Sunday, March 01, 2015


More on the Islamic "lone wolves"

The report below very much confirms what I said yesterday

This summer, Thomas Mücke managed a coup: he dissuaded a young German from joining the Islamic State.

The teenager, a Kurd whose family is originally from Turkey but now living in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, had landed in prison after committing a petty crime. Angry, confined, and looking to lash out, he “had pretty much given up with life and was ready to pack his bag" for Syria, Mr. Mücke says.

But Mücke, a street worker and head of the Berlin-based Violence Prevention Network (VPN) in Berlin, challenged the aspiring jihadi. Did he know that Islamic State fought against Kurds? No, the boy didn’t. In fact, he had no idea about his religion. It was a prison inmate that gave him the idea to go to Syria.

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"In the end he said, 'If IS fights against the Kurds I can’t go with them,'" says Mücke. The youth is out of prison now, and while he will receive counseling for months to come, he is no longer seen as in imminent danger of radicalization.

The success that Mücke and his organization, a nonprofit group that helps incarcerated young people with extremist biographies find a way out, has experienced in dissuading would-be jihadis is significant. But the VPN did not originally target radical Islamists. Rather, it had a much more familiar German radical in mind: violent neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists.

But advocates like Mücke say that just like that fascist ideology, fighting Islamic extremism among the young has less to do with religion than with young people’s vulnerability to the ideology. When dealing with extremists, be they neo-Nazis or jihadis, it is crucial to work with each person individually. And with at least 550 Germans in Syria, part of a swelling group of several thousand Europeans, Germany's lessons in fighting the spread of neo-Nazi ideology could prove key to stopping Islamic radicalization.

“They are both fascist ideologies,” says Mücke, who has counseled hundreds of imprisoned young people, often from the violent right extremist scene. ”One is using a certain idea of the nation, the other is using religion as its instrument.”

SOURCE

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).


4 comments:

Doom said...

If you believe in multiculturalism, sure. If you realize it is a waste of resources and prelude to civil and international war as I do, then sparing someone from doing something now only kicks the issue down the line. Choose as you desire.

Wireless.Phil said...

Yes, multiculturalism.
What the USA has been know fir, and the stupid US GOVERNMENT is bring more of them in daily.
Last I heard it was 70,000 Syrians, just waiting to pounce on Americans.

Wireless.Phil said...

People having a fit over this, but look at it this way:

Enemy
People have made jokes about the enemy in every war the west has fought in.

I'm sure the enemy has plenty of their own about the west, but they believe theirs are true and not a joke! That shows how stupid and uneducated the enemy truly is!
If you can't laugh at jokes about the enemy, you may as well join them!

Saturday Night Live joke about young girls running off to join ISIS.

People really up set by it.
The YouTube is below, watch it before its pulled.

SNL 40th Dakota Johnson In ISIS Commercial Spoof Sketch
http://youtu.be/ptJMXd02tuk


** 'Depraved' or 'hilarious'? SNL viewers divided over shocking Dakota Johnson ISIS skit that sees her run off with the ...
Daily Mail - 9 hours ago
'Apparently NBC and SNL thought it was funny to have a skit showing ISIS driving to an
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2974087/Dad-s-just-ISIS-Saturday-Night-Live-Dakota-Johnson-join-ISIS-parody-Army-commercial.html

Doom said...

Ah, then let us make grand jokes about concentration camps, gulags, the starvation of whole nations, and the urbanification of nations while we are at it. What a gas! Yes, let's laugh with our clearly open minds.

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