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53. "More and more"?

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:32 PM

Feb 2015

If the story is claiming a trend, It's going to need numbers.

I guess "more and more" sells more papers than "some."

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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