The Internet: Where religions come to die

Damian Clairmont, known as Mustafa among his friends in Calgary,

Same went for the other young men from Calgary: Collin and Gregory Gordon.

They all chided their friends for being “hypocrites” 

Losing the battle of the internet !!!!! 

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[size=10pt]We're winning the battle (albeit slowly) even in Egypt![/size]
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Damian's mother :

                               

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...serve.html

England !

al-Qaeda inspired ISIS forces tearing through Iraq have been boosted by 'several hundred' Brits,

ministers told MailOnline.
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We're winning the battle (albeit slowly) even in Egypt!
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For every Damian Clairmont there are dozens of Abdel-Fattah's. 8)

"For example, Abdel-Fattah’s path actually began as a quest to reinforce his faith with knowledge. “When I started university in the 1980s, I realised that I was very knowledgeable about lots of things, except my own religion. So I decided that I was going to delve deep into it and be as expert as possible,” he told me in a noisy watering hole in upscale Zamalek, where philosophy seemed to be the last thing on the punters’ minds.

Instead of confirming and reaffirming his faith, this exercise, Abdel-Fattah admits, gave him “the shock of my life.” At school, he’d been given to believe that the prophet Muhammad was some kind of angel, and his companions were like saints.

But the picture Abdel-Fattah assembled over years of study proved to be very different: the founding fathers and mothers of Islam were very human, for the most part cynically political, motivated by self-interest and riven by infighting, jealousy and overriding ambition, he concluded."

Expect to see more apostates being sentenced to death in the coming years in Muslim countries.  It's a tide they can't push back however. 8)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/world/....html?_r=0

Europe   

[size=12pt]Europe Tries to Stop Flow of Citizens Joining Jihad[/size]

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France’s interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, promoting legislation to address the problem,

said on Tuesday that the number of French citizens who had traveled to fight in the region,

or planned to travel there, had grown 74 percent this year :

to about 1,000. About 350 French citizens are currently on the ground there, he estimated,

including 60 women.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/world/....html?_r=0

Europe   

[size=12pt]Europe Tries to Stop Flow of Citizens Joining Jihad[/size]

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There were similar "flows" of Jihadist in Europe and North American going to fight the Iraq and Afghan wars.  How many of the (literally only hundreds at best count) made it and what happened to them? ::LOL::

Recruits from 74 countries are among the estimated 12,000 foreign militants

in Syria and Iraq, many of them fighting with ISIS, according to Peter Neumann,

a professor at King’s College London, who has culled the figures (click)

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To rephrase this thread headline :
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The Internet: where folks pack up and go DIE for religion ! [/size]
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http://icsr.info/projects/western-foreig...ers-syria/

The primary focus of our research is to explore, understand, and explain:

what motivates young men to become foreign fighters.

Why do they go ?

How do they get there ?

What do they do ?

Will they pose a threat to the West ?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video...edia-video

Social Media via The Internet : " One of the guys from our Facbook DIE " 

Three researchers in a basement at Kings College, London, have tracked and analysed the torrent

of social media posts coming from Syria. It is a conflict they say is 'the most socially-mediated'

in history, leaving a wealth of information to help us understand what is happening