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Italian daughter convinced her Italian Catholic family to join ISIS

  • 01-11-2015 9:53pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭


    This story is absolutely astonishing horrifying and terrifying:
    Police wiretaps of their Skype conversations revealed how the jihadi bride, who changed her name to Fatima after the Prophet's fourth daughter, laughed about her husband stoning an adulterer to death and told her sister that non-believers should be killed in their own land.
    Her family are originally from the town of Torre del Greco, near Naples. Around ten years ago, in grave economic difficulty, they moved to Inzago near Milan to take advantage of a generous church and a local charity who helped them, according to reports.
    Under duress from their extremely determined daughter, the family allegedly agreed to leave Italy for a new life in the Islamic State at the end of June.
    But Italian DIGOS anti-terror police, who had been monitoring 'hours and hours' of their Skype conversations, swooped in to arrest them in. They were accused of terror crimes, imprisoned and refused bail for fear they would abscond to Syria.
    This week, in a unexpected tragedy, Fatima's mother Assunta died while awaiting charges in prison.
    Before her death, Fatima berated Assunta and the rest of her family for still living among non-believers, who she called 'animals', and insisted they abandon their lives in Italy to 'make hijrah' [pilgrimage to the Islamic State] or she 'would never love them again'.
    The phone-taps revealed her anxious mother innocently asking if she would be able to grow a vegetable garden in the so-called Islamic State and whether she could bring the family cat along.
    But the female extremist ordered her father to 'drag mum here by her hair' because she had 'no right to any opinion' and owed 'total obedience' to her husband.
    She did not shy away from telling her family of the brutality of the regime and proudly boasted that her husband stoned an adulterer, according to the wire-taps.


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3264534/Revealed-Italy-s-Lady-Jihad-convinced-entire-white-Catholic-family-convert-join-ISIS-Syria-Fanatical-daughter-guaranteed-mother-terrorists-washing-machine-leave-pet-kitten-behind.html#ixzz3qHNOAxAZ
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    How is it possible for people to go from being thoroughly Western to adopting Islamic extremism and going so far as to journey to Syria to join Islamic State?

    There are numerous other stories of Westerners many of them educated who once drank, smoked dope, liked pop music, were educated, fun loving and apparently normal within the space of a few years not just converting to Islam but becoming a full blown raving religious lunatic and joining terrorist organisations.

    Recently the controversial author Michel Houellebecq wrote a satirical novel called Submission in which France becomes an Islamic state as secular French society gives in and adopts Islam.

    Could his comic novel actually be prophetic and that many more people will readily adopt Islam due to their disillusionment with Western society?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I don't know but it ****ed up beyond belief that someone can hate their own culture so much.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    She must have had some kind of Hitlerish mesmeric power over that family for them all to abandon all reason in that way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,763 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    There seriously needs to be sectors of the earth set aside for these idiots to reside.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    This story is absolutely astonishing horrifying and terrifying:



    How is it possible for people to go from being thoroughly Western to adopting Islamic extremism and going so far as to journey to Syria to join Islamic State?

    Seemingly they were going to just move there for free land?
    So there claiming....either way the mail is after helping expose a Canadian informer on isis
    How did they get this info??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Sociopath does what a sociopath does, regardless of what pretence they've latched on to today.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    There seriously needs to be sectors of the earth set aside for these idiots to reside.

    AFAIK this is what Isis is trying to do


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4 DrH Lecter


    Maybe they weren't that bright to start off with, getting on in age and losing it a bit, and put huge importance on their daughter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    biko wrote: »
    I don't know but it ****ed up beyond belief that someone can hate their own culture so much.

    It's not beyond belief, it is belief.
    IS believe themselves to be the purifiers of Islam and they are essentially a religious revivalist movement. Islamic scholars can argue the veracity of their claims with them but they believe they have the rights of it.

    The culture they grew up in isn't their culture. It's ours. Western liberal democratic culture is the work of the devil to them. They believe that. They will die and kill for their beliefs. We better realize that. Ireland voted to let gay people marry: they throw us off high roofs. IS culture isn't Irish culture.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭josephryan1989


    I once met a red bearded Dublin guy who seemed to have become a Muslim in a weird kind of Dances With Wolves transformation.
    He was hanging around with some shady Muslim guys at the GPO who were actively trying to convert people to Islam and he seemed like a complete loon. When I hear about Westerners who have gone full jihadi my blood runs cold thinking about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭nokia69


    biko wrote: »
    I don't know but it ****ed up beyond belief that someone can hate their own culture so much.

    most countries in the west have a large number of people who hate their own cultures, generally on the extreme left of the political spectrum

    but this case is different, here the cause is islam, which is also loved by many on the left


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭josephryan1989


    nokia69 wrote: »
    most countries in the west have a large number of people who hate their own cultures, generally on the extreme left of the political spectrum

    but this case is different, here the cause is islam, which is also loved by many on the left

    The mad thing is that typical ultra-left wingers are pro-gay, pro-women's rights, secular, anti-war and deeply secular but seem to shout down anyone who points out that the agenda of Al-Qaeda and ISIS and Hamas is murderously homophobic, misogynist, violent intolerant, anti-democratic and seeks to impose Sharia on unbelievers. When you try to debate these idiots they call you an "Islamophobe."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    biko wrote: »
    I don't know but it ****ed up beyond belief that someone can hate their own culture so much.

    Lot if it about. Loons, five-eighths of various kinds, disgruntled people with bullock's notions. Most of them wind up in Labour or Green parties, a handful go full spazbot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    They blow up so quickly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,666 ✭✭✭tritium


    biko wrote: »
    I don't know but it ****ed up beyond belief that someone can hate their own culture so much.

    Pretty common though, this just happens to be a pretty topical and visible manifestation of it. Think of the amount of extremist groups, fringe cults and indeed radical elements of established ideologies that have spent years harvesting people when they're young, impressionable and/ or desperate (college freshers, recent migrants, the homeless or addicted, .....).

    They may not always be as vocal in telling the world how much they hate their old life but believe me they do. Sadly it almost becomes a form of brainwashing where the person is essentially dead to those who knew them beforehand unless they agree to join them on the crazy train


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    The mad thing is that typical ultra-left wingers are pro-gay, pro-women's rights, secular, anti-war and deeply secular but seem to shout down anyone who points out that the agenda of Al-Qaeda and ISIS and Hamas is murderously homophobic, misogynist, violent intolerant, anti-democratic and seeks to impose Sharia on unbelievers. When you try to debate these idiots they call you an "Islamophobe."

    Oh be nice!











    (maybe they saw the beards and assumed that IS were hipsters too).

    Glazers Out!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭nokia69


    I once met a red bearded Dublin guy who seemed to have become a Muslim in a weird kind of Dances With Wolves transformation.
    He was hanging around with some shady Muslim guys at the GPO who were actively trying to convert people to Islam and he seemed like a complete loon. When I hear about Westerners who have gone full jihadi my blood runs cold thinking about it.

    I stopped to talk to those lads at the GPO one day a while ago around the time ISIS really started to get going

    they never actually said they supported ISIS or any other similar group, but they were happy to say that they had no problem with killing gays, slavery, jihad, stoning women ect its was all OK provided it followed the rules in the koran, crazy people, one of them was a Dr working in Limerick, the other was a Polish convert

    haven't seen them in a while would be no surprise if some of them joined ISIS


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭josephryan1989


    Are people like this comparable with misfits in the past who would have become fascists or communists?

    The American writer John Reed and other American Communists flocked to Russia following the Soviet revolution and never came home. Many of them ended up wasting away in Stalin's gulags. Lee Harvey Oswald was an ex-Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned to the US and shot JFK.

    One of the aristocratic Mitford sisters became obsessed with Hitler and shot herself and some intellectual poets like T.S. Elliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound were supporters of right wing fascism. Pound ended up in prison after the war.

    Cherie Blair's sister apparently converted to Islam.

    When you look at the ranks of Irish republicans who find people who switched from lives of British privilege like Countess Markievicz, Roger Casement, Erskine Childers and Lady Lavery to becoming rebels. During the Troubles Rose Dugdale went from British high society to dropping bombs on RUC stations from a helicopter.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭strelok


    Are people like this comparable with misfits in the past who would have become fascists or communists?

    The American writer John Reed and other American Communists flocked to Russia following the Soviet revolution and never came home. Many of them ended up wasting away in Stalin's gulags. Lee Harvey Oswald was an ex-Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned to the US and shot JFK.

    One of the aristocratic Mitford sisters became obsessed with Hitler and shot herself and some intellectual poets like T.S. Elliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound were supporters of right wing fascism. Pound ended up in prison after the war.

    Cherie Blair's sister apparently converted to Islam.

    sure what about all those west brits poncing about in their arsenal jerseys, watching britains got talent and going on and on about making irish compulsory in schools


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭Hemerodrome


    The poor mother was so innocent as to be asking about a vegetable garden and if she could bring the cat and appears to have been trying to please her daughter but not been planning any acts of terror, but has now died in prison. That is horrible and I feel so sorry for her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,695 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I opened this thread to read it, then seen the dailymail link, and didn't bother.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭JackHeuston


    Italian here, that news story is from a while back, but every time it comes up it gives me chills.

    The thing is... if I think a bit more about it it's not surprising at all at the end. I've met my fair share of girls with those kind of beliefs and ideas. Maybe not the exact same ones, but as much extremist as those ones of the girl in the news story.

    What's really heartbreaking is that her parents were probably manipulated by her into that sort of s***e. They already had issues and their world was their daughter. Knowing that the mother even asked if she could have made a little vegetable garden there, means that she was trusting her daughter that living there would have been just like home...

    This girl made the news because in a way or another, maybe looking for something new, maybe looking for being above everyone else in her community, she crossed those IS recruiters. But there are so many girls out there being as much psycho, manipulative and extremist as she was. I hope this is not sounding too bad but really, just living there in some small or troubled communities you'll see all these signals from certain people, who are just looking for something better.

    The Police did a great job, they are not new into preventing these sort of things way before them to actually happen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭josephryan1989


    The poor mother was so innocent as to be asking about a vegetable garden and if she could bring the cat and appears to have been trying to please her daughter but not been planning any acts of terror, but has now died in prison. That is horrible and I feel so sorry for her.

    I don't.

    She would have been able to inform herself about the nature of ISIS and Islamic State and she would have to be living under a rock if she didn't know about Islamic fundamentalism generally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭twowheelsonly


    I stumbled across a documentary recently called "My Son The Jihadi" about an English family. A pretty bog-standard English middle class mother and her two sons, one of whom went off to Africa to team up with Islamic extremists. It seemed to have been recorded over a couple of years as they tried everything to get him back. In the end he was killed while carrying out an ambush.

    It was fascinating, horrific, scary and sad all at the same time. Essential watching if anyone has an hour to spare.

    http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-son-the-jihadi/on-demand/60654-001


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭TommyRiordan


    biko wrote: »
    I don't know but it ****ed up beyond belief that someone can hate their own culture so much.

    LOL


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭Cuban Pete


    The mad thing is that typical ultra-left wingers are pro-gay, pro-women's rights, secular, anti-war and deeply secular but seem to shout down anyone who points out that the agenda of Al-Qaeda and ISIS and Hamas is murderously homophobic, misogynist, violent intolerant, anti-democratic and seeks to impose Sharia on unbelievers. When you try to debate these idiots they call you an "Islamophobe."

    Yeah I'm sure that's a thing that's actually real and not at all made up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,236 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    There seriously needs to be sectors of the earth set aside for these idiots to reside.


    A bit of Lebensraum, as it were?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,926 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Girl I know in the southeast started dating a African Muslim in 2014 and has since converted to Islam. She had a lot of problems growing up. Father left her mother when she was a child, devout Roman Catholic family that she never fit in with.

    She started wearing a burka posting up IS/Al Queda propaganda videos on Facebook it was at that point I blocked her.

    She was bisexual in her late teens and supported the introduction of civil partnerships 2009/10. I heard before the Gay Marriage Referendum earlier this year she was handing out leaflets against this claiming homosexuality is linked to paedophilia.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,763 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    A bit of Lebensraum, as it were?

    Well if a sector was setup that such people can move to and the rest of the earth didn't trade or allow any movement to it after a certain date that would be progress. They can have their own rules and punishment in their "zone" and nobody outside needs to give a flying fook what happens within as those within decided to go there and would not be a loss to humanity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    one has only to look at many " causes" , some not too far from home, to see that there are always a cadre of people that will fall for the party line hook line and sinker. its where we get the term " nothing like the zeal of the converted " etc.

    many terrible attricites have been carried out in the name of one " cause " or the other . ISIS is no different in that regard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Hateful witch of a daughter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 KieraAdamson


    Candie wrote: »
    She must have had some kind of Hitlerish mesmeric power over that family for them all to abandon all reason in that way.

    She is a big PSYCHO! How could she influence and threaten her own family like that????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭conorhal


    I once met a red bearded Dublin guy who seemed to have become a Muslim in a weird kind of Dances With Wolves transformation.
    He was hanging around with some shady Muslim guys at the GPO who were actively trying to convert people to Islam and he seemed like a complete loon. When I hear about Westerners who have gone full jihadi my blood runs cold thinking about it.

    Converts are often the worst and most fanatical of adherents, they're typically damage individuals desperate for some kind of certianty and direction and a pretty absolutist form of Islam gives them that.

    Anybody watch 'My Son the Jihadi' on Channel 4? I'd reccomend it. It's terrifying how a nice, middle class, white schoolboy can go from shy kid to sombody that films themselves executing men women and children.

    To listen to his 13yr old 'bride' explain to his mother how she should be happy that he had died in the service of Allah was bizzare, and it was hearbreaking to listen to his mother tell her that sadly she rather presumed that he was burning in hell for what he had done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭Liamario


    There seriously needs to be sectors of the earth set aside for these idiots to reside.

    That's all well and good until they reproduce and some innocent baby becomes a victim of their stupidity.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    They must be a bit simple


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    They blow up so quickly.

    I'd be banned for less , surprised this thread hasn't been closed with boards ultra ultra left views (ie sympathetic of jihad)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    I hate to bring Hitler into all these discussions but people in Germany were normal before he came to power and then the majority of them would have followed the lunatic to death for a time! Propaganda is a powerful thing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭allibastor


    Pity you don't get as aggressive recruitment drives for the western culture.
    Maybe its because if we say anything against any other culture we are immediately called racists and told to be quiet.


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    allibastor wrote: »
    Pity you don't get as aggressive recruitment drives for the western culture.
    Maybe its because if we say anything against any other culture we are immediately called racists and told to be quiet.

    Yeah there's only millions coming west while a couple of thousand go east...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,516 ✭✭✭zeffabelli


    People can't resist a good fight. Same appeal as fascism.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,862 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    There seriously needs to be sectors of the earth set aside for these idiots to reside.

    Yep.

    Northpole would be fine. Good luck with the ramadan during 6 months of daylight


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    allibastor wrote: »
    Pity you don't get as aggressive recruitment drives for the western culture.
    Maybe its because if we say anything against any other culture we are immediately called racists and told to be quiet.

    Or when they do decide to come here because of how great it is people complain. You can't have it both ways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    wakka12 wrote: »
    I hate to bring Hitler into all these discussions but people in Germany were normal before he came to power and then the majority of them would have followed the lunatic to death for a time! Propaganda is a powerful thing

    well no germany had come through a period of enormous upheaval, with massive financial turmoil and could with a struggle with radical Bolshevism. Hilter merely presented himself as having solutions ( which he did ) and a " grateful : electorate looked no further

    in that regard ISIL is not dissimilar, it exists because of the chaos and disruption that has gone on and they are a product of the Sunni Shia divide, irag acts as a protector ( of sorts ) for the Shias, driving the Sunni population into the hands of ISIL

    ISIL isn't comprised of lunatics, it a reaction to a situation , that otherwise would not get anything other then fringe support


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    The two main problems with Islam which set it apart from the other big religions are:

    1. Islam claims to be the last and final revelation of God. This may not sound like much but you can see its effect in a certain predisposition to fevor and a lack of compromise in some sections of the Muslim world. A claim to finality is always dangerous.

    2. The punishment for apostasy (leaving Islam) is, to this day, death. No further discussion required.


    I'm not saying the claims of Islam are any more ridiculous than those of any other religion but it's the kind of stuff above that sets it on more of a collision course with reason and modernity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    So how many Muslim people have given up their culture to join Western culture? Many more....but Western is always good ain't it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    traprunner wrote: »
    So how many Muslim people have given up their culture to join Western culture? Many more....but Western is always good ain't it?
    Yes, It's certainly better than fundamentalist Islam.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭allibastor


    Or when they do decide to come here because of how great it is people complain. You can't have it both ways.

    Many are not deciding to come here by choice.

    But if they do, they should adapt and integrate. Not keep preaching and converting and shouting that your racist if you dont like it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    A bit rich of her to tell her mother she had no entitlement to any opinion. She seemes to be well endowed with opinions herself.
    I believe rhe solution for these silly females who embrace Isis is to let them off to Isisland and don't let them come back. . As my grandmother used to say, love is blind and marriage is an eye-opener.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    The poor mother was so innocent as to be asking about a vegetable garden and if she could bring the cat and appears to have been trying to please her daughter but not been planning any acts of terror, but has now died in prison. That is horrible and I feel so sorry for her.

    Exactly what I was thinking. Heartbreaking. That little **** of a daughter


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