Two Sisters: Into the Syrian Jihad is not a “damning indictment of Western societies,” as is claimed in the title of the Express article below. It is a damning of those Westerners who are ignorant about how jihadists propagate their doctrine and operate. The blaming of Westerners for pushing Muslim youth into the jihadi camp because of racism and “Islamophobia” needs to be unequivocally challenged and rejected.
Every immigrant group in any society faces racism and even culture shock, but jihadists exploit this fact.
Adjusting to a new society is a difficult exercise. When Muslim immigrants are routinely being indoctrinated by Islamic supremacist spokesmen to believe that they are hated by “racist,” “intolerant,” “Islamophobic” white infidels, they begin to feel increasingly disenfranchised and angry.
With Muslim youth, who face belonging issues like all youth, the integration challenge is harder in the atmosphere of this propaganda. Online jihadist recruiters are exploiting already exploited youth by training them to become mujahideen, to hate and kill for heavenly rewards and martyr status. The Muslim community as a whole needs to bear responsibility and collectively speak out, which few are doing. As the article chronicles below:
the teenagers transformed from being moderate Muslims like their parents to hard-and-fast fundamentalists….The girls were radicalised by online material and…a sinister network of extremists in Oslo who set out to radicalise young people. It makes for terrifying reading
Leftists exacerbate the problem by accepting the twisted victimology narrative that is pushed even at the highest levels, including by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The “Islamophobia” canard is also a vital weapon in the jihadist propaganda war, used to divide and conquer and also used to feed young Muslims the idea that they are being victimized by Westerners.
“Two Sisters: Into the Syrian Jihad review: A damning indictment of Western societies,” by Elizabeth Archer, Express, March 16, 2018:
THE internationally bestselling author Åsne Seierstad shot to fame with The Bookseller Of Kabul, her account of living with a family in Afghanistan shortly after the Twin Towers fell.
Now the journalist-turned-author returns with Two Sisters, an investigation into the lives of two teenagers from Norway who went to Syria to join the so-called holy war or jihad.
The girls, Ayan, 19, and Leila Juma, 16, were from a Somali family but grew up on the outskirts of Oslo. And in 2013, they left their family home for Syria, making the Norwegian national news.
The book follows the girls’ father Sadiq who is desperate to reunite his family. Shortly after discovering his daughters have left, Sadiq travels to Syria in an effort to rescue them. In the process he makes friends with a smuggler who taxis people and goods across the Turkish-Syrian border and who vows to help him get the girls back.
But Sadiq soon discovers his daughters are in league with the terrorist group Islamic State. He knows that if he makes one wrong move, his own and his daughters’ lives could be in mortal danger.
As the book progresses, Seierstad tells not only of the family’s devastation but explores why two ordinary teenagers chose to leave their comfortable home to live in a war zone.
Her fascinating in-depth research shows how in the year before they left, the teenagers transformed from being moderate Muslims like their parents to hard-and-fast fundamentalists.
The girls were radicalised by online material and Seierstad exposes a sinister network of extremists in Oslo who set out to radicalise young people. It makes for terrifying reading.
Seierstad also shows how Ayan and Leila’s parents hadn’t integrated into Norwegian society and this, coupled with racism suffered by the Somali community, left the girls feeling isolated and made them an easy target for radicalisation….
David Henley says
Germany is still run by the nazi’s. running under a different name doesn’t dismiss the mentality of those in government. They still want to rule the world and have simply joined the terrorist group that want the same goal. To remove the western culture and destroy Canada and the US. The Germany of past years is still very much in tact and their wish to dominate the world is at the heart of their political agenda.
mortimer says
Henley, they are German communists. It’s the Red-Green Axis of Evil.
Germany has been allied with JIHADIST ISLAM since the beginning of the 20th century.
esther says
David Henley——-comment of the year—-the operative words. ….*) joined…. group that want THE
SAME GOAL (* (to wit—world control—supremacism.) Islam and Nazism forms a natural
alliance. Same is true of Islam and Stalinesque. communism. No single ideology can take
the WORLD——–the big time ambitious leaders know that they have to settle for alliances. Be
suspicious of any islam apologists or accommodators or GLOBALIZERS
MFritz says
Do you really believe this garbage, David Henly? Read a decent history book – or better a couple of them – and get a DECENT opinion about the truth.
It’s the fucking globalists running the show now and they don’t care about Western culture or civilisation. Only about “free trade” (for them), cheap labour and MONEY.
The nazis were mostly financed by rich industrialists, the globalists are of the same ilk, just at a bigger scale. Nations and ideologies don’t matter to them anymore, only MONEY. They think they can buy EVERYONE and EVERYHING. Even islam.
And if things really go bad – for us – they simply want to pay their way out of it. At least that’s what they believe. Except for MONEY.
StellaSaidSo says
Exactly, MFritz. The globalists run the show. They want to rule the world, and have managed to conceal their intentions from us ordinary folk; but some of us are WOKE.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Might it not be a little shortsighted to just say that the desire for money is all that these people are after? It’s far too 1 dimensional to be credible imho.
I refer you to my reply the last time this came up, where M Zuckerberg was the subject of conversation. He was shown to be a man with wide ranging and large scale plans for social change, and simply a money hungry mammon worshiper.
And again, the claim that the NSDAP were “mostly financed by rich industrialists” is simply not true. That is the same thing the communist opposition were claiming during the 1930’s, and it it no more true today than it was back then.
Ian Keshaw in his defining volume “Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris” is often to be found explaining that it is a “crass misapprehension of Hitler as no more than the stooge of the ‘real’ wielders of power, the forces of big capital.”
He does of course include the facts that a small number of industrialists supported the party:
“On 19 November, the day that Hindenburg received Hitler as part of his meetings with the heads of the political parties, the Reich President was handed a petition carrying twenty signatures from businessmen demanding the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor.86 It did not mark proof, as was once thought, of extensive big business support for Hitler, and its machinations to get him into power. The idea was, in fact, that of Wilhelm Keppler, emerging as Hitler’s link with a group of pro-Nazi businessmen, and put into operation in conjunction with Himmler, who served as the liaison to the Brown House. Keppler and Schacht began with a list of around three dozen possible signatories. But they found it an uphill task. Eight of the ‘Keppler Circle’, headed by Schacht and the Cologne banker Kurt von Schroeder, signed the petition. The results with industrialists were disappointing. A single prominent industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, signed. But he had for long made no secret of his sympathies for the National Socialists. The acting President of Reichslandbund the (Reich Agrarian League), the Nazi-infiltrated lobby of big landowners, was another signatory. The rest were middle-ranking businessmen and landholders. It was misleadingly claimed that leading industrialists Paul Reusch, Fritz Springorum and Albert Vögler sympathized, but had withheld their names from the actual petition. Big business on the whole still placed its hopes in Papen, though the petition was an indication that the business community did not speak with a single voice. The agricultural lobby, in particular, was the one to watch.”
References available if wanted.
I have been accused of being obsessed with condemning the Left. But if there is one thing to be noticed in Mfritz’s comments, it is perhaps the opposite desire, and a certain whiff of a Marxian worldview.
LeftisruiningCanada says
*not* simply a money hungry mammon worshiper.
StellaSaidSo says
LIRC, what drives the globalist cabal is money and power. I am impressed with your reading of Kershaw, but, clearly, you have not researched globalism to the same extent. MFritz is no Marxist. (Zuckerberg, on the other hand…)
BTW, did you know that Prescott Bush funded the Nazis? (And yes, the Bush family are major players in the globalist plot.)
Wellington says
Stella: The contention that Prescott Bush funded the Nazis was debunked long, long ago by any sensible and informed person. The father of Bush 41, a Senator from Connecticut, had a business contact with one Nazi Party member in the 1930’s, as did scores of American businessmen during the 1930’s, and this has been used to assert the absurd claim that Prescott Bush “funded the Nazis.”
Look, i have lost confidence in the Bush family even though I voted twice for Bush 41 and Bush 43 for President, but the “Prescott Bush funding the Nazis” line is pathetic and completely out of any contact with reality. Indeed, asserting such only diminishes the anti-jihad cause because in opposing Islam, as I know you do as I, being as accurate as possible is imperative. Please reconsider.
Wellington says
Stella: BTW, the Nazi Prescott Bush had dealings with, one Fritz Thyssen, while initially a Nazi, eventually criticized the Nazi Party so much that Hitler had him put in a concentration camp. Yeah, this is all part of the bogus basis that the Bush family “funded the Nazis.”
StellaSaidSo says
You are misinformed, Wellington. There is no doubt that Prescott Bush worked for and profited from businesses which facilitated Hitler’s rise to power. Brown Brothers Harriman, for example, acted for German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler during the 1930s. Bush was also a director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation which represented Thyssen’s interests and continued to do so after the US entered the war. And he was on the board of at least one of the front companies which allowed Thyssen to move assets around the world. There are several sets of archives which document the Bush interests in German industry during the 30s and 40s.
I could go on, but I think it should be clear that you have no grounds for suggesting that I am ‘completely out of contact with reality’ or that I am uninformed on this matter. Your arguments would be more credible without the ad hominems. And, in any case, my mention of Prescott Bush was incidental to the main point of my post in response to LIRC.
LeftisruiningCanada says
I’d heard of that Bush/Nazi connection before yes, but if they did or did not have some business dealings is a little to one side of the main point i was getting at.
The claim that the NSDAP was “mostly funded” by big business does not line up with what i’ve now read of the years leading up to Hitler’s Chancellorship and the following several years. Kershaw is adamant on this point, coming back to it time and again, since it seems to be quite a popular notion.
“Some” business interests did lend support, of varying enthusiasm, to the Nazi party. Man didn’t. The same can be said for most of the German society – some churchmen supported, others didn’t. Some communists switched to the Nazis, some didn’t. Because Fascism leads to such a pick and mix of economic, social and foreign policy, it had appeal right across the spectrum.
And i must thank you for the recommendation of Kershaw’s work. It really is very comprehensive.
Money/Power surely motivates them, as it does most of us humans. But to stop there and say that is all these people desire is something i cannot do. There is too much ideology pressing in too distinct a direction. They want to create something..something lasting and very different to what we have had. And to do that, as we see everyday, a lot will need to be destroyed.
In short, to say that those in power only want to create the “NWO” (or whatever we call it) for the power and money it will give them, would be the same, to me, as saying that parents only want to have children in order to be able to tell them what to do.
Telling kids what to do is a very small part of creating a new person….what we really want is see them grow and live and flourish in a way we think is worthwhile.
I believe that the power brokers, the real ones, want something similar, just in a very dark and evil way.
And no, i don’t think MFritz is a Marxist. That wasn’t the claim. I do however often get the impression that certain popular elements of that worldview are present in his posts, especially when it comes to ‘big business’ and ‘capitalism’.
That;s fine of course, we can each believe what we think best. It’s just an observation.
StellaSaidSo says
@ LIRC
Indeed, LIRC, the Bush/Nazi connection was incidental to me, too – I only mentioned it because the Bush family has links with both Nazism and NWO globalism. Glad you discovered Kershaw, btw. You might also enjoy his FATEFUL CHOICES – TEN DECISIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD 1940-1941.
I can tell from your post that you have not seriously investigated the globalist plan for humanity, and I encourage you to do so. It isn’t a secret. There is plenty of information available – much more than there was when I started looking into it. No, they are not like parents who want the best for their children. They do not give a toss about us ‘peasants’. We are to be culled, herded into urban reservations, RFID chipped, brainwashed, and enslaved. They will have control of all natural resources, all means of production, and the right to determine our rights and freedoms – which will be very few. The EU is the prototype regional unit of ‘global governance’. Imagine the US and Canada as another region. They already did, and it’s on its way. The whole project has been more than a century in the making, and it is a lot further advanced than most people realise.
Wellington says
Prescott Bush was, per your statement, Stella, a “director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation.” Yeah, right. Prescott Bush owned 1 of 4,000 shares in said corporation. A director my butt.
As for your contention that there are “several sets of archives” which document Prescott’s Bush’s interests in German industry during the Hitler years, well then, name them. I say you can’t.
Stop with the loony stuff. It only discredits the anti-jihad cause.
Wellington says
A correction: Prescott Bush, though only owning one or two shares out of some 4,000, was indeed a director of Union Banking, so here I was wrong, but no serious historian that I know of thinks Prescott Bush funded Nazi Germany or was a Nazi sympathizer or (most unbelievable of all) harbored a secret plan to overthrow FDR and establish a Nazi government in America. Bush served in the American Armed Forces in WWI and led an honorable life. His contacts with one Nazi businessman, Thyssen, who later was expelled from the Nazi Party and was himself put in a concentration camp by the Nazis, hardly constitutes Bush helping fund Nazi Germany. One country after another had diplomatic relations with Hitler’s Germany before WWII, did extensive business with Germany when Hitler was in charge and so on. To read conspiracy into virtually any of this is not the stuff of true history but the stuff of, well, conspiracy theories, which seldom are valid.
StellaSaidSo says
@ Wellington
I did not ‘read conspiracy’ into anything. I made a one-line aside, to the effect that Prescott Bush materially assisted the Nazis, which is a documented fact. You have admitted you were wrong about some of your own claims, yet you have been unable to refute mine. BTW, the archives I referred to are in the National Archives and the Library of Congress.
It would appear that ‘loony stuff’ is anything that you either know nothing about or don’t agree with.
Wellington says
Stella: I admitted I was wrong about one fact, and a fact which I would argue is a mere technicality. I would challenge you again to name a single serious historian who thinks the whole “Prescott Bush helped fund Nazi Germany” has any merit. As for what is in the National Archives and Library of Congress, I refute that they prove at all that Prescott Bush was a Nazi sympathizer and aided Nazi Germany in any substantial way whatsoever.
Might as well argue (as many uninformed do) that the Vatican was pro-Nazi because it reached a Concordat with Hitler shortly after he came to power. The Vatican had to since there were thousands of priests and nuns in Germany and millions of dollars worth of Church property there and Hitler had come to power legitimately in 1933 (though of course he then iniquitously destroyed freedom in Germany) .
All kinds of polities and people did business with Nazi Germany. Are they all guilty of abetting Hitler’s regime? And again, I ask you to produce a single major historian who thinks Prescott Bush was some huge funder and sympathizer of Nazi Germany. I know of none. There is history and there is conspiracy land. The two on a rare occasion meet. But not here I would argue.
I don’t mean to pick a fight with you but the Prescott Bush “stuff” has no credible authority believing in it. It belongs in the same category with the JFK assassination conspiracy nonsense (for RFK and MLK too). Please be careful—-for the overall cause of as intelligently and informedly opposing what Islam intends for us all.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“No, they are not like parents who want the best for their children. They do not give a toss about us ‘peasants”
Yes, i agree, i hope that i didn’t come across as saying otherwise.
The parent analogy was just to say that they are seeking to create something because they value the thing itself, rather than simply money/power. As i said, although the principle applies, the thing they would make will be darker than perhaps anything we can imagine.
All of the things you mention to be in the works i am aware of, and have not been unaware of since the late 90’s. I know you believe in these things very strongly, as did i at one time. I still believe that some of it may well be on the cards. However, that entire set of ideas (“Conspiracy”, so called) now resides in it’s own compartment of my brain, to be referenced but no longer the lens through which the world is mediated to me.
Should reality confirm any of those ideas, they are right there, waiting to be called on.
StellaSaidSo says
Did you know that UN Agenda 21 is being implemented in Canada, as we speak, LIRC? And in dozens of other countries throughout the West? Have you heard of ICLEI? It’s not a question of ‘believing in’ ‘a set of ideas’, on the basis of no evidence; it’s a question of seeing what is happening right in front of your own eyes, and examining the documentation on which it is based. The reality is far ‘darker’ than you imagine.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Sure, the Liberals made it quite clear how in love they were with the UN right from the start of their current government
B.C, where i live, is the California (Or Oregon, or Washington, depending on issue) of Canada, which is saying a lot, since Canada at it’s most Conservative and right wing is further down the road to serfdom than even that most Left of Left Coast States.
And do remember, i’m a Christian who fully believes in the existence of utterly malevolent hyper intelligent spiritual beings intent on the most vicious forms of corruption, destruction and tyranny. This is based on both textual and experiential evidence. It’s ok if you doubt that or want to dismiss is as fantasy/delusion/insert materialist reason here, but it is true nonetheless.
I know that there is no bottom to the well of hate from which these creatures draw. I know from the work of the Holy Spirit and sustained personal examination that my own inner evil would be sufficient for all manner of hideousness. I do not agree that the chief study of Man is Man himself, since that is God, but having a more correct anthropology does make it less likely that one will be surprised by anything that another man might do.
1984, Brave New World, Nazi medical experiments, Pol Pot, DPRK torture chambers, Sauron and his legions of disfigured monsters, or anything dreamed up in the most perverted novels and movies ever made, nothing will compare to the depravity or the breaking of the human body and mind that might be fomented in the not too distant future. We are made in the image of God, and nothing is the object of so much searing filthy burning rage as Him.
Darker than i imagine? It’s way darker than any of us imagine. It goes all the way down.
PABLO says
Racism and global warming only affects Muslims. This is what the Left want you to believe.
Garfield says
+1
Marina says
The question should arise as to why any other communities don’t get radicalized . There are HIndu and Buddhist communities too but they integrate very well. It is always the Muslims who are the victims. This racism thing is only a smokescreen. Anybody with brain cells can understand this.
Jack Diamond says
+1
Muslim victimization in a nutshell (from an Arab saying): “He hit me, then HE cried. Then he ran to the police to report me.”
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes. “playground politics”.
Chand says
Marina says:” There are HIndu and Buddhist communities too but they integrate very well.”
Ya, naturally. Hindu and Buddhist religions teach non-violence and that all is maya, illusion and so the Divine prefers renunciation and acceptance of fate.
Islam on the other hand teaches peace and acceptance up to a point. Thereafter, if the situation worsens, the injunction is Jihad, the highest form is worship.
So while most Somalis and other African immigrants will tolerate and resign themselves to racism there, a small minority might turn to Jihad, sanctioned in the Koran, during times of strife and trouble.
Peterson says
In Hinduism and Buddhism there is no concept of Devil. And they believe that god is finally one and all religions are different pathways to the same goal. But when I studied about witch craft a working model came into my mind. God had cast away Satan and many angels from heaven. All the religions of the world are worshipping Satan and these angels as god. There is no fighting among them. Then Christianity came offering salvation. Then Satan planned a religion called Islam a counterfeit for Christianity. It claims as continuation of Christianity but in reality its aim is the destruction of it.
LeftisruiningCanada says
I know what you’re getting at, and i think there is truth there.
But for the sake of accuracy, there has been quite a bit of fighting between other religions. Islam of course has been the worst of them i think. Look what they did to the Hindus.
It’s the beast feeding on itself, rather than a house divided against itself, imho.
Fred Alan Medforth says
Wuppertal / Germany: “You’re a Nazi!” or When a Pali knife-attacks a nigger
http://searchlight-germany.blogspot.de/2018/03/wuppertal-germany-youre-nazi-or-when.html
WPM says
To Fred Alan Medforth
Thanks for the link it is funny how Islamics seem to fight all people on all sides white, black, straight ,gay ,Christian , Jew ,Hindu ,atheism ,and they get a past from the left wing progressives. Hell they make the American old KKK look like boy scouts! Wave a Koran around and you get a free pass on almost any deviate bad behavior the best get out of jail card ,”for the best of people!”
Peter says
Maybe her sister bought into the false narrative that Islam is a race and therefore that its divine mandate to wage permanent warfare against non-Muslims (Jihad) is a form racism.
StellaSaidSo says
It doesn’t take much to ‘radicalise’ the young and the stupid.
Niemoller says
Aesop knew all about the criminal Islamosupremacist wolf mindset:
The Wolf and the Lamb
Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.” Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.” “No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.” Again said the Wolf, “You drink of my well.” “No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.” Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won’t remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations.” The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.
Niemoller says
Who were the quisling politicians who sold this Islamofascist a citizenship?
They should end up like Quisling.
They are the epitome of the traitors Cicero warned about:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Niemoller says
Rewrite:
Who were the quisling politicians who sold these Islamofascists citizenship?
These quisling politicians should end up like Quisling.
Sentinel says
So what’s the excuse of all the Jihadists out there who have never visited the West ?
Are Middle Eastern countries Islamophobic.
Back to the drawing board.
Peterson says
Do you know that for everything America is responsible. A Sunni bombs Shia in Pakistan. You know what will be the response of a Pakistani? It is America creating divide in the religion. A flood happens in Pakistan. It is America artificially creating floods in Pakistan. The story is not different in other Muslim countries.
LeftisruiningCanada says
That’s a common reflex, yes.
And remember, “America is the tool of the Jews”.
It’s always about the Jews.
kouldb says
So their conversion to violent, murderous Jihad nothing to do with “radicalised by online material and…a sinister network of extremists in Oslo who set out to radicalise young people”, nor the fact that Islam itself demands it’s followers kill all infidels then? Another ‘victim’ who’s in fact the perpetrator. But he’s not as big of an imbecile as the morons who buy his rhetoric.
Peterson says
Many years back in my childhood there was a story about a Muslim man as how he ended up being a butcher or meat seller. He did many jobs and in every job he found something wrong. He was even assistant to a magician. Then he felt it is cheating the audience with tricks. Finally he became a butcher. I think he did not find anything wrong with that job. It is like ducklings go to water from the first day.
StellaSaidSo says
Great story, Peterson, thanks for sharing! I have heard that Muslims who work in abbatoirs revel in the torture and slaughter of animals. No surprises.
henrik jensen says
journalist are not doctors ,loyers, economists, ph.d. and engeneers, there iq are a little below, enough to make mistaken claims next day new newspaper.