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-- الأربعاء 14 شعبان 1433هـ - 04 يوليو 2012م Number of young German Muslims turning into jihadis on the rise: report The cases of young Muslim German men becoming combatants are still rare, but increasing in number. (File photo) Al Arabiya A growing number of young Muslim German men are traveling to conflict zones to become jihadi fighters, Germany's Deutche Welle news agency (DW) reported on Monday. The cases of young men becoming combatants are still rare, but increasing in number. According to German security services since the beginning of the 1990s, around 235 "people with German connections and Islamic terrorist backgrounds" have at least attempted to acquire paramilitary training, DW reported. There is tangible evidence that around 100 men were actually trained or engaged in military operations. Over half of those are said to be back in Germany, and around 10 have been imprisoned. Intelligence services are taking the matter very seriously. "Should they return [to Germany], these people could be involved in activity which poses a threat to national security," a spokesperson for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution was quoted by DW as saying. Members of the so-called Sauerland Group attended a training camp in Pakistan before they were arrested during preparations for attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany. "Another risk factor is that these people have big reputations in the Islamist scene," said the spokesperson. "That can lead to the further radicalization of Islamists who until now weren't necessarily prepared to engage in violent conflict." DW uses Moroccan brothers Mounir and Yassin C as an example of the influence of boasting. The two brothers from Bonn often appear in German language propaganda videos from Waziristan. In a recent video, Yassin calls for the killing of journalists and activists from the far-right Pro NRW party. To many viewers the videos can seem absurd and overly dramatic, but they do serve their function: Arid U., the Kosovar who shot dead two American soldiers and injured two others at Franfurt airport in April 2011, was reportedly radicalized over the internet of the course of a very short period. He is said to have been listening to a battle song by Mounir on his way to commit the attack. "Al-Qaeda and their auxiliaries have created a whole genre of propaganda films," said Asiem El Difraoui, author of a study on the role of online propaganda for the Economic and Political Foundation of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. The propaganda films portray a romanticized view of life in the training camps, the suffering of Muslim civilians is depicted in grisly detail and martyrdom is glorified. "Norwegian researchers have investigated the profiles of hundreds of jihadi sympathizers and determined that every one of them spent large periods of time on the Internet and were heavily influenced by these films," said El Difraoui. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution highlighted the importance of "networks or loose associations forming from radicalized members of second-or third-generation immigrants and radicalized converts." Furthermore, security services say these networks are regionally distinctive and not centrally led. But the methods used to recruit fighters are not consistent. "We have teenagers who go from zero to 100, who discover icons of the radical scene for themselves, who are enticed by the cult of masculinity and violence," said Claudia Dantschke, a family advisor at the Center for Democratic Culture in Berlin. On the other hand there are the Salafis who go out and act like social workers on the streets of Germany cities, in order to attract young Muslims with dim future prospects to their strict interpretation of Islam. This is usually a longer process. To stop "jihadi tourism," Germany has made being present in a terrorist training camp a criminal offense since 2009. But repression alone won't solve the problem, believes author Wolf Schmidt. "You must to be one step ahead, and you need a clever form of prevention." That's what the Center for Democratic Culture in Berlin is working on. Parents regularly come to Dantschke and her colleagues, concerned about the radicalization of their children, often early on. "You then have to look at what these radical groups provide for young people," said Dantschke. "There is always a form of alienation, the feeling of not being understood, feeling shut-out, and the search for orientation and recognition," she added. The advisory sessions are always diverse; most include Muslim authorities and sometimes clients are advised to attend family therapy. The primary objective for the German jihadis is Waziristan, a troubled region in Pakistan. But intelligence services are trying to figure out if many of these jihadists are now relocating in the direction of Somalia where the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab militants is waging war against the fragile government. Schmidt, who is the author of the book, "Young, German, Taliban" said "many of these young men intended to go to Chechnya but ended up in Pakistan. "They don't know the war zone, have relatively little idea about the conflict, and often have shockingly little knowledge of the religion which they claim to defend," Schmidt said. جميع الحقوق محفوظة لقناة العربية © 2010 ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
