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Europe’s Prisons Becoming ‘Breeding Ground’ For Jihadists

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Prisons in Europe are becoming “breeding grounds” for jihadist groups, with some criminals seeing violent extremism as a form of redemption for their crimes, a report by a British think tank published Tuesday said.

Jihadist and criminal groups are recruiting from the same pool of people, while their social networks are also converging, the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR) found, in what it dubbed a “new crime-terror nexus”.

The emergence of the Islamic State group (IS) has strengthened the link between crime and terrorism, according to the report which examined the profiles of European jihadists recruited since 2011.Rather than looking to universities or religious establishments, IS increasingly turns to “ghettos”, prisons and “underclasses” to recruit individuals with a history of criminal behaviour, it said.

Prisons provide a ready supply of “angry young men” who are “ripe” for radicalisation, according to the study, entitled “Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus”.

ICSR director Peter Neumann, one of the report’s authors, said the lines between crime and jihadist groups were becoming “increasingly blurred”.

“Prison is becoming important as a place where a lot of networking happens,” he said.

“Given the recent surge in terrorism-related arrests and convictions… we are convinced that prisons will become more –- rather than less –- significant as breeding grounds for the jihadist movement.”

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ISIS Eyes Rome!!!

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ISIS has its sights set on Rome. The fanatical jihadists have published an image of their black flag with white Arab lettering flying above the Vatican on the cover of their English-language magazine Dabiq.

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The cover story, “The Failed Crusade,” envisions the ancient Italian city under the rule of a Caliph and a hardline Sharia regime, according to the Jerusalem Post. The article in the online propaganda magazine calls on aspiring jihadists to target the Catholic Church and followers of the Christian faith. The Islamic State claims it will one day conquer Rome, threatening to “break [the] crosses” of infidels and sell and trade their women.

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Pope Francis has called for international action to stop the group and backed the US-led coalition that has been striking ISIS targets.

“It is lawful to kidnap the women of the infidels and use them as sex slaves,” the Dabiq piece said. Dabiq, named after a town in Syria where in 1516 the Ottomans defeated the Mamluks, establishing the last Islamic caliphate, also called on Muslims to kill “every Crusader possible,” according to a report in the Daily Mail.

Bosnian imam Bilal Bosnic, Italy’s most notorious jihadi recruiter, who admitted conscripting European Muslim converts to fight with ISIS, said extremist militants will bring Islam to the heart of Christendom, according to the Daily Mail.

“In time, the whole world will be an Islamic state,” he said. “Our goal is to make sure that even the Vatican will be Muslim.”