ISIS gets know-nothing recruits and rejoices

[Luiz 4,253]

 

PARIS –  The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly ignorant.

The extremist group could hardly have hoped for better.

At the height of Islamic State's drive for foot soldiers in 2013 and 2014, typical recruits included the group of Frenchmen who went bar-hopping with their recruiter back home, the recent European convert who now hesitantly describes himself as gay, and two Britons who ordered "The Koran for Dummies" and "Islam for Dummies" from Amazon to prepare for jihad abroad. Their intake process complete, they were grouped in safe houses as a stream of Islamic State imams came in to indoctrinate them, according to court testimony and interviews by The Associated Press.

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An AP analysis of thousands of leaked Islamic State documents reveals most of its recruits from its earliest days came with only the most basic knowledge of Islam. A little more than 3,000 of these documents included the recruit's knowledge of Shariah, the system that interprets into law verses from the Koran and "hadith" — the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad.

According to the documents, which were acquired by the Syrian opposition site Zaman al-Wasl and shared with the AP, 70 percent of recruits were listed as having just "basic" knowledge of Shariah — the lowest possible choice. Around 24 percent were categorized as having an "intermediate" knowledge, with just 5 percent considered advanced students of Islam. Five recruits were listed as having memorized the Koran.

The findings address one of the most troubling questions about ISIS recruitment in the United States and Europe: Are disaffected people who understand Shariah more prone to radicalization? Or are those with little knowledge of Islam more susceptible to the group's radical ideas that promote violence?

The documents suggest the latter. The group preys on this religious ignorance, allowing extremists to impose a brand of Islam constructed to suit its goal of maximum territorial expansion and carnage as soon as recruits come under its sway.

Islamic State's most notorious new supporters appear to have an equally tenuous link with religion. Mohamed Lahouaiyej Bouhlel, who killed 85 people by plowing a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France, was described by family and neighbors as indifferent to religion, volatile and prone to drinking sprees, with a bent for salsa dancing and a reported male lover.

Unlike Omar Mateen, the Orlando attacker, Bouhlel did not make a public declaration of allegiance to Islamic State, much less prove he had direct ties to extremists in the war zone. Still, the group was quick to claim both as foot soldiers.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/08/15/isis-gets-know-nothing-recruits-and-rejoices.html

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6 minutes ago, Luiz said:

Or are those with little knowledge of Islam more susceptible to the group's radical ideas that promote violence?

In my experience, the most hateful Christians I've met have never even cracked open a Bible so this wouldn't surprise me.

On a semi-related note, more than 30,000 Muslims gathered in Britain today to protest extremism and there's a hashtag #IllWalkWithYou being shared by Americans offering to escort Muslims to and from their place of worship after the mosque leader and his associate were killed last Saturday in New York. It's a real love fest amidst the hateful rhetoric against Muslims and the incitement of violence and hate by a certain presidential candidate.

Let ISIS writhe. Their leader was just killed a couple days ago too if I remember correctly. They're dying, thankfully. Let's just hope we can prevent another organization like them from rising out of the ashes.

 

[QueenGaga 3,447]

I don't these extremist from ISIS are actual Muslims because they do exactly the opposite of what Islam and every religion teaches humanity. They belong to no religion. They're just animals.

[AlphaMonster 1,806]

I lost my sh*t while reading the gays who consider joining ISIS.
There are way more effective ways to commit suicide without traveling that far.