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Netherlands: “Deradicalized” jihadist was spreading jihad messages to young Muslims

Aug 25, 2017 8:42 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A believed to be de-radicalized man spread propaganda for the jihad while working with young people in Amsterdam’s radicalization and polarization department

Bilal L was hired as a youth worker because he was deemed to “know everything about radicalization and could spot and keep young people off the jihad-road,” but instead, he was preaching the jihad doctrine to  young people, and doing so for years to boot. Who knows the damage Bilal L did as a result of the ignorance of Amsterdam authorities, who like many other Western leaders, fail to understand the nature and depth of the jihad doctrine.

There are other examples of failed deradicalization programs in the West. Less than a year ago, France’s deradicalization program was declared a failure after wasting tens of millions of taxpayer euros. It was found that “deradicalization, either in prisons or the centers… does not work because the great majority of Islamic fundamentalists do not want to be deradicalized.”

Even in Saudi Arabia, deradicalization programs are deemed to be a failure, as they are globally.

Despite the failures, the programs continue. Why? It was uncovered that such a program run by the Brooklyn Justice Department was not actually intended to deradicalize as it was pretending to do; the real goal was to “reduce the sentences of U.S. terror supporters,” so that they could be released back into society, potentially to do more harm.

Deradicalization program failures have also been noted in Britain. Three years ago, a jihadist from Britain, Mizanur Rahman, actually mocked the deradicalization program that he was sent to five years earlier when he “was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops.” He describes the program:

I’d go there, I’d sign my name, play pool with some other radicals that I was in prison with and I’d go home

He called the program a “gimmick,” and was subsequently arrested again on suspicion of jihad terror offences.

Britain eventually abandoned its efforts toward deradicalization; it finally accepted that taxpayer “money was going to groups that were sometimes sympathetic to the extremist messages they were supposed to be countering.” This is an alarming example of the proverbial fox guarding the henhouse.

Viewing jihadists in the same light as other Western criminals in seeking a “treatment approach” to prevent recidivism is flawed. Jihadists operate on Islamic religious zeal and believe that they will be rewarded in the name of Islam; the rewards for martyrdom are the highest ambition.

“Amsterdam Youth Worker Accused of Spreading Jihad Propaganda”, by Janene Pieters, Netherland Times (thanks to The Religion of Peace), August 23, 2017:

A believed to be de-radicalized man spread propaganda for the jihad while working with young people in Amsterdam’s radicalization and polarization department, the Telegraaf reports based on sources.

According to the Telegraaf, Bilal L. was convicted for preparing for a terrorist attack as a member of the Hofstad group. After serving his sentence, Amsterdam hired him as a youth worker who knew everything about radicalization and could spot and keep young people off the jihad-road. He worked in the radicalization and polarization department for years – the department under now suspended Amsterdam official Saadia A.-T.

Instead of preventing radicalization, however, he spoke well of it, according to the newspaper….

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Comments

  1. WorkingClassPost says

    Aug 25, 2017 at 8:50 am

    Getting jihad recruiters onto these deradicalization programs, is probably high on the to-do list of IS & Co.

  2. balam says

    Aug 25, 2017 at 8:54 am

    If you keep ‘PISSING’ in the desert, that would never turn the desert into an ‘OASIS’. It is just a waste of……

    • mariam rove says

      Aug 25, 2017 at 10:06 am

      Well said. M

    • Nigel GFF says

      Aug 25, 2017 at 4:30 pm

      To pursue that thought a little ..

      “It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.” (LBJ speaking J. Edgar Hoover)

      In this case the subject was inside and p…

  3. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 25, 2017 at 9:22 am

    “… Jihadists operate on Islamic religious zeal and believe that they will be rewarded in the name of Islam; the rewards for martyrdom are the highest ambition…”

    This is why Apostates From Islam regularly argue that the whole belief system needs to be punctured and jettisoned in order for Jihadists to be freed from their spell and the intoxicating religious zeal that has captivated and motivated them.

  4. Westman says

    Aug 25, 2017 at 10:24 am

    From pre-history to the present day religions only fade away through two mechanisms: uselessness and obvious incredibiliy. Primitive religions readily falter as human progress and science demonstrate the falseness of doctrinal cause and effect relationships. Some fail from demonstrations by nature or war that the revered “god” is not active or is impotent. An example would be the results of the Aztec contacts with Spain unseating the worship of a number of gods. Another is the state religion of Japan after WWII.

    Islam is destined to the scrap heap of history as its goals become obviously unreachable and desperate violence increases. It is no more than 1/5 of humanity in a connected and armed world that doesn’t agree with Islam’s objectives. Unless it modifies those objectives, which even create wars among its variations, it will become engaged in warfare so severe that Muslim nations will be destroyed; some reconstructed, and some left as the rubble of past empires. Allah’s rein, like his very late 7th century invention, is limited.

  5. John A. Marre says

    Aug 25, 2017 at 11:41 am

    It’s not the stupidity of authorities in allegedly civilized countries that is responsible for thinking that it’s possible to turn Jihadis into normal human beings.

    It’s the refusal to accept the very obvious fact that Islam is not just a religion, like all other religions. Christianity, for example, has very very little effect on the daily actions of most people who are called Christians. It’s just something silly that one does on holidays and life events.

    Islam is an entire culture. It is religion, science, politics, history, philosophy, ethics, law and medicine. It is everything, and there is nothing worthwhile outside of Islam, for its true practitioners.

    The authorities need to get rid of the silly notion that it’s possible to convert a Jihadi into someone who will not see martyrdom/killing of people as the ultimate goal in life. Are they going to trade the 72 virgins and 12 boys for a JOB, where they will have to do what a non-Muslim tells them to do? get your head out of your rear!

  6. Fred says

    Aug 26, 2017 at 5:52 am

    Didn’t realize that Europe was so far ahead of the implementation of AGENDA 21, the more liberal Countries such as Holland seem to be helped by the muslims, and don’t even know they are being over run from within.
    Sweden is all by gone, Germany as well. Where will it all stop…..guess

  7. johan elzinga says

    Aug 26, 2017 at 7:12 am

    Nice photo. Yes, part of Amsterdam is still really beautiful. But most unfortunately the City hall is compleet corrupt. Instead of doing what they promise – use the massive financial resources to help the massive unemployed on part of the muslim immigrant population by providing work, courses and learning Dutch, they prefer them to rot at home and pocket the money themselves. Gay pride was not to be called gay pride anymore, but Canal Parade. They are now part of a gender equality movement no one has asked for, but no word from this leftish government on the severe discrimination of women and gay people wherever Islam is in place. Instead, there are government funded islam schools – where on a daily basis all democratic values are pissed on.

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