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| Belgium Proves Vital Jihadist Recruiting Hub |
| 2014-10-05 |
| [VOA News] This week, the trial of dozens of Sharia4Belgium members began in the Belgian city of Antwerp, ground zero of a very successful effort to recruit jihadists. The krazed killer group is a big reason why Belgium has the largest per capita number of fighters of any Western European country in Syria, according to the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation. "Everything is apparently better than Belgium," wrote Fouad Belkacem, the imprisoned leader of the disbanded Islamist group, in a statement posted to Facebook in 2013. It was a sentiment apparently shared by an estimated 300 to 400 Belgian Moslems who have reportedly made their way to Syria to fight. And Belgian fighters have been involved in some of the most high profile events unfolding in Syria. At one point, murdered American journalist James Foley was held by a group of Sharia4Belgium forces of Evil in Syria, according to a Belgian returnee fighter Jejoen Bontinck. He claims to have been held with Foley. Bontinck said he was being held because he wanted to return to Belgium. He claims he went to Syria for humanitarian reasons, not to fight. |
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