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    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/10...-jihadis-cash/


    South Africa has become a key source for ISIS of not only money, but also jihadist fighters who typically hail from a small area of Johannesburg, diplomatic and intelligence officials told Fox News.


    Young South Africans are flocking to the Middle East to join the black-clad terrorist army in Syria and Iraq, typically flying to Turkey and then making their way south to the so-called caliphate, according to officials.


    “We could say with certainty that 50 to 60 persons, South African citizens, have joined ISIS in Syria, [but] there are some reports suggesting that more than a hundred have done so, and as many as 300 or more,” Iraqi Ambassador to South Africa Hashim Al- Alawi told Fox News.



    Al-Alawi believes there could be many more ISIS recruits leaving South Africa who get to the front line undetected. While ISIS recruits come from throughout the country, most are radicalized and lured from two downtown districts of Johannesburg, Mayfair and Fordsburg. Two South Africans killed ealier this year in Syria came from the area, which also was once home to Samantha Lewthwaite, the British so-called “White Widow” terrorist.


    Non-Muslims are not welcome in the downtown area known for spawning terrorists. A Fox News crew that recently tried to film near a Mayfair mosque was threatened and chased from the area. The ominous encounter raised for the first time the specter of “no-go zones,” or areas where Muslim extremists have sole control of the streets.


    Sources told Fox News ISIS, working through the Internet and through radical clerics on the ground, is using sophisticated psychological methods to brainwash and recruit young South Africans. The radicalizing messages include instructions on how to get from Africa to Syria and Iraq without detection.


    Those who respond to ISIS’ call leave through Johannesburg’s main international airport, where just weeks ago, five men were nabbed with $6 million and believed headed for the Islamic State. Earlier this year, a 15-year-old girl was pulled from a plane minutes before takeoff after her family told police she had taken a large amount of money and disappeared. She was on a flight to Turkey, to slip into Syria to become an ISIS bride of war.


    Institute for Security Studies analyst Martin Ewi said it is no mystery why some South Africans want to join ISIS.


    "It is because of their belief in the message, the propaganda," Ewi said.


    Sources told Fox News South African authorities are concerned enough about the situation to have established a specialized a deep undercover unit dedicated to stemming the outgoing tide of jihadist warriors, a development intelligence officials would neither confirm nor deny.
    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

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    Provocative, not entirely inaccurate.

    http://davidstockmanscontracorner.co...home-to-roost/
    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

  3. #53

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    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

  4. #54

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    Why ISIS is not gaining traction in the world's most populous Muslim country:

    http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...ghters/422403/

    In November, The New York Times pointed to one factor behind the muted response to ISIS in Indonesia: Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), an Islamic organization that claims to have 50 million members. NU preaches an Islam of compassion, inclusivity, and tolerance of other faiths, as opposed to ISIS’s fundamentalist, Wahhabi-inspired theology.
    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

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    For those who think that these events have nothing to do with the past.

    "Spain which will come under the strongest attack as the West is forced to 'pay dearly' for having crushed Muslim rule in Andalusia - more than 500 years ago."

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3424684/White-jihadi-s-chilling-threat-ISIS-warn-West-pay-dearly-terror-attacks-worse-9-11-crushing-Muslim-rule-Spain-500-years-ago.html#ixzz3ymi2AHE
    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

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    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

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    For those who see only the extremist side of Islam:

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/econo...st-explains-18

    The Ahmadi creed is “Love for all, hatred for none” and they have been at the forefront of anti-extremism and anti-radicalisation campaigns in Britain and elsewhere. However this has not spared them the wrath of extremists from their own faith.
    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

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    http://mini.iol.co.za/sunday-tribune...-to-sa-2030592

    Family want Isis executioner brought home to SA

    Durban - A South African family of seven who left South Africa to join Islamic State (IS) has sent out an SOS after their 18-year-old son, Eesa, was shot in the head and is in a coma.
    The Moosagie family of Port Elizabeth left in January last year and are believed to be in Raqqa, Syria, the capital of Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate.
    They have made contact with the South African embassy in Turkey asking for help. They were expected to cross into Turkey but with their wounded son in a critical condition they have not been able to make their way across the border.
    The family comprises Mufti Rashid Moosagie, an Islamic educator, his wife, daughter, two sons, a daughter-in-law and a grandchild.
    His brother, Moulana Allie Moosagie, said he hoped the family would return safely and realise its mistake in aligning with IS.
    “I was very upset when I heard they left to join IS. I was in Saudi Arabia for Umrah (holy pilgrimage) at the time. If I was in South Africa, I would have tried to stop them.
    “This has caused so much trouble in our family and has even put my family in danger. I have had no contact with them since they left but I have heard through other family members that they are trying to come back and want help. My nephew could have been killed.
    “This is horrible. But praise to Allah he is still alive. IS does not represent Islam. Why must we (Muslims) fight someone else’s power struggle? I hope they have realised their mistake,” he said.
    According to Allie, an Islamic scholar in Cape Town who has a doctorate in Islamic Law from UCT, he and his brother, Rashid, shared a different world.
    “He was always isolated from society and became radicalised while growing up,” said Moosagie. Eesa, who was not married when he left South Africa, seemed to have been involved in active combat.
    In a Facebook post he bragged about how he had “beheaded an infidel” in Mosul, Iraq, last November. Eesa’s profile picture depicts IS fighters. He also shared posts with the details of credit card numbers of Iranian bank accounts.
    It is believed IS had hacked into more than 300 accounts.
    In another Facebook post, Eesa shared gruesome images of dead babies covered in blood, with a post directed at a Facebook user who spoke of the French bombings.
    Eesa listed Port Elizabeth as his home while his brother and sister-in-law listed both Port Elizabeth and Raqqa as their home towns.
    Last year, Mufti Rashid wrote an open letter to South Africans on the website of Channel Islam International detailing his decision to join IS. He condemned local Muslims for criticising IS and described how difficult life in a war-torn environment was.
    “You don’t experience true pain like us here. Just a few weeks ago, about 2.5km from us, these kufaar Americans sent in drones to locate a masjid. The fighter jets followed and tried to bomb this masjid but missed, striking an adjacent block of flats, wiping out three families.
    “Brothers you don’t know what real pain is, to see a mother frantically running back to her bombed-down apartment, screaming hysterically to her children whose faint screams under masses of rubble dwindle into a silence never to be heard again. But you don’t utter ONE word of disapproval, which leads us to believe that that you are quite happy with these cruel attacks and bombing,” he said in the letter.
    Martin Ewi, senior researcher on counter-terrorism issues at the Institute for Security Studies said the family should be allowed to return and re-integrate into society on condition they provided a detailed account of their time under the jihadist group.
    “We need to look at the bigger picture. This family carries a wealth of knowledge for our intelligence official and this can help them. If the family is remorseful and has realised that they made a mistake, as an act of compassion, they should be allowed to come back if they can co-operate and assist the government.”
    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

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    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

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