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| 'Stay-at-Home' Jihadists Pose New Threat, Dutch Warn |
| 2015-04-23 |
| [AnNahar] While European intelligence focuses on the dangers of Islamist fighters returning from Iraq or Syria, the Netherlands warned Wednesday of the growing threat from radicalized Moslems who have never left home. These "stay-at-home" turbans are sometimes "frustrated after failing to join the fight" in the Middle East," the Dutch security service AIVD said in its annual report. They could also never have had the intention of going to the battlefield but "get radicalized at home by the propaganda of groups such as 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... ," which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, it said. Around 180 Dutch nationals have traveled to join Islamic State or other Islamist groups, according to the latest figures. Around 20 have been killed in fighting, and 35 have returned to the Netherlands. The report said there were "several hundred" jihadists in the Netherlands at the moment, and "thousands" of sympathizers. The would-be jihadists pose a threat to the Netherlands as they could act on calls by Islamic State leaders to carry out domestic attacks in response to air strikes on areas under their control. "They feel close to a group without belonging to it and could end up committing violent crimes," the AIVD said, noting that their varied profiles make them difficult to identify: they could be highly educated or have left school early, religious or adventurous, Moroccan, Turkish, Caribbean or Dutch. An increasing number of women are also joining Islamist groups, around a quarter of the total, according to the AIVD, while around 30 children with a Dutch parent currently live in Islamist-controlled territory, half of whom were born there. Those returning to the Netherlands are not necessarily a threat as many of them have been disappointed by their first-hand experiences of jihad. "The romantic image of a glorious fight against the infidel can be very different to the reality on the ground," the AIVD said. "They might find themselves doing the cleaning or washing up instead." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 I swear! You can't make some people happy. They bitch if they leave, they bitch if they stay. News flash: You're never going to make these people into well rounded poulders. (Of course, with the Dutch, there's always the same solution they used with the South Moluccans...) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-04-23 15:08 |
| #1 Perceptive of them |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-04-23 00:56 |