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leftynyc

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38. It's not like there hasn't

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:01 PM

Feb 2015

been MOUNTAINS of exposure to what isis is up to these days. Beheading Christians, burning Muslims alive and it's not like they live in some backwater place. Yes, they're young but not THAT young. I have zero sympathy and frankly, I would revoke their passports before I'd let them come back and infect others with their delusions about isis.

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ISIS successfully recruiting more and more young western Muslim women... [View all] Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 OP

Better that they leave to fulfill their destiny over there rather than become geek tragedy Feb 2015 #1

Wow randys1 Feb 2015 #2

I rarely agree with him jamzrockz Feb 2015 #9

These are stupid kids, there is a difference randys1 Feb 2015 #11

Exactly, they're little more than kids, 15-16. God knows, anybody Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #19

They must be halfwits cwydro Feb 2015 #34

Out of control hormones, the need to rebel and slick Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #37

I was quoting my elderly mother actually, cwydro Feb 2015 #40

Ah, the folly of youth... Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #45

Yeah, I was pretty damn foolish too, cwydro Feb 2015 #49

Apparently, according to other accounts I've read, Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #62

I would guess they get a line on the recruiting sites thru the mosque riderinthestorm Feb 2015 #72

Nope. Sorry. tabasco Feb 2015 #94

You think the vast majority of the home grown types aren't stupid kids (many literally children)? TheKentuckian Feb 2015 #93

agreed samsingh Feb 2015 #80

There's a nightmare in store for them Man from Pickens Feb 2015 #3

Meh. Sign up with the most evil cause on the planet, karma. geek tragedy Feb 2015 #4

Have a little understanding for the vulnerabilities of the young... Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #8

The targets are well aware of what ISIS does to 'infidels.' geek tragedy Feb 2015 #15

that's pretty cold Man from Pickens Feb 2015 #13

Not saying they deserve it, but they're putting themselves in danger out of a desire geek tragedy Feb 2015 #18

Agree, a case of egregiously bad judgment. Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #22

we're not saying they deserve to be raped - we're saying it's going to happen and they are samsingh Feb 2015 #82

neither am i samsingh Feb 2015 #81

True about the 'home-grown' terrorist threat... Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #5

The target is people who were never truly at home in western civilization. geek tragedy Feb 2015 #10

A newphew of mine is Iranian Fumesucker Feb 2015 #21

I can assure you if he grew up in Iran he would not be joining ISIS. geek tragedy Feb 2015 #23

How do you know that's what they are hearing? Fumesucker Feb 2015 #25

I will save all of my sympathy for the young people who get murdered and tortured, or watch geek tragedy Feb 2015 #30

It'll probably happen to some of these kids too.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #35

Precisely, the MSM is just more adults trying to control Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #43

i'm with you - i have no sympthany for people who are uprooting their lives and not samsingh Feb 2015 #83

It's not like there hasn't leftynyc Feb 2015 #38

I don't even own a TV, not everyone does, I have a radio in a drawer for emergencies Fumesucker Feb 2015 #41

I'm sorry, but you'd leftynyc Feb 2015 #57

But if that were true, you would never have run into the propaganda - which includes Yo_Mama Feb 2015 #89

'Blame the victims when it comes to vulnerable children', indeed! Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #24

If he's from Iran, then he's a Shiite Baptist and most certainly would not have joined the Sunni Bluenorthwest Feb 2015 #66

The 'Whitehouse Conference to Counter Violent Extremism' was Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #47

people attracted to ISIS may physically be present in western societies, but never shared geek tragedy Feb 2015 #50

Yikes. cyberswede Feb 2015 #31

it sounds cold, but who would want ISIS sympathizers living in their neighborhood? geek tragedy Feb 2015 #48

i wouldn't samsingh Feb 2015 #88

agreed samsingh Feb 2015 #79

Social Darwinism in action Android3.14 Feb 2015 #6

So here's what I don't get B2G Feb 2015 #7

If you want to know the real reason LittleBlue Feb 2015 #14

Also jamzrockz Feb 2015 #16

They may come from well-off families, but they are Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #17

What boobs... n/t greytdemocrat Feb 2015 #12

Not cool Android3.14 Feb 2015 #27

"Women" is an awfully strange word to describe minor girls. "Children" or "teen girls"? Sure. LeftyMom Feb 2015 #20

Agree, hence the use of 'YOUNG women', because they're Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #29

I'm sorry for these girls, they are very young and at an age where this kind of propaganda dissentient Feb 2015 #26

To an extent I blame the culture that leaves them vulnerable to this propaganda Fumesucker Feb 2015 #28

Ok, but religious traditions are deeply rooted in most of culture dissentient Feb 2015 #33

If many people do a stupid thing that does not mean it's not a stupid thing.. Fumesucker Feb 2015 #39

I have more respect for religious beliefs and traditions than you do dissentient Feb 2015 #42

ISIS is doing what power mad nutjobs have always done Fumesucker Feb 2015 #44

Fair enough. I just see this differently. To me, ISIS is like a child molester in this situation dissentient Feb 2015 #46

You'd be surprised how often the child molester is brought into the kid's life by the parent(s). Fumesucker Feb 2015 #51

Well, my sympathies. I certainly didn't know I would be bringing up bad memories dissentient Feb 2015 #54

We're good... Fumesucker Feb 2015 #55

And the potential recruits are 'groomed' by ISIS' Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #64

I also blame Western culture for demonizing Islam. Maedhros Feb 2015 #56

Yeah, I don't disagree with that either Fumesucker Feb 2015 #59

I agree. Rhinodawg Feb 2015 #61

As the Jesuits say (in a firghteningly similar context), Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #36

Where on the web do they recruit them? cwydro Feb 2015 #32

Don't know, but French President Hollande wants Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #67

Scary. Nt cwydro Feb 2015 #85

What's happening to them once they get there? aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #52

ISIS is especially good at organizing their new recruits-- Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #69

"married off to a deserving male 'jihadi'" aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #75

Well, the Prophet did allow up to four--although I suspect that Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #78

They're married off. Yo_Mama Feb 2015 #90

"More and more"? Orsino Feb 2015 #53

Well, if you prefer, 'increasing numbers' of young women, just as they are Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #63

Interesting article so far, but doesn't seem to make a case for growing recruitment... Orsino Feb 2015 #65

Yep....I like it. Rhinodawg Feb 2015 #58

Well, if you're just too stressed out by the plethora of choices Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #70

Dulce et Decorum Est DonCoquixote Feb 2015 #60

Foolish. Dawson Leery Feb 2015 #68

Well, I'd say make them undergo some sort of Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #74

Awful. Shrouded, disappeared, enslaved and most likely pregnant at 15-16 yrs old riderinthestorm Feb 2015 #71

They are cutting themselves off from their families and the only Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #73

The family's pain must be terrible. Just terrible. riderinthestorm Feb 2015 #76

There was recently a documentary here on French TV Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #77

apparently the mother and sister of the boston bombers were on their side in perpretating the samsingh Feb 2015 #87

assuming the family is not into the propaganda themselves. samsingh Feb 2015 #84

I wondered about them too. Rhinodawg Feb 2015 #86

Dumbasses! Quantess Feb 2015 #91

Yes, I fear they'll live to regret their bad judgment... Surya Gayatri Feb 2015 #92