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Tiny minority of extremists: ISIS got 30,000 recruits, Front Page Magazine, Daniel Greenfield, September 29, 2015

That’s 30,000 foreign fighters. Not Syrians or Iraqis. ISIS heavily depends on foreign fighters and there are plenty of Muslims from around the world who are eager to join.

Nearly 30,000 foreign recruits have now poured into Syria, many to join the Islamic State, a doubling of volunteers in just the past 12 months and stark evidence that an international effort to tighten borders, share intelligence and enforce antiterrorism laws is not diminishing the ranks of new militant fighters.

Among those who have entered or tried to enter the conflict in Iraq or Syria are more than 250 Americans, up from about 100 a year ago, according to intelligence and law enforcement officials.

Those are sizable numbers when you consider how much trouble conventional armies have filling recruitment numbers. And ISIS often pays late, though it pays well.

And those 30,000 recruits have often had to smuggle themselves in, dodge law enforcement and make difficult trips. Not only does this shut down the “ISIS is losing” narrative. But if even a group that most Muslims take issue with (mainly because it demands that they accept it or die) can pick up that many recruits, the whole “Tiny minority of extremists” narrative looks shaky.

The worse ISIS behaves, the more Muslims flock to join it. Not only isn’t its brutality a turn off, it’s a turn on. The more horribly it kills people, the more Muslims want to be part of it.

That’s just the reality and it has to be dealt with.

All these lectures on how ISIS is un-Islamic and has nothing to do with Islam haven’t fooled any actual Muslims. All they’ve done is fooled deluded Western leaders into thinking that black is white and up is down.

This entry was posted on September 29, 2015 at 6:29 PM and is filed under Islamic jihad, Islamic slaughter, Islamic State, Islamic supremacy, Islamism, Islamophobia. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

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