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Terror Networks
American IS recruits struggle to fit in with jihadists, study finds
2018-02-08
We’re not Number 1!
[IsraelTimes] Paper finds imported muscle from US lack connections, cultural experience and are kept doing menial tasks, leading to widespread disappointment

US recruits to 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group struggle more than their European counterparts, lacking support networks and field experience and being assigned to menial jobs, a report on American jihadists said Monday.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  emerged from a generally wealthier and better-integrated Moslem community

I thought poverty and isolation were the cause of terrorism. With those ruled out, the only common factor left is... Islam?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-02-08 08:18  

#4  Does acute schadenfreud make me a bad person?

Good on newc.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-02-08 07:20  

#3  But JQC, they're learning a profession, establishing households - some even bought a girlfriend.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-02-08 06:58  

#2  Apparently, these Islamic wannabes who were not real Americans were not good at being baristas and gofers. Probably they would not be worth much as fighters either. Good bomb fodder?
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-02-08 06:49  

#1  Lets face it,
After years in American PC government schools, they are not much worth a fuck other than as baristas.
Posted by: newc   2018-02-08 00:18  

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