In an interview today on French television, Prime Minister Manuel Valls predicted a massive increase in the number of European recruits fighting for ISIS, saying it could more than triple by year’s end.
“There are 3,000 Europeans in Iraq and Syria today. When you do a projection for the months to come, there could be 5,000 before summer and 10,000 before the end of the year,” Valls warned.
This is just the European contingent of ISIS, of course, but the US State Department recently suggested that 20,000 fighters have already arrived form 100 different nations to join ISIS, and despite US claims of massive body counts, the group just seems to be getting bigger.
Valls went on to say that of the 3,000 estimated Europeans fighting for ISIS, there are believed to be some 1,400 French citizens and residents. There is growing fear that those fighters will eventually return, and the lack of particular knowledge about who they are means they will have access to Western sites that jihadists from the Middle East simply wouldn’t.
"there could be 5,000 before summer and 10,000 before the end of the year"
And here I was hoping he was talking about employment in France.
ROOT CAUSE
Which begs the question, are they joining forces with the Islamic State because of the good it may do for them, or because of the evil misery that Western democracy has done to them?
For Western democracy is the most intelligent race on earth, the white European race, and it is using democracy as a tool to impoverish and enslave all the other races in their nation.
For in each and every Western nation, we find that the high achieving upper half of society, virtually all being white, is hoarding all the wealth.
So, the lesson here is if you treat your own citizens like a red-headed stepchild, eventually they get tired of it. What goes around, comes around, as they say. You want to wage a religious war, then you got to pay the piper.
What about the many Europeans who went to fight for the other side,the Kurds and so on,or those fighting for Israel?Stop both.
Um, so what? Ten thousand more ISIS fighters or not hardly will make much difference. ISIS doesn't lack for manpower as it is. What it lacks is advanced weaponry, allies (overt ones, anyway), international acceptability and respectability, and so on.
As for these folks "returning" to Europe, isn't there such a thing as border control? Why would anyone be allowed into Europe who had spent time in Syria, without a thorough accounting of what they were doing there? But, even failing that, again, so what? If these folks already think that ISIS is a good idea, then they are already serious security risk to the EU. Whether they actually go to Syria or not.
Also, isn't there a good chance that these folks will either be killed or disillusioned? Fighting for ISIS can't be a bed of roses!