{"id":55981,"date":"2014-10-23T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55981"},"modified":"2014-10-23T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:19:28","slug":"3-denver-teen-girls-stopped-from-joining-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55981","title":{"rendered":"3 Denver teen girls stopped from joining ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jihadi<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The FBI stopped three teen age girls \u2014 two sisters, ages 17 and 15, and their 16-year-old friend \u2014 from going to Turkey, possibly to become ISIS brides, when they flew through Frankfurt, Germany last weekend. The girls skipped school on Friday and their families claim they didn’t know what they had planned, according to the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Another U.S. official called the case “concerning” both to the community and to the country in general. The official said the evidence gathered so far made it clear that the girls were headed to Syria, though the official said investigators were still determining what sort of contacts they had in that country. The official said investigators would be trying to figure out whether there were “like-minded” friends and acquaintances in the girls’ social circle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They weren’t the first, and they probably won’t be the last. Lee Smith tries to explain the phenomenon in the Tablet<\/a>; <\/p>\n

A Washington Institute for Near East Policy poll last week showed that the Islamic State has more support in Europe than it does in the Middle East. The poll reported that only 3 percent of Egyptians, 5 percent of Saudis, and under 1 percent of Lebanese \u201cexpressed a positive opinion of the IS.\u201d On the other hand, 7 percent of U.K. respondents had a favorable view of the group, as did 16 percent of French polled\u2014with 27 percent of French citizens between 18-24 responding favorably.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

So, why given a choice between a comfortable, if somewhat boring, life as a pharmacist in Hamburg, or fighting and dying in the desert, are thousands of Western Muslims opting for the latter?<\/p>\n

Because, for all the awesome social services and consumer goods it can offer, Europe has become incapable of endowing the lives of its citizens, Muslim or not, with meaning. A generation of young European Muslims are giving up their relatively easy lives in Malm\u00f6, Marseilles, and Manchester for the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, because Europe is devoid of values worth living\u2014or dying\u2014for. They are leaving for the same reason that Europe\u2019s Jews are moving to Israel: Strength and a sense of purpose can be found elsewhere, whether it\u2019s ISIS, Vladimir Putin, Ali Khameni, or the IDF.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it’s the culture – the more shock that you can elicit from your peers, the more accepted you become. Whether you’re Miley Cyrus or Ron Jeremy swinging on a wrecking ball naked. ISIS is the most shocking organization that you can join, so there you go. I’m actually surprised that Madonna hasn’t joined them yet. We can only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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