Tag: Turkey 3-4 billion

ISIS, Islamophobia, Media, Tony Abbott, Vilification

Youth are the recruits, alienated, disadvantaged,disaffected, estranged, like moths to a flame join various movements in hope. The Sunni uprising is just one
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10:45 16/09/2014 » Society

When you consider there are 12-14 billion Sunnis worldwide how many such young people are there to fill the ranks? If these young disenchanted kids feel emotionally seperated from family and friends in their world and need a sense of hope opportunity and justice  aren’t they ready to be recruited into any number of  movements. At the moment the non secular Sunni uprising is just one. Remember the Spanish civil war in the 30’s youth of the world were drawn to it like moths to a flame. At present and for sometime to come  will that flame only be confined to the Middle East. If we go rushing in where angels fear to tread as  is Abbott’s want  saying ‘god and right is on our side’ aren’t we just waving a red flag?

Do your math how many potential recruits are in that figure of billions ready to fight what they see as the forces of repression and injustice? Forces they see as ‘the dark side’. Franco’s facist forces were defending the country from the evil of socialism, disbelief in god and the German bombs gave their ground forces the advantage. There wasn’t a pool of 3-4 billion to help out. Obama seemed to have a sense of folly  but it seems he’s been pushed and  our TonyAbbott is the fastest coalition member off the blocks. Someone forgot to tell him Christian Jews & Muslims believe in the same Abrahamic God. Closed borders are difficult to protect the possible fuel he’s about to throw on this fire.

ISIS draws a steady stream of recruits from Turkey

By CEYLAN YEGINSU
The New York Times

Having spent most of his youth as a drug addict in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Turkey’s capital, Can did not think he had much to lose when he was smuggled into Syria with 10 of his childhood friends to join the world’s most extreme jihadist group.

After 15 days at a training camp in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto headquarters of the group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the 27-year-old Can was assigned to a fighting unit. He said he shot two men and participated in a public execution. It was only after he buried a man alive that he was told he had become a full ISIS fighter.

“When you fight over there, it’s like being in a trance,” said Can, who asked to be referred to only by his middle name for fear of reprisal. “Everyone shouts, ‘God is the greatest,’ which gives you divine strength to kill the enemy without being fazed by blood or splattered guts,”

As many as 1,000 Turks have joined ISIS, according to Turkish news media reports and government officials here. Recruits cite the group’s ideological appeal to disaffected youths as well as the money it pays fighters from its flush coffers. The C.I.A. estimated last week that the group had from 20,000 to 31,500 fighters in Iraq and Syria.

So far, Mr. Erdogan has resisted pleas to take aggressive steps against the group, citing the fate of 49 Turkish hostages ISIS has held since militants took over Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, in June. Turkey declined to sign a communiqué last Thursday that committed a number of regional states to take “appropriate” new measures to counter ISIS, frustrating American officials.

Hacibayram, a ramshackle neighborhood in the heart of Ankara’s tourist district, has morphed into an ISIS recruitment hub over the past year. “It began when a stranger with a long, coarse beard started showing up in the neighborhood,”  “The next thing we knew, all the drug addicts started going to the mosque.”