Sven Longshanks
Daily Stormer
September 20, 2014
More than 6,000 new recruits have joined ISIS since America started targeting the terrorist group with air strikes last month – at least 1,300 of them foreigners travelling to the Middle East.
But where are they all coming from?
Surely Islam is a religion of peace and our countries are full of the ‘Moderate Muslim’ sect?
What on earth could make the Muslims want their own Caliphate anyway?
This makes no sense at all.
More than 6,000 new recruits have joined ISIS since America started targeting the terrorist group with air strikes last month, it has been claimed.
Of those radical Muslims flocking to ISIS’ ranks, at least 1,300 are foreigners who have arrived from outside the vast swaths of Syria and Iraq currently under the group’s control, according to analysts from the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
News of the surge in numbers comes as France said it would no longer refer to the group as ISIS or the Islamic State, and would instead be calling them by the derogatory title ‘Daesh cutthroats’.
ISIS, which has been condemned as barbaric even by notorious terror group Al Qaeda, rebranded as Islamic State earlier this year after declaring the formation of a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
ISIS’ numbers have swelled in the weeks since America launched the first of 167 air strikes against the militant group on August 8.
A number of rebel commanders who oppose ISIS but also fight against their enemy Syrian president Bashar Assad have warned that the strikes are increasing local support for the terrorists.
As well as aggressive social media-led recruitment campaigns in the Middle East, ISIS has released a number of slick English-language propaganda videos and digital magazines designed to encourage young Muslims living in Western nations to join the terror group.
ISIS aims to convince impressionable young Westerners that its brutal interpretation of Islam is how God intended believers to live and that all those who oppose the group can justifiably be murdered.
The vast majority of the 1,300 foreign fighters who have signed up to join ISIS in the past month are aged between 15 and 20-years-old and have never been involved in a conflict before, according to Abdurrahman Saleh – a spokesman for the Islam Army, part of the Islamic Front rebel group.
ISIS receives approximately 20 new recruits a day in the town of north-west Syrian town al-Bab alone, he told The Times.
Many of these jihadists are thought to have easily entered Syria across the porous border with Turkey, having arrived in the latter country on budget airline flights to popular tourist airport Antayla.