Al Hol camp in Syria is notoriously violent. Last month, Jihad Watch reported about aid workers being at risk in Al-Hol camp, following the murder of a medic. Now, at that same camp, there’s another outbreak of violence.
As a rule, every non-Muslim individual or group faces a threat of attack when they are in the presence of jihadists. Al-Hol camp is controlled by a Kurdish administration; last year, the Syrian Observatory “recorded 91 murders by IS in Al-Hol. Two of the victims were aid workers.”
A couple years ago, women at the al-Hol camp unleashed a reign of terror on innocent people by enforcing the Islamic State’s laws upon the population, including constant threats of decapitation, as well as actions such as “slaughtering babies and dousing guards in petrol.”
“Some 50,000 Syrians and Iraqis are located in al-Hol. Nearly 20,000 of them are children.” Many of the Islamic State wives and their children have tried to return to the Western countries where they once lived, and which they betrayed in their jihad. The ISIS brides continue in the camp to “live strictly according to IS ideology,” causing the camp to be regarded by Kurdish representatives who oversee it as a “ticking time bomb” for Europe. Many of these people have already returned to the EU as “refugees,” thanks to the recklessness of European leaders.
“IS women in Syria camp clash with police, 1 child killed,” Associated Press, February 7, 2022:
Women held in a camp housing families of Islamic State group militants in northeast Syria tried to kidnap their Kurdish guards Monday, an opposition war monitor said. The attempt led to a shooting that left one child dead and several other people wounded.
A Kurdish official confirmed there was an attempt to kidnap female guards but had no immediate word on casualties . The sprawling al-Hol camp is where tens of thousands of women and children — mostly wives, widows and children of IS members — are held.
The attack in the camp came days after IS’s top leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, was killed in a U.S. raid on his safehouse in northwest Syria. The camp has witnessed dozens of crimes over the past year.
The incident also comes two weeks after IS fighters attacked a prison in Syria’s northeastern city of Hassakeh, where some 3,000 militants and juveniles are held.
The attack on the prison led to 10 days of fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and IS militants that left nearly 500 people dead. U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters brought the situation under control eventually.
President Joe Biden said al-Qurayshi had been responsible for the Syria prison assault.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said women in the al-Hol camp tried to kidnap guards leading to a shooting in which a 10-year-old child was killed and six women and children were wounded.
The Observatory said the shooting caused a fire and the women were not able to kidnap the guards.
Shixmus Ehmed, head of the Kurdish-led administration’s department for refugees and displaced, confirmed to The Associated Press that some camp residents tried to kidnap their female guards. He had no information on casualties.
Another Kurdish official who works in the camp said he was not aware of a kidnapping attempt but that there were some riots in a small section holding mostly foreign women and children. Speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, he said seven women and children were hurt during Monday’s riots….
mortimer says
The solution to all these fanatics in one place is to allow women who defect from fanaticism and choose secularism, to move to a second camp where no Sharia will be allowed. If they start acting up, the Sharia fanatics will be transferred back to camp no.1 with the Sharia fanatics from ISIS.
Leave the women there to grow old. The way out is to become secular … period.
“The radical Islamism that has been loosed in Syria and Iraq (the Islam of ISIS) is not a deviation or a perversion of an alleged true Islam, whose orientation is purely spiritual and religious. In fact, it is the most traditional form of Islam.” – Fr. Henri Boulad SJ.
Our Western politicians will create problems until they see the truth of Father Boulad’s words.
Keith O says
Not a bad idea Mortimer, One camp in a nice location with heaps of housing, food, medical aid etc. and the other with just the basics.
The ones who want to stay in the rat hole with the rest of their ISIS nut job mates are too far gone to be returned to normal society.
They stay put till they go out in a pine box. The only “deradicalization program” that will work with these mad dogs will be via a lump of lead delivered at high velocity between the eyes.
mortimer says
Has anyone tried to de-program these women through literature, lectures and videos that debunk Islamism? NO? Then, why not? Debunking Islam is the only way to take the jihad out of Islam, because jihad is embedded pretty deeply and dead-center in Islam.
If you produce a fake Islam with no jihad in it, there is a huge, gaping HOLE in the middle of the fabricated, artificialy ‘moderate’ Islam.
Taking any element out of original Islam is called ‘kufr’ (disbelief) and also ‘bida’ (innovation), both of which are severely punished in an Islamic state.
OLD GUY says
Why even bother with refugee camps for these islamic followers, let them live in the poor conditions they create. I’d like to see the statistics on how many of these islamic refugees convert from or denounce Islam in the camps. Prime example of helping a refugee from one of these camps is Ilan Omar, who now lives a good life in America and does everything she can to harm the vary country that saved her. Gratitude and Diversity are two things that muslim/islamic followers such as her lack. Muslim/Islamic followers are taught that the non-muslims are supposed to support them as they are superior to everyone else.
Helping muslims and islamic followers is not improving relations it is bowing down to their belief.