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British FM says Islamic State recruiting British youth in pandemic
2021-03-05
[IsraelTimes] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and other terror organizations are recruiting young people in the UK in "worrying numbers," British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warns.

Speaking in the UK parliament, Raab says the country’s counter-terrorism referral unit saw a seven percent rise in the volume of terrorist content found online in the year up to December 2020.

He adds that British police are seeing "a worrying rise in the proportion of children and teenagers that are now being arrested for terrorism offenses."

Britannia has grappled to contain the threat posed by IS after hundreds of UK nationals traveled to the Middle East and joined the terror group after 2014.

He calls the "accessibility of terrorist content online" during lockdown "a perfect storm" because it gives turbans "digital access to those who are probably the most susceptible to murderous Moslem narratives."
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Anyone remember Four Lions (2010)?
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-03-05 23:22  

#3  I'd check their teeth before I'd let them join my Islamic militia. Brits are notorious for hoof and mouth disease you know.
Posted by: jpal   2021-03-05 13:44  

#2  ^ No problem. Just have the Mossad look for guys named Nigel.
Posted by: Matt   2021-03-05 11:09  

#1  "British youth".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-03-05 03:01  

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