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2014-12-19 Europe
One of the Austrian girls who joined IS dead
A UN official says one of two Austrian girls who fled their middle class homes in Vienna to fight in Syria has definitely died in the conflict. The two girls, Samra Kesinovic, 17, and 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic, whose parents are Bosnian refugees, disappeared in April after saying that they wanted to fight in Syria.

They first went to Ankara by plane, and then on into the southern Turkish region of Adana. For a while, no one heard from them. But they appeared on social media brandishing Kalashnikov rifles and surrounded by armed men - photos which police said acted as recruitment posters for young girls.

David Scharia, a senior Israeli expert of the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTED) said, "We received information just recently about two 15-year-old girls, of Bosnian origin, who left Austria, where they had been living in recent years; and everyone, the families and the intelligence services of the two countries, is looking for them. Both were recruited by Islamic State. One was killed in the fighting in Syria, the other has disappeared."

The confirmation comes three months after Austria's government said it had informed the parents of the girls that one of them might have been killed.

An Islamic cleric from Bosnia living in Vienna, Mirsad O., known by the Islamic name of 'Ebu Tejma', was alleged to be responsible for the radicalization of the two young girls. Authorities say he brainwashed them into joining the jihad. He denies it.

Mirsad O. was arrested for his role in an alleged terrorist funding network based in Austria in November.

It is believed both Samra and Sabina married IS jihadis soon after arriving in Syria. The two couples initially lived in the same room but the 15-year-old has reportedly now moved out to a different apartment.

Speaking by text messages to French weekly Paris Match, Sabina denied reports she was pregnant and insisted she was enjoying life in Syria, where she felt free to practice Islam in a way that she did not in Austria. The magazine did manage to confirm she had only been allowed to speak to them with the permission of her husband, who was in the room when she wrote her answers.

She said after arriving in Turkey they crossed into Syria on foot. They ended up in the city of Raqqa, arriving with nothing other than the clothes they were wearing. Sabina said her husband was a soldier and proclaimed, "Here I can really be free. I can practice my religion. I couldn't do that in Vienna."
Posted by ryuge 2014-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 I'm sure she couldn't practice her religion freely in Vienna where there is no stoning, beheading or genital mutilation allowed ... except by really strange people that wear a lot of leather or dress up as stuffed animals. Regardless, now she can fully exercise all the aspects of her religion that are approved by her master husband.
Posted by Super Hose 2014-12-19 00:47||   2014-12-19 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 "Here I can really be free. I can practice my religion. I couldn't do that in Vienna."

Yeah.. Most western countries take a dim view of Human Sacrifices. Particularly when the victim is unwilling.
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-12-19 00:49||   2014-12-19 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3  Samra Kesinovic, 17, and 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic ... Bosnian refugees

Victims of the Evil Serbs.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-19 03:43||   2014-12-19 03:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Gromgoru. I remind you that even before the splitting of Yugoslavia in the meetings of the Bosnian sepatista Party there were ismages of a Muslm horseman trampling Serbs.

I for oine, understand that Serbvs could be wary of peole delightiung in such acts when you, the Serb, have vivid memories both from the discriminations and abuses dutring the Ottoman occupation and of the crimes perpetrated by SS Division Hanschar ythat even sickened the Germans themselves (not an easy thing to do).

So I support the right of Serbs to separate from Bosnia even if I don'(t support the way they behaved during the war.
Posted by JFM 2014-12-19 04:36||   2014-12-19 04:36|| Front Page Top

#5 So this wh.re suppotrted those who cruciy Christains, bhead children and rape Yazidi women and we are supposed to cry for her?

May she burn in hell and may pigs pooo on her grave.
Posted by JFM 2014-12-19 04:38||   2014-12-19 04:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I was being sarcastic, JFM.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-19 07:02||   2014-12-19 07:02|| Front Page Top

#7 So I support the right of Serbs to separate from Bosnia even if I don't support the way they behaved during the war.

I do: morality is based on reciprocity.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-19 07:04||   2014-12-19 07:04|| Front Page Top

#8 We have a Darwin Award finalist!
Posted by ed in texas 2014-12-19 07:16||   2014-12-19 07:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Austrian taxpayers can rejoice.

It's almost like this multicult thing isn't the success the MSM shouts it is constantly!?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-12-19 09:27||   2014-12-19 09:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Okay, so I'm thinking of rhymes for Kloster and this pops out. Gloucester, Worcester... close enough for a limerick?

A wandering sister of Gloucester,
A maundering mystic impostor,
Got hot for the Prophet;
Though he gets her off, it
Bears pondering what it will cost her.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-12-19 14:49||   2014-12-19 14:49|| Front Page Top

#11 It's Advent ZF the Merrier the Moore.
Posted by Shipman 2014-12-19 16:16||   2014-12-19 16:16|| Front Page Top

#12 You are a delight, Zenobia F.
Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-19 18:46||   2014-12-19 18:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Too bad, so sad, tough sh!t.

Enjoy eternity in HELL, girlie.
Posted by Barbara 2014-12-19 19:11||   2014-12-19 19:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Eternity getting pawed at by 72 unibrowed sweaty shahid teen arab virgins. Oh, the humanity, LOL
Posted by Frank G 2014-12-19 21:35||   2014-12-19 21:35|| Front Page Top

#15 reborn in paradise as a goat more like
Posted by Bov Flimbers 2014-12-19 21:57||   2014-12-19 21:57|| Front Page Top

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