Concern surrounding ISIS over the past week has centered on their sudden, dramatic surge into Iraq, and what their new Islamic State, now more reality than rhetoric, will mean to the region.
But ISIS ability to recruit westerners, with US and EU passports, has been a long-standing issue, and one many have been seeing for quite some time as a serious long-term threat.
The theory was that ISIS recruits would return from Syria to their home countries with contacts to international Islamist militants, and passports that would give them access most jihadists don’t have.
That concern remains real, and ISIS’s high-profile gains in Iraq may even make their recruitment efforts more effective, and ISIS establishment as a more-or-less permanent nation-state may turn this already long-term security threat into an open-ended one.
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The West has recruited the whole of ISIS, as well as our jihadis in Libya… are we the ongoing security threat to the Middle East?
England is supposedly furnishing over 500 ISIS troops .I have no idea how many ISIS troops China furnishes . But China will not let Jihadist back into China . If they try to come back home ? China kills them . This is most likely because China has found them to be a security risk . Or it good be to help the Jihadist accomplish their goal to die for Islam and get their 72 virgins in heaven .