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Germany And Sweden: Hundreds Of Citizens Have Joined Islamic State Group
2014-11-23
[Ynet] High-ranking officials in Sweden and Germany reported that hundreds of their citizens joined the ranks of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Iraq and Syria. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said, "We estimate that 550 of our citizens have already joined the Islamic State group, just a few days ago there were only 450."

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened...
Director General of the Swedish Security Service Anders Thornberg said that 300 Swedish citizens left Sweden and joined the Islamic State group. "We know for certain of about one hundred cases, and suspect hundreds of more and presume that there are cases that have not been reported," said Thornberg.
An Nahar adds:
Thornberg said the flow of youths leaving to become jihadists in Syria was rapidly rising.

On their return to Sweden, some are seen as ready to commit terrorist acts at home and have been placed under strict surveillance, the intelligence official added.

Sweden announced late October that it would pass a law banning citizens from taking part in foreign armed conflicts. The previous month, the EU coordinator for anti-terrorism, Gilles de Kerchove, estimated that 3,000 Europeans have joined the ultra-hardline Islamic State group, which has caused global revulsion with its regular videotaped beheadings of hostages.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Now, now, Boyz-n-Girlz, lets not fergit SOUTH AFRICA ...

* TOPIX > [Various] ISLAMIC STATE RECRUITING IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-11-23 22:26  

#3  should read "hundreds of former citizens" if the German and Swedish government had any brains at all about this.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-11-23 13:19  

#2  If they're stuck on stupid, they will let the survivors return.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2014-11-23 10:50  

#1  How's that multi-culti working out for you?
Posted by: Pappy   2014-11-23 09:36  

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