Why extreme vetting is important: even the children are dangerous
Approximately 100,000 Islamists, from at least 80 different countries, traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS. The numbers may be as high as 360,000. (1)
It has been estimated that 10% of these Islamist fighters were women. (2)
The average rate of return to Western countries, after training and fighting for an Islamic State was between 20-30%. (2)
In western countries with the largest numbers of people who joined ISIS, stats show that their family and friends played a role in helping them join ISIS. (2)
So, what about the Children?
ISIS has specialized training camps for women and children. Starting 2015, many of these children were funneled into Western countries where they can at some point surface and create terror attacks.
When the “Caliphate Cubs” training camps first started up in 2014, the Islamic State’s social media stated: "We will have future generations trained and ready to fight in the West”.
These ISIS children begin to be trained by age two. At two years of age, ISIS children are taught to execute people, first with handguns, then as soon as they are strong enough, they learn and practice decapitation. Beheading.
ISIS children are trained for many hours every day on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad. The most violent verses and behavior of Muhammad are enforced into these children's minds -- and nothing else. They only learn and obsess over the Quran and Muhammad.
It is highly likely that ISIS training camps have trained some of the “refugees” who have already entered America, thanks to Obama’s massive refugee resettlement program, but many will continue to arrive via the Mexican border. See: There is a clear terrorist pipeline from the Middle East and Africa though Mexico and ISIS has training camps in Mexico.
The top foreign countries who have had their nationals fight with ISIS are: Morocco, Tunisia, Chechnya, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe (predominantly from France, UK, Germany and Belgium).(3) Also high on the list of countries who have had nationals join ISIS are: Algeria, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Netherlands.(3)
Many returned to their home county after training and fighting with ISIS and then applied for visas to America.
Others travel the pipeline into the U.S. through Mexico--a pipeline established by al-Qaeda (see link mentioned above).
Never forget, ISIS was the merger of al-Qaeda in Iraq with al-Qaeda in Syria.
There is a growing popularity of al-Qaeda in the inner cities where there are enclaves of Muslim, called Muslim Towns. See: Muslim Towns in U.S. are establishing No-Go zones
ISIS has claimed on several occasions that their women and children specialize in suicide bombings. ISIS has stated that since women and children are the least likely to be suspected--they can easily enter a mall or shopping center--even a school, without causing suspicion.
There are ISIS training camps in Turkey, Nigeria, Somalia and in Egypt's Sinai, to only name a few. Wherever al-Qaeda has a base, ISIS has a base.
ISIS has received pledges of allegiance from al-Shabaab in Somalia and Boko Haram in Nigeria. Boko Haram controls 6 times more territory than ISIS did at its peak.
In early January 2017, ISIS released more videos of their "Caliphate Cubs" showing young children executing people using different methods. ISIS posts these images on many different social media platforms to generate enlistment of child fighters.
ISIS has developed a free mobile app targeting western children. They promote the app on social media and ask young Muslims living in the West to destroy western landmarks. According to ISIS social media, Muslim children will be rewarded greatly if they carry out attacks in the West.
It has been estimated that 10% of these Islamist fighters were women. (2)
The average rate of return to Western countries, after training and fighting for an Islamic State was between 20-30%. (2)
In western countries with the largest numbers of people who joined ISIS, stats show that their family and friends played a role in helping them join ISIS. (2)
So, what about the Children?
ISIS has specialized training camps for women and children. Starting 2015, many of these children were funneled into Western countries where they can at some point surface and create terror attacks.
When the “Caliphate Cubs” training camps first started up in 2014, the Islamic State’s social media stated: "We will have future generations trained and ready to fight in the West”.
These ISIS children begin to be trained by age two. At two years of age, ISIS children are taught to execute people, first with handguns, then as soon as they are strong enough, they learn and practice decapitation. Beheading.
ISIS children are trained for many hours every day on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad. The most violent verses and behavior of Muhammad are enforced into these children's minds -- and nothing else. They only learn and obsess over the Quran and Muhammad.
It is highly likely that ISIS training camps have trained some of the “refugees” who have already entered America, thanks to Obama’s massive refugee resettlement program, but many will continue to arrive via the Mexican border. See: There is a clear terrorist pipeline from the Middle East and Africa though Mexico and ISIS has training camps in Mexico.
The top foreign countries who have had their nationals fight with ISIS are: Morocco, Tunisia, Chechnya, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe (predominantly from France, UK, Germany and Belgium).(3) Also high on the list of countries who have had nationals join ISIS are: Algeria, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Netherlands.(3)
Many returned to their home county after training and fighting with ISIS and then applied for visas to America.
Others travel the pipeline into the U.S. through Mexico--a pipeline established by al-Qaeda (see link mentioned above).
Never forget, ISIS was the merger of al-Qaeda in Iraq with al-Qaeda in Syria.
There is a growing popularity of al-Qaeda in the inner cities where there are enclaves of Muslim, called Muslim Towns. See: Muslim Towns in U.S. are establishing No-Go zones
ISIS has claimed on several occasions that their women and children specialize in suicide bombings. ISIS has stated that since women and children are the least likely to be suspected--they can easily enter a mall or shopping center--even a school, without causing suspicion.
There are ISIS training camps in Turkey, Nigeria, Somalia and in Egypt's Sinai, to only name a few. Wherever al-Qaeda has a base, ISIS has a base.
ISIS has received pledges of allegiance from al-Shabaab in Somalia and Boko Haram in Nigeria. Boko Haram controls 6 times more territory than ISIS did at its peak.
In early January 2017, ISIS released more videos of their "Caliphate Cubs" showing young children executing people using different methods. ISIS posts these images on many different social media platforms to generate enlistment of child fighters.
ISIS has developed a free mobile app targeting western children. They promote the app on social media and ask young Muslims living in the West to destroy western landmarks. According to ISIS social media, Muslim children will be rewarded greatly if they carry out attacks in the West.
Notes
(1) Syria reports at least 360,000 foreign fighters have come to Syria from 93 different countries.
Others say 27,000-31,000 from 86 countries arrived in 2015 (but this does not count foreign fighters who arrived from 2012-2014; and stats from 2016 are not in yet). Soufan Group research study:
http://soufangroup.com/wpcontent/uploads/2015/12/TSG_ForeignFightersUpdate_FINAL.pdf
State Department stats state that ISIS alone had at least 30,000 foreign fighters is Syria in 2015 (that does not count the 10 other major Islamist armies in Syria, including the enormous army of Jaish al-Fateh):
https://www.rt.com/usa/345269-40000-foreign-terrorists-syria/
Syria's stats on foreign fighters in Syria are more accurate because they are on the ground fighting the various Islamist armies in all fourteen of Syria's provinces. They keep track of the numbers and the various nationalities of the fighters.
Furthermore, the research studies are extremely low because they do not take into account that:
a. Many governments do not release estimates or travel documentation of the number of their citizens who have gone to Syria or Iraq.
b. For some countries, the number may reflect all those who have gone, while others subtract those who have died or returned; for example, those who left from Europe, as many as 30% returned, and those numbers are omitted.
c. Some countries do not include women and children.
d. In all cases it is likely that more have gone than the relevant government is prepared to admit.
e. Stats from the Soufan Group, data from 2015, did not include the number of fighters that went to Syria from 2011-2013; hence, the number of 30,000 is extremely lower than actuality of fighters in Syria and Iraq in totality.
f. Countries like Chechnya do not give the numbers of children who are in the training camps, including the Caliphate Cubs, in which Chechnyans enter their children as young as three years old.
g. Many Islamist fighters cross into Syria unnoticed or illegally from Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, and are not counted.
h. Indonesia has the largest Muslim population of any other country in the world; a population of approximately 202.9 million Muslims. The Indonesian government did not give stats for these reports. But there have been several instances that allude to the fact that Indonesians support the idea of terrorism as a means to spread Islam and Islamic Law.
Indonesia has experienced many episodes of Islamic terrorism and jihadist movements since declaring independence in 1945. After proclaiming an “Islamic State” in 1949, the organization Darul Islam denounced the Indonesian state as apostate and staged a series of armed rebellions in the 1950s and 1960s before moving underground.
Daryl Islam then split into numerous groups, including Laskar Jihad, which led a campaign against Christians throughout Indonesia. Another offshoot group, Jemaah Islamiyah, conducted the 2002 Bali bombings. Indonesian jihadists have also gone to Afghanistan as mujahideen.
With a population of 202,900,000 Muslims, a certain percentage of those would most certainly support ISIS and go to Syria, especially considered the Islamic State's slick recruitment Internet magazine and social media propaganda sites which are very appealing to young Muslims -- even in America.
* Much of the information about Indonesia came from: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/isis-indonesia-foreign-fighters/422403/
(2) Soufan Group research study:
http://soufangroup.com/wpcontent/uploads/2015/12/TSG_ForeignFightersUpdate_FINAL.pdf
(3) Soufan Group pages 7-10
Other Sources
ISIS has not been eliminated
ISIS recruitment magazine
Notes
(1) Syria reports at least 360,000 foreign fighters have come to Syria from 93 different countries.
Others say 27,000-31,000 from 86 countries arrived in 2015 (but this does not count foreign fighters who arrived from 2012-2014; and stats from 2016 are not in yet). Soufan Group research study:
http://soufangroup.com/wpcontent/uploads/2015/12/TSG_ForeignFightersUpdate_FINAL.pdf
State Department stats state that ISIS alone had at least 30,000 foreign fighters is Syria in 2015 (that does not count the 10 other major Islamist armies in Syria, including the enormous army of Jaish al-Fateh):
https://www.rt.com/usa/345269-40000-foreign-terrorists-syria/
Syria's stats on foreign fighters in Syria are more accurate because they are on the ground fighting the various Islamist armies in all fourteen of Syria's provinces. They keep track of the numbers and the various nationalities of the fighters.
Furthermore, the research studies are extremely low because they do not take into account that:
a. Many governments do not release estimates or travel documentation of the number of their citizens who have gone to Syria or Iraq.
b. For some countries, the number may reflect all those who have gone, while others subtract those who have died or returned; for example, those who left from Europe, as many as 30% returned, and those numbers are omitted.
c. Some countries do not include women and children.
d. In all cases it is likely that more have gone than the relevant government is prepared to admit.
e. Stats from the Soufan Group, data from 2015, did not include the number of fighters that went to Syria from 2011-2013; hence, the number of 30,000 is extremely lower than actuality of fighters in Syria and Iraq in totality.
f. Countries like Chechnya do not give the numbers of children who are in the training camps, including the Caliphate Cubs, in which Chechnyans enter their children as young as three years old.
g. Many Islamist fighters cross into Syria unnoticed or illegally from Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, and are not counted.
h. Indonesia has the largest Muslim population of any other country in the world; a population of approximately 202.9 million Muslims. The Indonesian government did not give stats for these reports. But there have been several instances that allude to the fact that Indonesians support the idea of terrorism as a means to spread Islam and Islamic Law.
Indonesia has experienced many episodes of Islamic terrorism and jihadist movements since declaring independence in 1945. After proclaiming an “Islamic State” in 1949, the organization Darul Islam denounced the Indonesian state as apostate and staged a series of armed rebellions in the 1950s and 1960s before moving underground.
Daryl Islam then split into numerous groups, including Laskar Jihad, which led a campaign against Christians throughout Indonesia. Another offshoot group, Jemaah Islamiyah, conducted the 2002 Bali bombings. Indonesian jihadists have also gone to Afghanistan as mujahideen.
With a population of 202,900,000 Muslims, a certain percentage of those would most certainly support ISIS and go to Syria, especially considered the Islamic State's slick recruitment Internet magazine and social media propaganda sites which are very appealing to young Muslims -- even in America.
* Much of the information about Indonesia came from: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/isis-indonesia-foreign-fighters/422403/
(2) Soufan Group research study:
http://soufangroup.com/wpcontent/uploads/2015/12/TSG_ForeignFightersUpdate_FINAL.pdf
(3) Soufan Group pages 7-10
Other Sources
ISIS has not been eliminated
ISIS recruitment magazine