Child Protection Council: ‘jihadi children’ are doing fine

In June Azzedine C. was suspected to leave to Syria together with his (ex-) wife and their sons. Thereupon their passports were withdrawn. An investigation began, to the risk of leaving to Syria and the general circumstances in the family. Police officers told that the situation was not good: the father was said to be…

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“Jihadism has become a German phenomenon.”

“German jihadists are participating in Islamic State’s war of terror. Security forces fear they could also pose a threat to the country. Guido Steinberg is an expert on Islam and Islamism. He has written a book about Germany’s jihadi fighters. Bettina Marx spoke to him about the country’s home-grown fighters.”

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Jihadi recruits on Volkel

A radicalized ex-military tried to recruit his ex-colleagues for the jihad. The Dutch secret security services MIVD and AIVD are investigating the case. The ex-military approached his ex-colleagues by mail. But because of security issues spokesperson of neither the airbase where the ex-military worked or the security services can give any information on this issue….

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Profiles of British Muslims going to fight for Jihad

More profiles of young British Jihadists have been released. Samiun Rahman, a young man arrested in Dhaka as an ISIS volunteer to fight in Syria was a serious rock singer and guitarist with a recording contract with a British music company. According to police, Rahman had turned to militant Islam just over two years ago…

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Jihadists, Hamas, the veil: does France have more tension with radical Islam than its neighbors?

August 22, 2014 A comparative survey between England, Germany and France has created controversy due to its results concerning France. When asked about their opinions about Islamists in the Islamic State of Iraq, those who were polled in France expressed a 15% positive opinion, compared with 7% in Britain and 2% in Germany.  Although the…

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