Belgian prosecutors say four people have been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist organization, including by funding it and recruiting people to fight with the Islamic State group in Syria.
Over two years ago, the Islamic State began its overseas operations of recruiting, training and sending jihadis to Western Europe and North America. They have been able to move more or less freely in and out of Western countries. According to counter-terrorism officials, there are now “mature, clandestine networks” which are “increasingly responding to calls to accelerate attacks globally as the group suffers setbacks at home.”
Islamic State jihadists have also infiltrated through the refugee streams of the West, and joined fellow jihadists in Western countries. This problem has been handled in such a disastrous manner all across Europe that “counterterrorism veterans in Europe and the United States” are now saying that they “warned politicians about” it, as reported in a PBS feature, “How Europe Left itself Open to Terrorism”:
Political leaders focused on addressing a humanitarian catastrophe not seen in Europe since the end of World War II, not terrorism.
Western political leaders have also focused on political correctness and getting votes; they are phobic about being called “Islamophobic” for attempting to deal with the jihad problem.
“Prosecutors: 4 held in Belgium on terrorism charges”, Associated Press, October 18, 2016:
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say four people have been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist organization, including by funding it and recruiting people to fight with the Islamic State group in Syria.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office says in a statement that the charges came after 15 homes were searched Tuesday in the Flanders cities of Antwerp, Ghent and Deinze. Prosecutors say no arms or explosives were found.
Prosecutors say 15 people were questioned, of whom four were charged. The prosecutors say there was no established link with the suicide bomb attacks, claimed by Islamic State, which killed 32 victims in Brussels in March….
Marty says
When will our politicians start telling us the truth about the latest
serious mohammedan invasion of Europe since the siege of Vienna ?
In the UK we are admitting “children” from the Calais Jungle.
The pro muslim BBC pixillates out their faces.
The Mail online shows them.
The oldest child is in his mid 30s, the youngest probably 17/18.
They are clearly armed forces deserters or jihadists.
Either way they are highly undesirable & will prove dangerous.
Not a single girl child among the lot.
Why is it it called in the UK “extreme right wing” even “racist”
to want to protect your land from muslim invasion ?
Bob says
Never! Our UK politicos’re terrified of the truth. Facing up to it will involve them in PI and islamopbic thoughts, if not action. God forbid that that should happen – far better to throw the UK to the muslim wolves, or goats!
eur says
I do not understand very well what the news or surprise. Perhaps it is that in the US perceive it differently … in Europe this is not news, only in Spain where I live are arrested several Moroccans (some with Spanish papers) every week!!!. In prison there are hundreds of jihadists, this is no longer news, it is our new reality. The invasion is real, is no joke.
Marty says
Well said.
Our US friends worry about the odd mohammedan killer,
rightly so, after Saudi Arabia’s 9/11 atrocity.
However, in Europe & the UK there are daily attacks &
killings, often barely reported.
Thanks to Merkel & the leftist forces in the UK we are being steadily
invaded. Even worse, we our being outbred in our own lands by the
dimmest & most violent culture on earth.
August West says
Eur nobody that is on this site is surprised by this particular arrest.
Most Americans (that do not read this site) are unaware of the invasion of the EU and associated Jihad attacks. This is not particularly surprising. I continue to have daily discussions with Americans (across the country) who deny that the recent Jihad attacks are the product of Jihad, are unaware of what is in the Koran, who think that Islam is really the same as Christianity, and think IS is not Islamic because they kill Muslims. There are a lot (perhaps majority) of people who still think this.
What is surprising is that many within the EU appear to still be in a state of denial about the fact that Islam is not compatible with Western society and is at the root of the problem. There are many in the EU that deny that they have been invaded.
New leadership needs to be elected on both sides of the Atlantic in order to combat Islam. I would say that we are still pretty far away from that on either side of the Atlantic.
The former Communist Block nations are the only ones that seem to know what is going on.
eur says
yeah.
Most people in the West think the only difference is that they pray differently and are more religious. They know nothing of the Koran, the sunna, sira, or history. The worst thing is that they are not interested.
minorities living in North Africa and in the Middle East live in a perpetual state of stockholm syndrome. They have lived for generations in fear, knowing they could not protest. What is happening in the West is due to ignorance and believe that it is impossible to lose our freedom. People start to worry when their neighborhoods are beginning to change, do not understand the depth of the problem. That violence by Islam that creates totalitarian societies is what they are pretending to recreate in the West , no freedom of speech the first…but their gola is ….get different laws. ISIS, al qaeda, the Abu Sayyaf, boko haram … are not the problem, are the consequence. The problem, the cause ..is Islam and that lord of war named Mohammed.
August West says
I don’t watch PBS regularly, so I am surprised that PBS was pulled together this feature.
It does have the disinformation such as revenge as a primary motive for Jihadists. For example, a Belgian counter terror official was quoted as saying: (in referring to Abrini):
“His main motivation for participating in all this was revenge. Not Islam. He doesn’t know Islam. He’s a criminal … a street punk”
The article also refers to “radicalization”, but it unable to draw the rather obvious inference that the process of “radicalization” amounts to converting people to Islam and educating them on the Ideology.
It also leaves out the fact that many Jihadists are not “street punks” and do not have revenge as a motive.
Other than these omissions, I did find the article to be surprisingly candid in referring to Muslims generally with reference to specific Muslim population centers in Europe. I was also glad to see the bar chart from The Hague. The article never gives a total number but if you add the low end range estimates given in the chart you get about 3772 fighters from EU in Iraq and Syria. Most would agree this is a low estimate.
I also found the PBS piece to be remarkably candid in the problems with the EU security apparatus. Swiss Cheese is the best analogy that I can come up with.
At some point a source like PBS is going to have to come to grips with the fact that
Radicalization has a strong component of Islamic Education associated with it.
When I read Radicalization I mentally substitute Islamic Education, and I wonder how many others do the same.
While the article was white washed and has much of the standard propaganda (revenge as a motive, uneducated street punks etc), I found it to be a measureable improvement over the standard “everything is ok and we are all safe and Muslims are harmless” BS
David says
Yes! Invaders are flowing in fast and furious. Aided and abetted by the political class that has been in the pay of EVIL for decades.
Cash flowing from the massive Saudi teat of plenty has tainted the mind and souls of thousands of our “leaders” for a very long time .
At times I’m ready to believe that our Entire Government is in the pocket of the Saudi royal family. Else why this feaver to continue to import enemy combatants under the disguise of Refugees ?
This will cause nothing but trouble and sorrow for the people of America. And our “leaders” know it!
It won’t be long, we are on the door steps of a long and bloody war. A war to rid our government and population of this dreaded Evil Influence.
And I hope, before it’s over, the perpetrators of this crime are brought to Justice.
Angemon says
Indeed.
Jay Boo says
Islam DIRTY
Muslims won’t admit this TRUTH.
They all know it.
Very DIRTY
Muhammad FILTH — They all know it.