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jreyesc

Austrian youth flocking to ISIL - Features - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...-isil-2014108101425255506.html

ISIL politics youth austria Support Islamophobia

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  • Polarisation of Austrian society has been partly nurtured by the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the right-wing Freedom Party, which won 20.5 percent in last year's parliamentary election.
  • Five street signs surrounding a Vienna mosque were plastered with inflammatory labels such as "Shariastreet" and "IS Recruitment" last week - one among a rising number of anti-Muslim incursions recently.
  • over a new wave of Islamophobia in the wake of a polarising public discourse over the growing number of young Austrians who have joined the ranks of the group calling itself Islamic State, also known as ISIL.  
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  • More than 140 young Austrians are thought to have gone to Syria and Iraq to join ISIL, according to the Ministry of Interior, a number expected to rise as long as the conflict there continues. While this presents a small share of the 12,000 foreign fighters estimated to have been recruited by ISIL so far, Austria with its population of only 8.4 million tops European countries on a per-capita basis, including France and Germany with 700 and 500 fighters, respectively.
  • ncreased border controls for minors, laws forbidding the use of symbols associated with ISIL, as well as the withdrawal of Austrian citizenship for dual nationals.
  • jreyesc on 12 Oct 14
     
    The article is about how many Austrian teens are running away to become ISIL fighters. A new way of Islamophobia is occurring in Austria.
jreyesc

Austria teenage girl jihadis 'want to come home' from Isil - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...nt-to-come-home-from-Isil.html

ISIL politics teenage austria

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  • they don’t feel they can flee from their unwanted new life because too many people now associate them with Isil.
  • girls have discussed going back home but that the country’s current laws were blocking their return.
  • “Once they leave, it is almost impossible.”
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  • having become radicalised after attending a local mosque in Vienna and reading about jihad on the internet.
nicolet1189

Isis's Austrian poster girl jihadi brides 'have changed their minds and want to come ho... - 1 views

www.independent.co.uk/...want-to-come-home-9789547.html

Isis foreigner fighters social media Syria Austria

shared by nicolet1189 on 13 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • arrived in the Middle East via Turkey, 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic and 17-year-old Samra Kesinovic
  • whoever is operating their pages it probably is not the girls, and that they are being used for propaganda.”
  • even if they could flee, Austria’s laws bar them from returning once they have joined a foreign war.
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  • 130 Austrian nationals are believed to have become foreign fighters for Isis.
  • nicolet1189 on 13 Oct 14
     
    Two girls ages 15 and 17, who fled to Syria to join the ISIS movement are not wishing to return to their home countries. The problem, under Austria's laws they are forbidden to return for participating in a foreign war. An interesting aspect of the story is it said to have been ISIS members who were operating their social media accounts for propaganda purposes.
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