The Islamic State captures teenage girls in Spanish Muslim communities through propaganda disseminated through social networks. Ceuta is the area most affected by this trend. In one of the known cases a girl from the region (just under 14 years old) tried to travel to Iraq through Turkey, but was intercepted in Melilla. She wanted…
Security forces are concerned about the fascination that is rising among Spanish young Muslims for the Islamic State or Daesh. The concern is even greater in the case of adolescents who are concentrated in the city of Ceuta, where radical Islam has already fished at least five minor children, according to counter-terrorism sources. Experts call…
Riay Tatary, president of the Union of Islamic Communities (UCIDE) of Spain defended yesterday that Islam “is peace and therefore can not be used as a synonym for violence or terrorism.” He also insisted that the Muslim Spanish community is well integrated and that “ radical ideas are being transmitted over the Internet, in the…
According with one of the girls arrested in August of this year, the indoctrination is centred on the value of Jihad and on the obligation of participating in the “holy war”. The indoctrination was performed via Whatsapp by one Imam who belongs to a very well organized ISIS support network. The network acts quickly and…
More and more young individuals (under 14 years old0 are being intercepted by Spanish authorities for being involved in cyber Jihadism. Two of them (young girls from Ceuta) were arrested when they were getting ready to departure to Syria. According to the local experts, the Internet works perfectly for the radicalization of youth and their…
