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Minister: Australian Women Joining IS Foreign Fighters
[AnNahar] Increasing numbers of young women are altering the profile of Australians joining the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, Attorney-General George Brandis said Saturday, enticed by the "false glamour" of the organization. "At an earlier time, perhaps even six months ago, we were concerned almost entirely about young men," Brandis said, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). "But a more recent estimate by the national security agencies suggests that a growing number of young women are travelling to participate in that fighting as well." Brandis said about 90 Australians were now believed to be caught up in the conflict, compared to 70 last year, the ABC reported. Ever more young people were being "enticed and ensnared here in Australia with the false glamour of participating in the civil war on behalf of ISIL, or Daesh," he added, using alternative acronyms for the group. "The Australian people should be aware that this is a real and growing problem." Canberra has passed a law criminalizing travel to terror hotspots without good reason, fearful that nationals will pose a risk when they return radicalized. Under new laws, anyone who heads to nominated areas will face up to 10 years in jail. In December, Senator Brandis accused Islamic snuffies of using imported muscle as "cannon fodder" and "propaganda tools" as he revealed 20 Australian nationals had been killed in Syria and Iraq, where IS snuffies control huge swathes of territory. The problem was not exclusive to Australia in the region, he said, but one also faced by Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-01-25 |
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