martes, 21 de enero de 2014

Why are disaffected French youth exchanging France for Syria? The reductio ad absurdum of May 1968.




by Theodore Dalrymple


What would induce the citizens of a prosperous and peaceful country to leave for an increasingly impoverished and violent living hell? Why would anyone exchange France for Syria.

The French Ministry of the Interior is concerned that the number of French citizens going to Syria to participate in jihad has increased recently, and it fears what they might do when they return home. 

So far, 18 French jihadis have been killed in Syria, 70 have returned, and 220 (four times as any as in May 2013) are thought to be on the ground there. 

Another 200 to 300 might be preparing to go. 

About 80 percent are of North African descent, usually young men who ignored the precepts of their ancestral religion and indulged in debauchery until they were “born again” into a life of puritanical fanaticism. 

The other 20 percent are French converts.


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