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Moroccan Islamic State fighter was “perfectly integrated” into Italy

Jan 26, 2016 3:56 pm By Robert Spencer

“The young Moroccan and his family were perfectly integrated into our community.” No authorities, however, will consider it necessary to ponder the implications of that fact. Nor do they appear particularly concerned about the fact that the Islamic State has told its operatives in the West to appear to be fully integrated.

Moroccan 'foreign fighter' nabbed in Calabria

More on this story. “Moroccan ‘foreign fighter’ nabbed in Calabria,” ANSA, January 25, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

(ANSA) – Rome, January 25 – Italian police on Monday arrested a Moroccan ‘foreign fighter’ near the Calabrian town of Cosenza.

Hamil Mehdi, a 25-year-old street vendor, denied being a member of ISIS and said he had recently visited Turkey “only to pray”.

Cosenza police chief Luigi Liguori said anti-terrorism DIGOS law enforcement agents had been trailing Mehdi since last July, after Turkish authorities blocked him at the Istanbul airport and sent him back to Italy.

Authorities said Mehdi was in Istanbul attempting to reach Syria to join ISIS.

Liguori said the investigation was “very tight and across the board, without neglecting any detail”.

Italian authorities said their subsequent investigation revealed Mehdi was planning to move to Belgium, had a “dogged interest for images, films and other propaganda content referring to ISIS”, and “a natural propensity” to join the ISIS cause.

In Luzzi, the Calabrian town where Mehdi and his family have their home, Mayor Manfredo Tedesco said he and local residents are surprised by the arrest.

“The young Moroccan and his family were perfectly integrated into our community,” said Tedesco.

“Our entire community is truly speechless”….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Italy, Morocco Tagged With: Calabria, Cosenza, Hamil Mehdi


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  1. Infidela says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    This is off topic but I want to talk about this.

    This for when people call you an islamophobe. The word Islamophobe was coined in 1918 by two French speaking authors, Alphonse Dinet, and Bin Ibrahim in their book of Muhammad, called The Prohet Muhammad, to describe MUSLIMS WHO HAVE A FEAR OF ISLAM. That’s right, MUSLIMS, who have a fear of Islam. Because they’re are MANY musllms who fear Islam. Liberal muslims, secular muslims, feminist muslims, and even though they didn’t say so at the time, gay musllms. There are many muslims who FEAR Islam. Women who’ve been raped and fear being stoned to death for adultery, women, muslims who like to drink alcohol, etc.

    So when some-one calls you an islamophobe, say that you can’t be an islamophobe, because you are not a muslim.

    • Jan Sobieski says

      Jan 26, 2016 at 7:08 pm

      This past July (2015) my family and I were traveling from the Greek Island Chios, an island very near Turkey used by refugees from ISIS, Islamic wars, and economic disappoints, to the Port of Piraeus (Athens) on an overnight ferry. There were many undocumented Muslim (and maybe non-Muslims too) refugees on the ferry and that morning getting off the ferry in Piraeus it first dawned on me that most Islamophobes are Muslims — these Muslims were fleeing from Islam. I remembered Muslims back in Maryland who told me they stopped going to a mosque they long enjoyed and appreciated because nowadays “…there are so many strangers, suspicious immigrants of suspect intentions, it’s just very uncomfortable..” Another Muslim told me that the mosque he first attended definitely supported Hamas terrorism, he understands Arabic fluently and said there was no doubt in his mind. He found a legitimate mosque at which the cleric reminds them periodically that he talks to the FBI often.

      • mortimer says

        Jan 26, 2016 at 7:47 pm

        “Most Islamophobes are Muslims fleeing Islam”

        A brilliant and crucial observation!

        My reply: If they are fleeing Islam they have no excuse for not realizing it is the problem, but most retain loyalty to this irrational idea. No Western country should take Muslims who maintain their loyalty, but should waylay them to another Muslim country.

  2. خَليفة says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 5:14 pm

    “A Muslim fully integrated into” … ( the Western country of your choice )

    TRANSLATION : “a jihadi in Mecca-Mode” and waiting to feel Islam has the upper hand to transform into “Medina-Mode” and go all Allahu Akbar on the kuffar

    SJS ( sudden jihad syndrome is a mental virus spread in mosques, once contracted it’s like herpes, you can’t get rid of it and it continues to spread.

  3. Angemon says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 5:55 pm

    “The young Moroccan and his family were perfectly integrated into our community,” said Tedesco.

    If only there were some explanation other than disenfranchisement that could explain why this dead-eyed animal wanted to go and join the islamic state. Alas, I guess some things are meant to be mysteries… /sarc. off

  4. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 7:28 pm

    “…’The young Moroccan and his family were perfectly integrated into our community’,” said Tedesco.
    … ‘Our entire community is truly speechless’…”

    This was a pattern of behaviour perfected by Jihadists in Algeria following the return of fighters from Afghanistan in the war against the Soviet presence. Soon the signs of the brotherhood will disappear from view in Europe and we will discover beardless, wine drinking, western dressed, popular music devotees are up to plenty of murder and mayhem.

  5. PRCS says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    ““Our entire community is truly speechless”….”

    His imam will no doubt say the same thing, or some such.

  6. Andrew says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 2:50 am

    ya even the neighbours?

  7. Sam says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 10:48 am

    The whole world is shocked by the religion of peace. I am shocked too. What can I say?

  8. linnte says

    Jan 27, 2016 at 2:04 pm

    So while the Police are following one guy “very tight and across the board without leaving any detail” a thousand other men make their way deeper into Europe unnoticed. We are outnumbered!

  9. E Ward says

    Jan 28, 2016 at 1:07 am

    The Model Immigrant
    (to the tune of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General)

    I am the very model of an integrated immigrant
    I have a job and do not qualify as just a “gimme”-grant
    (He trims his facial hair to an Italian three day stubble-o
    He is a model citizen who never gets in trouble–oh)

    I tipple Sangiovese and full bodied Fuga Passito
    I’m saving up to buy a yellow Maserati Bi-Turbo..
    (He wanders through the Forum and explores the ancient aqueducts
    But secretly he would prefer beheading corporate mucky mucks.)

    And while it’s true I browse the web for Isis porn on internet
    I have not pledged to them the losing of my precious life just yet,
    (And so we don’t know what he meant: to Isis resumes he sent–
    He is the very model of an integrated immigrant!)

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