mass murder operations, they can come home and submit medical claims against their Obamacare accounts. If any are disabled, they can go on Social Security Disability benefits. Everything’s covered, so there will be no American Mujaihidin left out to dry should something untoward happen to any during the Jihad mass murder operations over in the Levant. It’s all good.
Except the Christians and Yazidis are perhaps not covered, except perhaps by Hassadcare and the Syrian Social Security Administration, if Bashar is highbrowed enough to look past his prejudices and help these people out.
Mirren10 says
Only 250 ?
Ah well, no problem, then.
Where did they get this number from ?
I wonder how many have gone on holiday to Turkey, and slipped across the border ?
Angemon says
You’re absolutely correct – only 250? We know they cooked the data as to make it seem ISIS was losing, so why should we believe their numbers here?
particolor says
O Boozup will have a Welcome Home Brass Band for them !! When they are through Butchering ! 🙁
boakai ngombu says
” … It did not provide details on the several dozen who have sneaked back into the United States without being arrested or monitored. …”
complicit American journalists would not provide such details
whimpy editors and publishers encouraged to forget pertinent facts
duh_swami says
The judges at Nuremberg after WW2, were very hard on those who committed crimes against humanity…If they go, leep them out…
pdxnag says
“Why isn’t it the responsibility of Muslim communities in the U.S.?”
To become a counter-Jihadi is by definition to become an apostate, subject to the Islamic/Sharia penalty of death at the hands of nearly any pious Muslim. The number of Muslim counter-Jihadis is a null set, an impossibility (but for a few liars charged with numbing the kafir with visions of nonsense about religion of peace).
Savvy Kafir says
We should encourage ALL True Believers of Islam to go to Syria, as long as it’s a one-way trip.
Rikki H says
As I keep saying, good riddance. Less radical Muslims in the US and Britain to worry about, hopefully they’ll die painfully in their precious caliphate. What we need to start doing is insuring once they’ve shown themselves to be islamofascists and pissed of to die for Allah, we make sure they NEVER come back and are never allowed back (unless the PC governments think that the returning IS fighters can be deprogrammed, although they feaw many parallels with robots I doubt this possible)
I’m glad Robert pointed out the idiocy of the comment “1000 Britishers have traveled to Syria and Iraq, they are absolutely NOT brits and stand against every principal a true brit foes, they are Muslims and will fie muslims fighting a Muslim war created by the muslim ideology…. (btw…. Britishers? Wtf are Britishers, we get called brits, limeys, british, or even tea swillers but I’ve never once heard the description” britishers” before)
Mark A says
Does the US plan to charge these 250+ people with treason, aiding and abetting the enemy, membership in a terrorist organization or some similar offences?
Does the US plan to strip these people of their citizenship? Does the US intend to let these people back into the US?
How many of these people are recent immigrants? 1st generation immigrants? 2nd generation immigrants? How many have American roots going back several generations?
These are all questions that need to be asked by Congressional investigators.
Rikki H says
It makes no difference really, among the “british muslims” we have new immigrants, 1st and 2nd generation immigrants, and white indigenous. However once they join islamic State it shouldn’t matter, their citizenship should be stripped and they should never be allowed back unless to rot in jail. They’re traitors, I wish they still gave the death sentence for that in Britain…
logoman says
Our Conservative government just stripped two Muslim terrorists of their Canadian citizenship under newly enacted changes to our anti-terrorism laws. After serving their jail time, they will be deported. Of course there was the predictable outrage of the politically correct but fortunately, the majority of Canadians agree with the government.
Walter Sieruk says
How warped and deluded all those American Muslims are to leave the United States to go overseas to Join ISIS which is a false cause that is based on a false religion. How foolish ! What folly ,what evil ,what madness. As the Bible teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” Ecclesiastes 9:3. [N.I.V.]