Spain said Tuesday it had broken up an online network accused of recruiting young women to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants fighting in Iraq and Syria and arrested four suspects. The arrests came as European nations scramble to halt a surge in young people wanting to travel to Iraq and Syria to…
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…
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…
Just weeks before Scotland’s independence referendum, the country joins the rest of the UK with the growing crisis of disenfranchised, and subsequently radicalized, Muslim youth. After disappearing from her Glasgow home in November 2013, 20 year-old schoolgirl Aqsa Mahmood, now known as “Umm Layth,” resurfaced in Syria apparently married to an ISIS fighter and living…
