Jewish teen among dozens of French girls joining jihad in Syria

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Some 100 girls and young women from France alone have left to join jihad in Syria, up from just a handful 18 months ago. 

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Source/Credit: Haaretz
By AP / Lori Hinnant | October 10, 2014

A French Jewish teenager is among the approximately one hundred girls and young women who have left France to join jihad in Syria during the past 18 months.

According to a security official who spoke anonymously because rules forbid him to discuss open investigations, these girls come from all walks of life. They include first- and second-generation immigrants from Muslim countries, white French backgrounds - and one Jew. 


These departures are less the whims of adolescents and more the highly organized conclusions of months of legwork by networks that specifically target young people in search of an identity, according to families, lawyers and security officials. These mostly online networks recruit girls to serve as wives, babysitters and housekeepers for jihadis, with the aim of planting multi-generational roots for an Islamic caliphate. [ more ... ]



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