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Number of Muslims from UK who have joined the Islamic State now up to 1,500

Jan 18, 2016 10:25 am By Robert Spencer

The British government, meanwhile, still clings to the witless and utterly unfounded notion that these people have been “radicalized” by forces that have nothing to do with Muslim communities in Britain, and that this “radicalization” can be prevented by government steps to “integrate” Muslims by giving them job opportunities. The longer their denial and willful ignorance continues, the worse conditions in Britain will become.

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“1,500 Britons have fled to join ISIS in Syria – and 800 have successfully got in, Hammond admits,” by Jason Groves, Daily Mail, January 16, 2016:

Almost 1,500 British citizens have tried to enter Syria to join Islamic State and other terror groups, Philip Hammond said last night.

The Foreign Secretary revealed an estimated 800 people, mostly jihadists and family members, have successfully entered the war-torn country in the last four years. Roughly half are still thought to be there.

But Mr Hammond revealed that a further 600 have been stopped in the same period.

Some have been halted as they tried to leave Britain, while others have been seized on planes and trains arriving in Istanbul.

Of those captured abroad, some have been returned to the UK while others have been detained in Turkey for breaching laws forbidding illegal entry to Syria.

Turkey is the main route for British extremists trying to join the fanatics in Syria. Of the 50 British fighters known to have died, almost all arrived in Syria via Turkey.

Mr Hammond, who is visiting Turkey for talks on border control and dealing with the refugee crisis, said Islamic State’s recruitment drive was also being hit by the success of western air strikes on its ‘capital’ Raqqa, in northern Syria, and other strongholds.

‘Approximately 800 Brits have been to Syria, of whom half are still there,’ Mr Hammond said. But on top of that 800 we have stopped another 600.

‘There is evidence they are finding it difficult to recruit to the brigades in Raqqa because of the high attrition rate of foreign fighters. Not just those targeted in UK drone strikes, but US strikes against prominent targets, including foreign fighters.’

Mr Hammond’s comments come amid embarrassment for ministers and the police over the case of Siddhartha Dhar, a terror suspect who slipped out of Britain in September 2014 to join Islamic State (IS) while on police bail.

Scotland Yard was humiliated this month when it emerged Dhar – now known as Abu Rumaysah – was the prime suspect as the new ‘Jihadi John’ in the latest gruesome IS execution video….

David Cameron said this week he would now consider a change in law to make it a condition of police bail that terror suspects surrender their passports.

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  1. Don McKellar says

    Jan 18, 2016 at 10:36 am

    Only 1500? That must be grossly underreported for public relations purposes.

    And here they are with their government having a debate about banning Donald Trump from entering the UK for proposing a stop to moslems coming to the United States until they can figure out what’s going on. Of course that ultimately means a discussion about Islam, its nature and its texts There is nothing that scares moslems and their left-fascist lackeys more — though the left-fascist lackeys are only scared because it’s politically correct to be scared, and really don’t have much of a concept of what’s in those texts or the nature of Islam. They are that idiotic.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jan 18, 2016 at 2:47 pm

      Allen West has figured out what’s going on:
      “They’re doing exactly what this book says”.

  2. ainu888 says

    Jan 18, 2016 at 11:47 am

    Have these people not heard? Daesh have cut salaries by 50%, due to air strikes on their cash cow oil refineries and wells.

    So it will be 36 virgins now**.

    ** Quip is not originally mine. Just copied off the internet.

    • Oliver says

      Jan 19, 2016 at 6:13 pm

      Great; copied; sending to my friends who despise Muzzies.

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 18, 2016 at 12:05 pm

    Islam is normatively CONSPIRATORIAL and PREDATORY and BRUTAL. Why is so hard for the UK authorities to see it.

    It’s all in the source texts of Islam: the Sira, hadiths, Koran, canonical commentaries and Sharia law.

    There is no excuse for the Western elites not to ‘get it’. They have merely to read the Islamic source texts.

    • marble says

      Jan 18, 2016 at 12:17 pm

      I believe they did get it. A brief analysis leads more to believe that they want to give it to us.

      • marble says

        Jan 18, 2016 at 12:21 pm

        Correction, somehow “me”, fifth word, second sentence, came out as “more”. Have to check for green card of my secretary, showed up out of nowhere yesterday.

  4. Angemon says

    Jan 18, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    I don’t get it. They stop some of them from going, thus increasing the chances of a jihad attack on home soil, and they do nothing to stop them from returning, or at least don’t press charges to people who broke the law and went to a place law enforcement would bar them from going to.

    What do the people in 10 Downing Street think it’ll come of it?

    • John Thomas says

      Jan 19, 2016 at 7:27 am

      Let ’em go, but don’t let ’em back. Perhaps we could subsidise their one way tickets. Will be the last of their benefits.

      • Oliver says

        Jan 19, 2016 at 6:17 pm

        I agree- and think that the US should do the same.

        One way; no citizenship or green cards; Muslim paradise of your choice-Lebanon/Iran/Iraq/Syria/Somalia/Jordan/Pakistan/Turkey.

        I would leave out any such as Kuwait, SA, Gulf States ( except Qatar- they suck) and also leave out Brunei–these places have money, slime might get benefits.

  5. SpiritOf1683 says

    Jan 18, 2016 at 3:29 pm

    So Cameron thinks its a good idea to take their passports off them before they go to stop them going. This clown hass got it backwards as usual. By all means go, but they should never be allowed back.

    • robert says

      Jan 19, 2016 at 7:02 pm

      it would be so easy to collect their passports AS they board the aircraft so they would not be allowed back.

  6. lester says

    Jan 19, 2016 at 3:11 pm

    Good bye UK, you are becoming a “has been” by allowing the cancerous invasion of ideology destroying any vestige of Godly hope for a future you could have possibly attained by following the Word of the bible!
    God judges Nations as well as individuals.

    • Pumbar says

      Jan 20, 2016 at 3:26 am

      Yes,, bye. Keep clutching that Bible when you’re getting your head sawn off. That’ll fix it.

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