As we recently reported at The BFD, the useless idiots of the Australian left are once again defying public opinion, by campaigning for the repatriation of “jihadi brides”. Australians have overwhelmingly made it clear that the refuse of the defeated caliphate is simply not wanted here. But the left-elite think they know better, in their infinite wisdom.
Britain has been so thoroughly cowed by the relentless creep of Islamic supremacism, cheer-led by the left-elite, that even an ostensibly conservative government is (secretly) preparing to ship home the murderous jihadis who ostentatiously rejected Britain and its values.
Britain is secretly preparing to repatriate jihadi brides and their children from Syria, according to correspondence seen by The Sunday Times […] Boris Johnson, the prime minister, and Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, backed plans to repatriate the children against the opposition of the Ministry of Defence, which did not want responsibility for getting them to Britain, and the Home Office, which fears it will have to keep jihadi brides under surveillance if they accompany their children.
theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/jihadi-brides-children-to-return-to-uk-under-secret-plan
Britain already has tens of thousands of jihadis on its books, so what’s a few more?
Quite a lot, probably.
An Australian counter-terrorism expert is warning that re-importing an army of jihadi-breeders will play right into the Islamic State’s hands.
Islamic State itself has a lot to say on where women and children fit into its plan for the next stage of terrorism, and how it plans to use liberal democratic systems against themselves. As Australia contemplates its next steps, we need to be fully aware of this.
Like other terrorist organisations, women play an important role in ISIS as recruiters and supporters, as well as occasionally being attackers […] But Islamic State has another special role for women, which is to be wives and mothers of fighters. Tareena Shakil, the first British woman jailed for joining ISIS, was found to have intentionally travelled to Syria to “produce the next generation of ISIS fighters”.
Right now, it is these families of the so-called caliphate, numbering in the tens of thousands, who are waiting in al-Hawl refugee camp to go on to the next stage of the fight. At least this is what the Islamic State leadership plans.
The Islamic State is playing the long game, planning to wear down Western resistance by sapping its resources and white-anting its institutions.
As the military offensive against Islamic State pushed the terrorist group into its last small enclave at Baghouz in Syria, the international community was amazed to see thousands of women and children emerge from the terrorist stronghold. Far from fleeing the terrorist group, this was the organised movement of Islamic State families out of the battlezone and into camps. Reports from al-Hawl confirm the community is run by ISIS women effectively as a continuation of the caliphate.
It was immediately after the battle of Baghouz that the late Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi chose to make his second video appearance. He reminded his followers to keep focused on the “long battle”, that territorial defeat was a temporary setback, and to take the cause on to new battlefields, enabled by the next generation.
This is the context in which we should weigh the jihadi brides’ “offer” to surrender themselves to voluntary surveillance in return for repatriation to the very society they so bloodily rejected.
While it might bamboozle the “compassion” brigade, this is a crocodile’s offer. The jihadi brides and their lawyers know perfectly well how control orders work: they cannot be voluntarily entered into, and are only limited to one year. The game plan is obvious: play nice for a year or so, challenge the surveillance order in court, and go right back to breeding and recruiting the next wave of murderous jihadis.
The “offer” will also sap resources: monitoring a returned jihadi costs tens of millions of dollars apiece, every year.
This drain on resources and capabilities is part of the terrorists’ plan. Islamic State propaganda calls openly for its supporters to undertake action to drain the resources of its enemies. This includes not only the vast amounts required to prevent and respond to attacks but also soaking up investigative resources through surveillance and monitoring. Last year, a RAND report found that between 2004 and 2016, EU states lost about €180bn because of terrorist attacks. Islamic State and others take advantage of the freedom and compassion of liberal democracies and stretch the resources of our countries and international organisations.
theaustralian.com.au/commentary/jihadi-families-going-home-just-part-of-the-isis-plan
The malign intent behind the jihadi brides’ “offer” is plain, for those with eyes to see. Far from abandoning their dream of a bloodthirsty Islamic caliphate, Islamic State has simply changed tactics, yet again. And, year by year, the Islamisation of the West proceeds.