[ April 19, 2024 ]
Young or old, black or white, rich or poor, educated or not, Western or Eastern, there is but one common thread, the clear understanding of Islam, which drives these savages to bloody holy war.
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Report: Teenagers Partook in a Quarter of All Terrorist Plots Across Europe
Heritage Foundation cites ISIS’s social media savvy in recruiting young people
August 2, 2017, By Natalie Johnson, Free Beacon:
Teenagers have participated in nearly a quarter of all Islamist terror plots across Europe since 2014, with an alarming uptick in adolescent involvement recorded over the past year, according to a new Heritage Foundation report published Tuesday.
In the first five months of 2017, teenagers participated in eight of 30 documented jihadist plots, or 27 percent—a substantial increase from 2014 and 2015 when young people were involved in just five plots over a two-year span.
The trend so far lags behind 2016, when 22 of the 59 recorded plots, or 37 percent, involved teenagers.
Robin Simcox, a terrorism and national security analyst at the Heritage Foundation who authored the study, said the figures illustrate the Islamic State’s social media savvy in recruiting young people. He said popular encrypted messaging apps, such as Telegram, have enabled ISIS members to contact teenagers in a way terrorist groups in the past could not.
“This is technology that’s very familiar to young people,” Simcox told the Washington Free Beacon. “These online apps have made something that appeared such a daunting prospect in the past—i.e. teenagers having to leave their home and travel to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, or Iraq—to where all the sudden they don’t have to make the journey. They can easily contact terrorist operatives just at the click of a button.”
Former ISIS recruiter Rasheed Kassim, who was killed in an airstrike in February, was a key figure in the terrorist group’s propaganda efforts through his use of social media to lure young French men to carryout attacks. Last year, nine of the 12 terrorist plots in France that involved teens were connected to Kassim, according to the report.
Simcox said Kassim successfully took advantage of the social issues weighing on teens’ minds to entice them into committing acts of terror on behalf of ISIS.
In September, after an all-female ISIS cell attempted to carryout an attack near Notre Dame Cathedral, Kassim took to Telegram to shame young men, writing, “Where are the brothers? You have to understand, if women are taking action it’s clearly because too few men are acting.”
After that message, two 15-year-old boys connected to Kassim were arrested on suspicion of two separate terror plots, followed by the arrest of a 16-year-old boy who was also linked to the ISIS recruit on similar charges.
Simcox said while Kassim was an integral player in recruiting young people to plot attacks, his death has not stopped teens from becoming involved in terrorist activity.
“ISIS calls for attacks are resonating with radicalized teenagers and even preteens,” he said. “I don’t see any great reason to think that would change.”
The Heritage report tracked terrorist plots between January 2014 through May 2017, detecting 142 Islamist plots—or one every eight days—over the 29-month period. ISIS has participated in a majority of those plots, notably killing 130 people in a coordinated attack on Paris in November 2015.
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6 years ago
Generally the worst troublemakers.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Teens see themselves as invincible. They also don’t relate to death. They will willingly believe the idea of orgies in eternity.
6 years ago
Savages! It’s looking very much like our very own .gov is responsible for stirring up this nest of freaks.
6 years ago
Shoot them with .17 calibre bullets, out of deference to their age.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Cute, but screw that. .45s. First in the privates (has to do with houris). Actually, I was thinking of a gang of real people as large as their gang. Take that sign away from that punk, tear it to bits, and shove it down his throat.
6 years ago
Obozo’s “orphans”
6 years ago
Left/Liberal Loons have bought and sold the “Islam is religion of peace” B.S. while ignoring the history of jihad and the present active ongoing jihadi attacks .
While Muslim youths practice the art of torturing and beheading infidels http://bit.ly/2tlUWt3 ………to prepare for future jihadi
attacks !
EU Left/Liberal Loons & police Run away when attacked !
6 years ago
Are those the children that Obama was touting? Ty Barry for trying to destroy our entire country you POS!! Your prison sentence or death squad wont come a minute too soon!! Despicable savage!!
6 years ago
Please, send this to TRUMP.
We can’t have any more MUSLIM refugees here.
I know we reached our “quota” on that and reduced from what Obama stated but we have to park them in a Muslim “safe zone”. The idea that they are even refugees is silly. They can pretend to be a different sect and get along happily with the Muslim sect running the show.
6 years ago
Teenagers. The left’s favorite zombie expendables.
6 years ago
My first reaction after seeing this picture was to put him in my crosshairs and do away with him. Then watch those rats who are in his vicinity scatter like cockroaches!!!
6 years ago
This ratio explains quite a lot for those who care to think about it, if added together the average so far from 2014 to spring 2017 , comes to around a third of ISIS plots in Western Europe involved these muslim teens and these will have been exposed to a Western education system where ever they were brought up which shows an interesting trend, these tykes are supposed to be “blending in” before according to their left wing liberal excusniks, “they start paying tax to provide our pensions”.
I think it’s going to be a very brave and naive observer indeed who chooses to ignore the fact that like the armed division of the Hitler Youth, these committed youngsters will provide in effect shock troops to terrorise civilian societies where ever they’re found in Europe, and it’s unlikely any will be “blending in” providing new and growing tax revenue this side of hell freezing over.
I can predict more government scrambling around existing “prevent” measures in a doomed attempt to reverse these unwelcome but predicted developments, the future isn’t looking rosy at all, just think about the size of the support structure in their closed societies upholding them going unnoticed.
6 years ago
While we teach our kids to be understanding and receptive of theirs, they teach their kids to kill ours.
6 years ago
Of all the terrorist attacks in Europe during the last five years how many of the individuals involved were non-Arab and/or non-African?
6 years ago
Minors are best since they can be easily influenced/brainwashed if from a broken or unhappy families and get away with lenient sentence.There are human rights activists who claim that these poor children don’t understand what they are doing and can be reformed.
If you read any reports on crime from India,there is an increasing trend there to use minors.They are out at the end of “correctional facility” in 3 years.
6 years ago
6 years ago
Why hide their eyes. I don’t care if they are teenagers; they know what they are doing and they did not hide any part of their gruesome signs.
