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13-year-old Muslim boy from Germany caught on Turkish-Syrian border trying to join the Islamic State

Apr 18, 2016 12:18 pm By Robert Spencer

Think about all the Muslims who must have helped this boy get all the way from Germany to the Turkish-Syrian border. And no one seems to have said to him, “Wait! Think again and turn away! John Kerry says that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam!” And now that he is going to be sent back to Germany, how can authorities be sure that they aren’t sending him back to the very people who inspired him to make the trip in the first place? And what will he do in Germany in a few years when he feels the call of jihad again?

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“13-Year-Old Boy Caught Trying to Join Islamic State,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, April 16, 2016:

A 13-year-old boy from Germany was caught on the Turkish-Syrian border on his way to joining the Islamic State (ISIS).

Authorities have returned the boy, now 14, to Bavaria after he started his long journey nine months ago to join the Islamic state in Syria. After several months in a Turkish detention centre he has now returned home.

The teen, who grew up in Munich, was looking to go on jihad with the fighters of ISIS and expected to be sent back to Germany to carry out potential terrorist attacks reports Die Welt.

A spokesman for the German Federal police said that the boy, whose family are said to originally be from Iraq, flew from Ankara on Thursday night. Accompanied by Turkish police for the entirety of the flight, he was handed over to the custody of police in Munich where he remains.

At the airport he was allowed a brief visit from his mother, though the Munich youth office refused to give her custody of her son until a full investigation can be completed.

Media sources have found little information about the identity of the teen radical, but have reported that he is currently being held in a youth detention facility in Munich. A police spokesman said that he will also be vigorously questioned by officials of the German Federal Security agency for any ties to the Islamic State he may have.

Reports have also suggested that the boy used his family connections in Turkey to aid his plan to join the terrorist group. It is said that the 13-year-old’s aunt actively helped him and tried to smuggle him across the border from Turkey into Syria.

His aunt is said to have left him at the border where he was arrested by police shortly after. The police were able to arrest the aunt soon after they found out about her involvement, and are looking to charge her with supporting a terrorist group as well.

The boy is said to have been radicalized by Salafist preachers in Munich long before he made the attempted journey to Syria.  Only a few weeks before he left the country the boy was apparently handing out leaflets on behalf of a local Salafist group as part of a campaign in the centre of the city….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    “The boy is said to have been radicalized by Salafist preachers in Munich…”

    “… long before he made the attempted journey to Syria.”

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 7:32 pm

      And he’s **thirteen**.

      So when did he start sopping up all this jihad preaching?

      When do Muslim papas start taking their little boys to the nearest mosque…??

  2. Jay Boo says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    Qur’an in left hand.
    At least he subconsciously knows what the pages are to be used for.
    Doing his call to Islamic duty.

  3. Angemon says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:02 pm

    Let the boy go to Syria and make sure his family follows. At best, they’re incapable of looking after their own, at worst, they facilitated his “radicalization”.

  4. Justsayn says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    The correct term is not “radicalized”. The more accurate term is “activated”. He merely activated his pre-existing Islamic beliefs.

    • Red Bee says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 1:30 pm

      Thank you for the term “activate”. This is what is happening. Unlike ideologies like communism, fascism, nazism and so forth Islam seem to me to have a two step way of brainwashing. First, it prepares the emotional ground and then it plants the cerebral content as I argue on my website: The (* machine: http://redbee.website

  5. Red Bee says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:15 pm

    A 13 year old formed its view of reality with what it has been provided with by adults who are responsible for its wellbeing. The boy is a victim. A victim of Islam to be precise. How? I explain on my website: The (* machine: http://redbee.website/

  6. Charli Main says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:50 pm

    What was this stupid boy thinking of !!!!!
    Hasn’t his local imam told him, that his place is in Germany, fighting, killing and raping vile infidels. His Islamic duty is to turn Germany into Dar al Islam, not go of on a jolly to Syria.

  7. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 2:33 pm

    Following the link to the original article in _Die Welt_ to learn more about the device strapped to the head of the juvenile jihadi shown in the photo above, the news-seeker may be distracted by a link to
    http://www.welt.de/satire/article154300238/Kim-Jong-un-stellt-Strafantrag-gegen-Boehmermann.html
    in which Kim Jong-un praises Frau Merkel for her support of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose safe space had been disturbed by a rude German poet (shades of Asma bint Marwan!). It looks like Ankara, Berlin, and Pyongyang are forming an Axis of Strenuous Poetry Criticism.

  8. SpiritOf1683 says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 2:38 pm

    He should be on his way to Damascus straight into the waiting hands of Assad’s forces and not heading back to Bavaria. What use will he be to Germany?

  9. linnte says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    Shades of Jihad to come. Germany and all of the EU has this to look forward to in just a few years. All of ISIS dreams will come true and thousands upon thousands of EU CITIZENS will be the perfect age for war. Good bye Europe. I say this now, because it will be too late soon. And intervention by America and Australia will be useless and too late.

    Can we bomb Mecca now?

  10. Jesse says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 7:37 pm

    Ive only recently really began to dig into this whole muslim terrorism situation, in the fact that it may be more inherent to their religion than just radical extremists. However, I always remain a skeptic and rational thinker and I sometimes wonder about the villianization of muslims being a propaganda tactic. This photo for instance. It seems staged, too perfect, very visual as if it was prepared to be impactful. I dont know, I welcome discussion, thanks.

    • linnte says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 12:13 am

      Read the Qur’an. That is your anchor in regards to Islam. We all here can talk our heads off, but until you read for yourself, you will always doubt what is being said. And that is OK! It is what any rational, sane person would do. Many time, the photos are stock photos. I don’t know if this one is the wee 13 year old who wanted to become an ISIS member. I am sure others would vouch for the “stock photo” idea too. The point of the photo is simply to put into perspective just how young 13 really is.

      You can find a free Qur’an on line. Look up Islamway.com. That’s where I got my first copy. Then I bought a Qur’an from Amazon-the same kind that Robert Spencer uses: it is by Mawdudi. Good luck!

      • Jesse says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 12:55 am

        Thank you! I will have to read it! As well as the holy bible. Which I haven’t been able to make my way through tbh. It will be worth it. Always think for yourselves.

        • linnte says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 1:12 am

          A word of warning though. I found the Qur’an the most absolute boring book ever. Read it anyway even if it hurts! Hahahaha! 🙂

        • Lexa456 says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 3:43 am

          @linnte: same here! I thought I’d be braindead by the end of it, so I quit. Now I feel like I shoud continue, although I know enough already.

          The bible is so much easier, even easing, to read in comparison. I love to read it randomly every now and then. Always a great experience to read the words of Jesus and to understand how they are wise, and even fit into our time. The Bible is broadly love, the Koran is thoroughly brainwashing.

        • linnte says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 3:53 am

          Lexa, I thought for sure the Qur’an would read like the Bible. WRONG! Quite often my jaw would literally drop from the sick things I read in it. Now when any Muslim says the Qur’an is a beautiful book, I KNOW they are lying AND crazy.

  11. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    From the article – “The boy is said to have been radicalized by Salafist preachers in Munich long before he made the attempted journey to Syria.”

    ‘Salafist preachers in Munich”.

    WHERE in Munich?

    In the street? In a ‘bookshop’? In an ‘Islamic school’ aka madrasa/ brainwashing centre? Or… in a MOSQUE?

    WHAT MOSQUE did this boy’s family – including extended family – attend?

    And why is it still in operation?

    It should have been surprise-searched *yesterday*.

    And it ought to be shut down and then razed to the ground.

    Every time one of these creatures from within an Allah Gang colony in an Infidel country is identified as a/ planning to go off and join Islamic State or b/ having actually *gone* and joined Islamic State (or, for that matter, any *other* jihad terror outfit), the mosque or mosques that service their ‘colony’ in said infidel land *must* be surprise-searched. And if that search uncovers even the smallest trace of explosives or illegal drugs, or of anything else criminal/ illegal/ seditious, the imam gets the third degree … ideally followed by instant deportation (and stripping of citizenship if he has inveigled same) and the razing of the mosque or mosques.

    The first country that starts doing that – be that country in the first world or the third world – will start cutting its mohammedan mob down to size pretty fast. Say, 500 jihadis waving passports from Infidel-Country-A are discovered to have joined Islamic State. Fine: that could mean that within Infidel-Country-A a LOT of mosques aka Forward Operating Bases/ Forts/ Magazines/ Arsenals end up as piles of rubble. And a lot of imams and sheikhs and such find themselves, sans papers, getting the boot.

  12. Dom107 says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 6:22 am

    All Western leaders should be force fed the Qur’an so that they stop their ignorant statements about Islam being a beautiful religion of peace.
    The only peace this book allows is the peace of total submission and slavery,a kind of Pax Romana except the Romans were quite tolerant of religions and embraced àspects of all of them as long as you occasionally paid homage to Caesar.
    As for the rationalist gentleman who said this was a propaganda site.Yes it is but daily events keep justifying the harsh words.
    The terrorist events are everything to do with Islam and they are inspired and motivated by it .Western ostriches still have their heads in the sands waiting to have them cut off !!!

  13. David says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 9:05 am

    What kind of family could raise this child? That he would think it was his duty at age 13 to join up with the SATANIC STATE?
    These his duty was to join a band of rapist and murders?
    It boggles the mind! But, that is what islam is all about!!!

  14. steve says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 11:54 am

    Phew !! Glad the little bastard is heading to Syria and death? could have been worse, he might have been one the 40 ‘Unaccompanied Young Muslims’ that were housed at the bottom of my road overlooking an infants school in Whitstable recently…..

  15. Rachel Cohen says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 5:25 pm

    This godless thirteen year old is a young man–he is completely responsible for his beliefs and actions–he should be executed!

  16. Jerry says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 3:11 am

    As a thirteen year old Muslims he is already old enough to emulate his righteous prophet by ravishing nine year old girls (if not six years old) and carry a suicide vest all the way to the gates of Paradise (if not, more likely Hell) masturbating in anticipation of having a blast while meeting with his promised seventy two virgins by the rivers of wine (or more likely of blood).

    And can’t even call his “prophet” a liar, because in the last fourteen hundred years no dead Jihaddis ever came back to life to confirm the tales told them by their beloved “prophet” or their imams (or to complain of having encountered non-delivery).

    But the stories must be just as true as the multitude offers of unearned riches I was receiving over many years years and continue to receive today.

    Imagine, if I were a true believer, I could not only have been a multi-billionaire by now, but I could have shared my bed each night with seventy virgins instead of the same (now) old woman I have been sharing my bed with for more than the last fifty years.

    And she can’t be a true believer either, because more than half a century ago she already told me, in response to another religion’s birth story: We all know who the mother was, but only God knows for sure who exactly was the father.

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