The Islamic State recruits new fighters in South Africa – Onet.pl

 
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  the Islamic State recruits new fighters in South Africa
 
 
 

– South Africa has a solid banking system , a large Muslim community, people are awake politically and religiously committed, and also have a good reputation abroad and not arousing suspicion passports – says Alawi.

– Some information speak about a hundred citizens of South Africa in the ranks of the IS, but the number of persons remaining in South Africa in contact with jihadists is much higher – Iraqi ambassador added.

In July last. Allawi was first informed their country about two volunteers from South Africa, who were killed in Iraq fighting in the ranks of the jihadists.

Another expert, Professor Hussein Solomon , a researcher at the University of fundamentalist movements Free State in Johannesburg recalls that Hamas and Al-Qaeda for many years working in South Africa, and Hezbollah had its training camps here. His biggest concern is the possibility of the establishment of the IS in South Africa “sleeper cells” ready to act on the orders from the outside.

However, despite the fact that in South Africa there are many possible targets such as luxury department stores, the company representing the interests of American capital, the largest Jewish colony in Africa, and also despite the fact that the local internal security forces are corrupt and the boundaries” przemakalne “Africa has not was far IS the purpose of any attack.

(JS)