Meanwhile, Muslim migrants continue to stream into Germany, with only perfunctory efforts (at best) made to determine their sentiments regarding jihad. The suicidal madness seems to have no end.
“German spy chief warns of Islamic State’s strength,” DW, July 13, 2021:
The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has warned that the Islamic State is just as strong as it ever was — even without its caliphate. Terrorism experts agree that it has morphed into a powerful network.
The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, has given a rare interview specifically to warn that, despite appearances, terrorism remains a real threat to world order, even 20 years after 9/11.
Speaking to the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Monday, Bruno Kahl said that, though Europe and the US had not seen any more major terrorist attacks like those of two decades ago, “Islamist terrorism has developed further, and cost very many human lives. The number of terrorist actors and the danger they pose has increased.”
There have of course been major successes in the fight against the Islamic State in the past few years — especially the 2019 killing of the group’s self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the destruction of the “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq as a quasi state entity. But since then, said Kahl, IS has turned into a decentralized network, much like al Qaeda, whose suborganizations “are even spreading out.”
This isn’t exactly news, according to Mirna El Masri, a radicalization and terrorism researcher at the Hamburg-based German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). “There had been indications in 2019 after the loss of its territories that IS had strengthened considerably,” she told DW. “On the other hand, new circumstances have exacerbated the situation in the past year, which might explain why Kahl has decided to talk about this now.”
For one thing, the spread of the coronavirus in the Middle East region has weakened the Iraqi government and increased the desperation of many people, which has turned refugee camps in northern Syria into particularly good IS recruitment centers. The longer the pandemic continues, El Masri said, the more it will help IS.
The Islamic State has also learned to adapt its strategies, according to El Masri. Commanders have been subdivided into specific operational sectors in the region, taking over decision-making responsibilities. The latest reports also suggest that IS fighters have withdrawn completely from urban areas, but are able to move freely in the open country simply by avoiding state forces, especially near the city around the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor.
IS has also developed new business models, adopting organized crime tactics such as demanding illegal taxes along oil and trade routes and using hotels, real estate and even car dealerships to launder money between Iraq, Syria, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
“That has made it more difficult to see and monitor for German and international intelligence agencies,” said Eric Stollenwerk, terrorism and Sahel region researcher for GIGA, who agrees that the group is still very powerful in both Syria and Iraq. “Beyond that, it has strong connections with other regions in the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa and especially the Sahel region,” he added.
Kahl told DZ that there is only one way to stop the development of terrorist organizations such as IS: “The imposition of the monopoly of state power, the erection of state structures, the guarantee of security.” That, he argues, is where European and Western powers can help countries such as Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria. “We have to support the states in regaining control or at least to maintain it where it can be maintained,” he said….
mortimer says
The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency is a brave man to speak out on this politically charged topic. Angela Merkel whose name is not mentioned is the DELUDED IDIOT who is to blame.
Anyone with any common sense realizes that ISLAM IS NOT ‘BENIGN’ and that jihadists want to take over the world for Islam.
Top British philosopher Anthony Flew wrote: “I would never regard Islam with anything but HORROR and FEAR because it is fundamentally committed to CONQUERING THE WORLD for Islam… it is, I think, best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism.”
tim gallagher says
That’s a terrific quote from Anthony Flew, mortimer, which I am writing down for future reference.. Sums Islam up perfectly. As for Germany, it’s a good thing for this man to tell the truth, but, with the evidence of the connection between letting the Muslim enemy into a country and the inevitable terrorism that comes with having Muslims in your country being so clear, wouldn’t you think that the German authorities might actually wake up and do what Hungary has done and slam the door shut on letting Muslims in? On what Flew says, Islam is a load of barbaric, outdated crap and people would have to have rocks in their heads to want to live under the primitive rules of life that islam imposes.
Raja says
Tim Gallagher,
It is not that Islam only tries to impose primitive rules on kafirs, it wants to make us robots and deprive us mankind of discerning the good from the ugly. At stake is our decision making abilities. It is the larger plans of Satan to destroy mankind from within through islam and Left ideologies.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Raja. Yes, I agree with what you say. Muslims, not allowed to dissent from the rules of Islam, not allowed to do any critical thinking, are robot like. And that is what they want for all of us. I keep thinking that islam is this disgusting, primitive and extremely outdated ideology. All of its nonsense, child brides, honour killings, stoning people to death, raping non-believers, killing non-believers when the opportunity arises, female genital mutilation, etc, all of it is absolute primitive garbage that should not still exist in 2021. None of it should have ever existed, but to have such garbage still fouling up the modern world is loathsome. I am totally opposed to islam because all the crap it contains is barbaric filth that should have disappeared ages ago. It seems satanically evil to me. As I said in my first comment, a person would have to have rocks in their head to want to live the backward life that Muslims live. Thanks for the comment, gravenimage.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
jule says
Why do leaders do this without the slightest research into what Islam is all about? Back when I was curious and after having someone from the Mosque talk at out Ethics club, I read the Qur’an they gave me at their big dinner and I was too shocked. So I looked at more history, life of Mohammed, the cave, his first wife’s intervention with the Christian taught cousin, the supposed letters to countries from the warlords gangs and I knew right away….do not let it take root or let your country die.
tim gallagher says
Yes, jule, it is not that hard to do a bit of research on Islam. I did the same as you did, because I wanted to find out why Muslims were causing so much trouble in Australia, where I live, and in countries all over the world. Maybe these leaders are just too damned lazy to bother to go and learn about the nature of Islam. Once you know how barbaric islam is, you definitely don’t want it to be allowed into any non-Muslim country.
Walter Sieruk says
The head of the German intelligence agency had, rightly, declared “Islamist terrorism has devolved… the danger they pose has increased terrorism.”
The one and only thing wrong with his statement is the so called “word’ he used which Is “Islamist” is a bogus word.
For the words “Islamist” and “Islamism” is a fake words that used that was made up after September 11, 2001 in order offend or upset non-violent Muslims. The real, actual, word is just “Islam.” Likewise, the word “Islamist” is also a bogus word that was made up after 9/11 in order not to offend or upset peaceful Muslims. To keep with reality, terms should better be used as “Islamic terrorist” or “Muslim terrorist” . Let’s call people and thing as the really are.
Likewise, the terms “Radical Muslim” and “Islamic extremist” is actually a misuse of terms. “Moderate Muslim” are actually Western term and not that well known in the Islamic Middle East. This is because what In the Islamic mindset in the Muslim Middle East as well as in Indonesia and other Muslim controlled countries what the non-Muslims of the Western nations view as “radical and “extremist” the Muslims of those places in the world see as “Normal” and even Devout and committed to the Cause of Islam.”
Furthermore, those “Moderate Muslims” are those of the Islamic worldview and non-devout and non –committed Muslims. The violent jihadists even see them as “hypocrites.” Therefore, this explains the jihadist chant of those jihad-minded Muslims in different Islamic terror organizations. When they chant out loud “Death to infidels and hypocrites.” Meaning Death to people who and not Muslims and people who are non- jihadist Muslims.
Concerning the last part of this above essay, the violent spirit of that vicious jihadist chant “Death to infidels and hypocrites.” The later word of the chant “hypocrites” in the jihad –minded Muslim worldview is further explain in the book titled JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH by Jamie Glazov , for on page 42 the reader is informed that “Islam mandates that devout and real Muslims must punish , and in some circumstances kill, those Muslims whom they regard as neither legitimate nor properly devout.”
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gravenimage says
Germany: ‘Islamist terrorism has developed…The number of terrorist actors and the danger they pose has increased’
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Bruno Kahl is right–but this will only get worse the more Muslims continue to flood in there.
jule says
Exactly right. So what are they going to do about it? Especially Germany should have known better what a Supremacist is and how they fought with Hitler. Supremacy cannot stop itself. It cannot co-exist with others.
JimJFox says
“ how they fought with Hitler”
Jule, surely you did not intend this to read as it does?
The German nation elected him and most were fervent supporters. Supremacy has great attraction for the average person, particularly when it is religion-based.
Giacomo Latta says
“Islamist terrorism has developed further, and cost very many human lives. The number of terrorist actors and the danger they pose has increased.”
Hmm. I guess they must read the papers too but not know enough about psychiatry to blame it all on poor mental health.
99pct says
Why has it taken years for these political idiots to realize the violence and violent culture of Islam?