Imam warns of terrorist attack Amsterdam – Elsevier

Within a half year Amsterdam will be hit by a terrorist attack, predicts youth imam Yassin Elforkani. “The terrorist networks are ready. It’s just hard act now, “stressed the former spokesman of the Contact Committee Muslims and Government (CMO)

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Jihadism incomparable with other terror

If the terrorist networks can not be quickly rolled in Amsterdam, the capital is the next after Brussels and Paris, thinks Elforkani. In an interview with Het Parool he calls upon by the House on reforms before it is too late.

Many people in the neighborhoods know of the terrorist networks, but choose to keep their mouths shut and protect these young people, “says the young imam. Groups of radical Muslims who have founded four years ago, should be addressed

Theology

“There is a verse that says. Creating chaos is sometimes worse than killing. These young people see that as an incentive. If you accept the ideology, you trade it. “Elforkani thinks returned Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War to be secured put preventative. He also advocated a humane polder Islam, which believers not stop thinking of themselves.

Since 2012, there are approximately four thousand jihadists from the European Union to Syria and Iraq left to fight for Islamic State. Of them, 30 per cent returned to Europe. This is contained in a report by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, which was presented Friday.

Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War

In the Netherlands play police officers a key role in preventing, in anyway identifying radicalization time. Read more & gt;

jhadisten are getting younger: the majority of the current generation of Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War is between eighteen and twenty years. They also radicalized – some had only needed month to surrender to the jihad

The radicalization process at 90 percent of the cases take place in urban areas in Europe.. The radical Muslims often come from the same neighborhoods, which indicates that they are already operating in Europe extremist networks, where Elforkani warns.

As an example, Amsterdam is not mentioned in the report, but The Hague, Delft, Zoetermeer and Arnhem, the researchers are examples of Dutch cities with dangerous suburbs. In Belgium called Antwerp and Brussels.

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