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Surya Gayatri

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7. Thanks for the solidarity, Demeter. Hearing the stories

Reply to Demeter (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 06:34 AM

Nov 2015

of the many young people who have been radicalized is also heartbreaking.

Several mothers of French teenagers, who were converted to radical Islam and ran off to Syria or Yemen, have been interviewed on French TV. Heartwrenching tales.

Their kids led "double lives", dissimulating their newly adopted beliefs, until the day they disappeared.

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What, no armed protesters shooting guns in the air in front of mosques? randome Nov 2015 #1

^^^This!^^^ Surya Gayatri Nov 2015 #2

Full disclosure: there were some attacks on mosques. Yorktown Nov 2015 #4

+Rec, but it's not the "tricouleur", dammit! Yorktown Nov 2015 #3

You're right about the spelling, of course, Yorktown. I was typing too fast, Surya Gayatri Nov 2015 #6

. Demeter Nov 2015 #5

Thanks for the solidarity, Demeter. Hearing the stories Surya Gayatri Nov 2015 #7

I worry about them...will they find out they have been deceived and try to escape? Demeter Nov 2015 #8

Several have already died in Syrian violence-- Surya Gayatri Nov 2015 #9