What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. Many of the children of Islamic State jihadis have themselves been trained to hate and kill, and to see the world as a battleground between Muslims and unbelievers. What are the chances of their becoming loyal, productive Belgian citizens?
“Belgium takes back six children of Isis fighters from Syrian camps,” Reuters, June 14, 2019:
Six Belgian children of Islamic State members were returned to Belgium on Friday from camps in Syria where US-backed militia are holding thousands of militants and their family members.
The children, ranging in age from six to 18, were left parentless in Syria, making their repatriation less complicated than that of dozens of other Belgian children of Isis members held in Syria’s northern Kurdish region.
“The 6 children from #Syria have just arrived in our country,” Belgium’s foreign minister Didier Reynders tweeted late on Friday. “The children are now being monitored and supervised by the competent local state attorneys & youth support services.”
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) controls the quarter of Syria east of the Euphrates river after repelling Islamic State in a series of advances from 2015 that culminated in March with the group’s defeat at its last territorial enclave in Baghouz, near the Iraqi border.
However, it says it is unable to indefinitely hold the thousands of Isis fighters and members and their families who surrendered during its offensive.
“This must be extended to men and women in our camps and prison, not only children,” Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the SDF, said on Twitter regarding Belgium’s move.
Many of those in custody or held at overcrowded displacement camps in northeast Syria are foreigners, and many remain unrepentant supporters of violent jihad….
Shirley Ann says
Muslim Children? The Youngest is 6Yrs of Age & the Eldest is 18Yrs, Do you know how Much Mayhem & Death can be caused by an 18 Yr. old Man(Child)? We only have the word of the SDF on this, of course. The Group of “Children” could be a whole Mobilized Squad of Terrorists, for All Belgium Knows! Bad Idea for the Authorities to set them loose on its Own People!
Martin says
I live in (and am writing this comment from) Brussels, Belgium. This city is 25% Muslim, it has produced over 300 ISIS recruits who went to Syria and Iraq to rape and murder (as much as the entire USA), and it has thousands, if not tens of thousands, of ISIS supporters living here.
The Belgian government has done next to nothing about all the problems caused by Muslim immigrants and their offspring: they have allowed “Belgian” ISIS fighters to return to their welfare checks, they have told us after the local Muslim terrorist attacks (32 murdered) that, “we (non-Muslims) must try harder to win their (Muslim) hearts back.” So it is no great surprise that Belgium has taken back these jihadi “kids;” if the Belgian government is willing to take back adult ISIS killers, and to have apartments and monthly welfare checks waiting for them when they get back, why wouldn’t the government take back a six-year-old, an eight-year-old, and other “kids” up to the age of eighteen?
Brussels is a Third World, immigration caused, dump while Luxembourg City (next-door) is calm and peaceful. The difference is that thirty to fifty years ago the Belgian powers that be decided on importing cheap Moroccan labor while Luxembourg’s decision makers decided on cheap Portuguese labor: the Portuguese are Christian/European and their kids don’t join ISIS, in fact their kids grow up to be productive citizens. While over in Belgium the Third World Muslims, who make up 6% of the country’s total population, use 60% of the country’s welfare and make up 60% of the country’s prison population, and commit 100% of the terrorism.
But the mantra repeated by Belgium’s leaders and the EU never changes: “Diversity is our strength.” To say otherwise, or to point out inconvenient facts to the contrary, makes you a racist and therefore absolutely unworthy of being listened to. That’s how it works here in Brussels, the headquarters of the EU, where its well protected and well paid leaders welcome the Third World into Europe (to live next-door to you on your dime) with open arms.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Martin, thank you for your heartfelt words. I used to travel through Brussels quite a lot en route between London and Amsterdam, often with layovers. To have seen your city go to rack and ruin like that, I expect that you’re seething inside and speak for many. Paris, too, was once a beautiful city. I’d like to pick up on three things from your post: “we (non-Muslims) must try harder to win their (Muslim) hearts back”, “To say otherwise …makes you a racist,” and “makes you a racist and therefore absolutely unworthy of being listened to.”
“we (non-Muslims) must try harder to win their (Muslim) hearts back.” This frustrates the Hell out of me, too. Even leaving aside the Islamic imperative that Muslims *never* give their hearts to infidels, and so the non-issues of “losing their hearts” and of “winning their hearts back,” what is this collective social malaise of *we* must necessarily and always be responsible for all crimes that Muslims commit and all social destruction that Muslims bring about? It started with “*we* are not doing enough to help Muslims to integrate.” How many kindly, good-natured people took this guilt-trip to heart and opened their homes to poor, traumatised Muslim immigrants, only to end up with their throats slit, as per Qur’anic command? Still, it is us who are not doing enough. How many young infidel women “prove” their non-racism and their “multicultural” credential by entering into relationships with, and even marrying, Muslim men? The good ones end in tears; the bad ones end in death (or deaths, if there’s a child involved). Still, it is *us* who are not doing enough. They run off to ISIS, swearing to destroy our countries, where they have babies that they’ve hardwired to kill infidels, and now we’ve got to take them all back because, still, we are not doing enough. Has anyone ever asked how much *Muslims* are doing to integrate? Of course not. They’re not the guilty ones. *We* are. Still, *we* have to do more. *We* have to let our daughters be raped without complaint. Still, *we* have to do more. *We* have to change our laws so they may engage in polygamy. Still, *we* have to do more. *We* have to stop eating pork. Still, *we* have to do more. *We* have to wrap our womenfolk in shrouds. Still, *we* have to do more. *We* have to put up with being woken by loudspeakers at ungodly hours. Still, *we* have to do more… and more,,, and more…
“To say otherwise …makes you a racist.” Yes, it’s a disgusting cheap shot at the expense of everyone who has ever been the victim of racism. Now the word ‘racism’ has lost its meaning, are we going to have to qualify what we’re talking about when we talk about Apartheid in South Africa or Segregation in the US? Given Islamic supremacism, is the racism that blacks experienced at the hands of whites now a lesser racism than the “racism” that Muslims supposedly experience (on a torrential scale, if the victimhood industry is to be believed)? I have been called a racist, but only be people who didn’t know that I’m black. People who know that and would otherwise be inclined to throw the racist slur tend to stop themselves before making that mistake. But it is precisely that selective application of the racist slur that makes such people themselves racist. I wish that white people who are so abused would simply say, “Call me whatever you like, I KNOW WHAT I AM.” How can you live under such paralysis? They’re wrong, so they can f*ck off. It’s as simple as that.
“makes you a racist and therefore absolutely unworthy of being listened to.” This is REALLY serious. It is excommunication. It is rendering someone an unperson. “Syme was not only dead, he was abolished, an unperson. Any identifiable reference to him would have been mortally dangerous.,” George Orwell, 1984. This is what happened in the USSR. This is what happens in China. This is what’s happening to Tommy Robinson. This is why writing about Tommy Robinson is a revolutionary act.
We are teetering on an event horizon, and everything you say about Brussels is true.
Martin says
Anjuli, I appreciate that you read my comment and took the time to so eloquently respond. I know that you and I are in total agreement and I, too, have been closely following the British government’s criminal treatment of Tommy Robinson for years; Tommy Robinson is Briton’s bravest, yet most vilified, man. It’s because of Tommy’s criminal mistreatment, the decades long inaction to known Muslim rape gangs, and the UK’s bending over a barrel for Islam, that I now have zero respect for the British government. I’m hoping TR gets $20 million for the movie rights to his extraordinary life, retires to a quiet beach in Australia, and lives to a ripe old age. TR did all he could and put it all on the line to fight Islam in the UK and has been repaid with scorn.
Luckily for me Brussels is not my home town. I’m an American and I moved to Brussels from Alaska eight years ago after marrying a Portuguese woman who works for the EU. We have six years to go before my wife is able to retire. If I can make it six more years in Brussels without a Moroccan knifing me in the liver I’ll be whistling Dixie when we drive off to our retirement in Portugal NEVER to return.
I’m not joking about the knife in the liver. I’ve had several violent confrontations with the Muslim “youth” (I’m 59-years-old) and me being knifed by a local Muslim is my wife’s greatest fear. She says that I shouldn’t get involved, that no one would ever help me in the same situation – but I can’t not help. I’ve been “lucky,” so far the violence has only been with fists, and thanks to being recorded by CCTV cameras the police know that I had come to the aid of others: a young woman (a cashier in a small grocery store) who was being spit on and an old man who was being attacked in the street. I’ve had other interactions with Brussels’ culture-enriching Moroccan “youth” (I’d call them punks), but you get my drift.
Again, I appreciate your reply. It’s nice to know that there are others “out there” who actually read some of what I write.
J D S says
If one wants to see what a mid eastern Muslim city looks like without actually going there just visit some of the European Muslim enclaves…Muslims are turning a European cities and governments into excrement..and Thebes pole are letting it happen…STRANGE that countries are being taken over without the proverbial “shot”being fired…..and America Canada and Australia aren’t far behind..NOw how stupid is thstIf one is American then stand up and do what’s right.
Giacomo Latta says
The average 8-year-old ISIS soldier could give lessons on rifle operation and maintenance to new recruits of the US Army.
mortimer says
Muslims children throughout the Western world are being raised to be jihadists. Is NO ONE CONCERNED? They are being indoctrinated from birth to hate the kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’.
Jhn1 says
Is there anybody in the world with a successful program to make decent law abiding citizens of “former” child soldiers? Not just change who they kill for, but change to become nonarmed workers with normal jobs in that polity.
mortimer says
Time, love, some therapy, the Golden Rule, getting them away from the source of the indoctrination. The head of the Hitler Youth repented of his crimes and led many youth to join him in becoming a decent person again.
LR says
The thing is these kids ARE human. Humans as we know though, can do monstrous, dark evil things.
I would think it quite easy to re-indoctrinate kids 6 – 10 yrs. old if they have a relatively normal brain. Kids respond to love and goodness. But they also like loving adults that possess a good dose of strength – emotional/psychological strength that is. Kids don’t respect weakness. If Europeans don’t stop being so weak kneed within their own tradition, and values, then they will not be successful in ‘re-indoctrinating’, re-integrating these youth.
The obvious problem is…They are not even demanding the immigrant Muslims (who didn’t go join ISIS) to integrate. Now, they expect to re-integrate ISIS kids. Quite contradictory.
If the Europeans had their heads screwed on straight, and immediately deported anyone who didn’t integrate then these kids would have something they could look up to.
As it is now, it seems weakness will only reinforce what they have already been taught. I sure hope they have some smart counselors, and strong adults around them that won’t put up with any BS.
Paul N Silas says
The Russian designed AK-47!
SO EASY TO USE EVEN A CHILD CAN FIGURE IT OUT!
Not funny, sad really.
Arthur says
how quickly will they become jihadists, bomb makers, etc?
Jayell says
A lot of them are probably already jihadists, bomb-makers, etc.
Walter Sieruk says
The only thing wrong with taking those pathetic children back to Belgium is that they might be so thoroughly damaged in their cognition,in both mind and soul, by the ISIS/jihadists and the imams of ISIS that those poor children can’t tell or understand the basic difference between right and wrong, which is both sad and tragic to the extreme. So the fault is not on the children the those Muslim clerics who brainwashed them and the blame also rest of the jihadists of ISIS for cause those children to possible be dangerous to self and others.
Yes, indeed, those ISIS jihadists and their imams with their Islamic /demonic hate for all Westerners ,which includes Westerner’s of Belgium those child might be stooges for ISIS who want to inflect jihad suicide/homicide attacks in the countries of the West. The use of children as tools for the jihad is child abuse in the most unconscionable and despicable way.
Such Islamic terror murder attacks are, for a large part, the results of those deceitful and manipulative imams who brainwash impressionable into actually wanting to become human bombs. Those sly and insidious imams who mind program and then exploit children for the jihad by methods of mind control as well as their lines and lies .As “We will honor you” and “You will go to paradise “ and “We are doing this for Allah.” That’s some very strand kind of “We.” For the reader to should well understand the same Muslim clerics who brainwash young people and then send them out to commit a murderous jihad attack are never, ever the one who do in themselves. They brainwash and just brainwash and manipulate into carrying out those evil and deadly actions. All the while the mass murders are going on those same Muslim clerics sit home safe. This alone shows what totally despicable cowardly villains those kind of Muslim clerics actually are. The Bible informs its reader that “The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.” Proverbs 12:5. [N.K.J.V.]
Angemon says
Let them face a fair trial in Syria before being sentenced to death.
Jhn1 says
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Eric Jones says
If you can learn to deprogram these kids, then you have clues on how to deprogram all Islamist. I myself was not a wild kid. But how many upstanding adults today were once gang bangers and delinquents when they were young?
CRUSADER says
Belgium is very infiltrated.
tim gallagher says
This is a very risky move by Belgium. I suppose it is “virtue signalling”, where the western, civilised, non-Muslim nations want to show how wonderfully nice and decent they are. Such moves certainly expose the Belgian population to danger. The Belgian people will certainly be extremely angry if any of these children (one is 18 years old!!! not a child at all) do carry out a terrorist act. The photo that comes with this report of the children and one of them learning to use a rifle: it is such disgusting child abuse. That’s Islam for you. Well, OK, plenty of Muslims wouldn’t abuse children in this way. Then again, Islam also marries off young girls. More child abuse from islam. Islam is so evil and barbaric in so many different ways.
gravenimage says
Belgium takes back six children of Islamic State jihadis from Syrian camps
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More suicidal insanity.
Harold Armitage says
I expect most will have beards. The “child” migrants we had in the UK mostly did.
Was it the Jesuits said they could brainwash a child by the age of seven?
Paul J says
“Give me the boy until he is 7 and I will give you the man”. The only brainwashing going on now is the “State” with their early childhood ” education programmes” that are designed to undermine parental authority and indoctrinate them in the whole LGBTQXYZ/progressive/socialist rot. So called Christians performing un Christian acts on/to children are small fry (though no less terrible) compared to the destruction that education departments, islam and the progressive PC atheists are doing to young lives in the West. Rome has much to answer for but it is only ONE city in a world of debauchery.
gravenimage says
Good point, Harold–many of these “child migrants” have proven to be anything but.
Princess says
They’re so cute little cuddly babies. Makes me really want to hug them. Look at him in his cute little uniform playing with his little toy, I mean real gun. Toy, real gun, what’s the difference?
Princess says
Again, I’m all for it, but only if the children will be placed under the custody of non-moslem members of parliament / government who have children of their own that are around the same age as these cuties.
Horseman says
Why?