Reflectii

In April 2018, we warned that President Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from Syria would be a repetition of President Obama’s worst mistake, the precipitate withdrawal from Iraq that facilitated the capture of Mosul by the Islamic State (ISIS).

We perceived that the immediate consequence of abandoning Syria would be a Turkish-led campaign to annihilate America’s Syrian Kurdish allies, who heroically bore the brunt of defeating the ISIS in Syria and capturing its capital, Raqqa.

It is a strange time to be a citizen in a Western democracy. Our society is based on exchange — we transact in the free market, we share ideas online, and most significantly we give up some of our natural liberty in exchange for a civil society and a vote.

But increasingly, the freedoms supposed to be protected by civil society are being eroded away. At the level of the individual, our freedom of speech is under attack. Criticism of migration is apparently about to become “hate speech” and a prosecutable offence.

Approximately 850 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, say the British authorities.

On August 4, 2018, a group of Albanian jihadis fighting in Syria alongside rebel factions released a 33-minute, slickly produced video about their small sniper unit. The video, filmed in documentary style, was distributed on the Albanian fighters’ Telegram channel.[1] The video is entirely in Albanian with English subtitles.

This video confirms previous reports that a small group of Albanian fighters is currently engaged in the Syrian conflict alongside other jihadi factions.[2] To conceal their identities, all the fighters in the video are shown masked or with blurred faces. Beyond the demonstration of the military capability of these Albanian fighters, the video is meant to serve as a recruitment tool, to persuade more Muslims, and particularly Albanians, to mobilize and join their jihad. The growing military pressure on rebel factions in the only remaining area under their control may explain why outreach is underway, particularly in those units comprised of foreign fighters, in an effort to garner support and potentially recruit more fighters in anticipation of the impending battle in which the regime will attempt to regain total sovereignty.

Today, 510 million Europeans live in the European Union with 1.3 billion Africans facing them. If the Africans follow the example of other parts of the developing world, such as the Mexicans in the US, “in thirty years… Europe will have between 150 and 200 million Afro-Europeans, compared with 9 million today”. Smith calls this scenario “Eurafrique”.

The controversial quota system for migrants has already failed. The European Court of Human Rights condemned Hungary for detaining migrants. European governments cannot stop, deport, arrest or repatriate the migrants. What do the authorities in Brussels suggest? Bring everyone to Europe?

French Jews have fallen victim to a form of ethnic cleansing, according to a manifesto signed by, among others, former French President Nicholas Sarkozy and former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

Recommendations

• Put an emphasis on reintegration instead of criminalization;
• Tailor responses to the returnees based on their motivations to join IS, motivations
to return and gender/age dynamics;
• Engage local religious, family and school communities in the process of
reintegration;
• Address push factors such as poverty, inequality, and economic insecurity.

Executive summary

The Islamic State (IS) will remain a threat in 2018, experts say. Thousands of
foreign fighters are now coming back to their home countries following the collapse of
the so-called “caliphate”. From the around 900 people from the Western Balkans who
have travelled to Syria and Iraq between 2011 and 2016, 250 have already returned.

Despite the different reasons for doing so, returnees raise security concerns, to which
local governments should respond.

Il concetto di migrazione, che comprende la ricerca di asilo da motivi politici e non politici, è parte integrante della creazione dello sviluppo islamico e della concezione islamica dei diritti dell’uomo. Nel 621 d.C. il Profeta Muhammad (pace su di lui), decise di lasciare la sua città natale Mecca e cercò sicurezza in quella che sarebbe diventata la città di Medina , dove in una delle sue prime e nobili azioni riuscì a portare la pace ad una società travagliata da uno stato di divisione interna. Questo evento denominato “hijrah”, o migrazione, è venuto a simboleggiare il movimento dei musulmani dalle terre dell’oppressione a quelle della sicurezza e della pace. Inoltre, il trattamento ospitale ricevuto da Muhammad (pace su di lui) e dalla giovane comunità musulmana da parte del popolo di Medina incarna il concetto islamico di protezione dei rifugiati contenuto nel Corano, in cui la migrazione e il concetto di ricerca di protezione e sicurezza da persecuzioni – nella terminologia islamica “amaana” – è riconosciuto come un diritto umano individuale.

Il fenomeno della radicalizzazione all’interno delle comunità musulmane in Europa occupa comprensibilmente un ruolo centrale nella pubblica opinione. I recenti atti terroristici perpetrati da individui che pretendono di agire in nome dell’Islam hanno causato un acceso dibattito . Purtroppo le discussioni e i dibattiti attorno alla radicalizzazione sono stati in gran parte dominati da interessi di parte e di opportunità politica. È di fondamentale importanza arrivare ad una posizione ricca di sfumature su questo complesso fenomeno, con affermazioni teoriche che siano motivate empiricamente.

Il termine ‘radicalizzazione’ è generalmente un termine controverso. Può implicare diverse posizioni, tra cui una reazione all’ortodossia o rompere con idee politiche tradizionali, ecc. Tuttavia, nel contesto di questo dibattito postula la manifestazione di un pensiero e di un comportamento estremisti che raggiungono il culmine con la pianificazione e l’esecuzione di atti terroristici.

Montenegro is a source, transit and destination country for men, women and children subjected to sex trafficking, the U.S. State Department has stated.

Montenegrin officials are involved in human trafficking, the State Department’s 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report reads.

Trafficking victims are mostly women and girls from Eastern Europe and other Balkan countries, including Serbia and Kosovo, who migrate or are smuggled through the country en route to Western Europe and are subjected to sex trafficking in Montenegro, the State Department said in the report.

The Nigerian Medical Association in Imo State has accused billionaire and governor Rochas Okrocha of trafficking human organs.

He is accused of doing so “with officials of Turkey and Croatia, and with Hashim Thaci.”

Thaci is currently Kosovo’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister.