Some new statistics say that the IS-Support is higher in Europe, America and even Israel than in Syria and Irak itself(!!): new study of posts from Arabic-speaking social media users has uncovered that support for the brutal Islamic State terrorist organization is higher in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and the United States than it is in Iraq and Syria — the two countries partially controlled by the jihadist group. The Italian study analyzed over two million Twitter and Facebook posts related to Islamic State in Arabic in a three-and-a-half month period starting in July 2014. According to a report published Thursday by the Guardian, 19.7 percent of the analyzed posts originating from Iraq and 7.6% of posts from Syria were supportive of the Islamic State, compared to Belgium (31.0%), the United Kingdom (23.8%), the United States (21.4%) and France (20.8%). Germany (15.7%), Canada (15.3%) and Israel (13.4%) were also the source of a significant proportion of posts supportive of the terror group, which has carried out widespread ethic cleansing, suicide attacks, mass killings of prisoners, beheadings, torture, and other extremist violence. The Shin Bet estimates that some 30 Israelis have actually gone and joined the fighting in Syria since the eruption of the civil war in the country in March 2011. The vast majority of such recruits come from fundamentalist Salafi backgrounds and are affiliated with jihadist organizations such as the Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, both internationally recognized as terror groups. ...
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:06:31 +0000
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