15-20 persons who are or have been linked to Oslo Mosque Rabita youth, sympathize with violent Islamists, says the head of the youth department at the mosque.
– Those who have such extreme opinions have managed to accumulate and become an environment, says the head of Rabita Young, Hossam Belkilani (19) Today’s Business.
He believes young people looking for something big draws them towards jihadists in ISIL.
– When they heard that ISIL has established the caliphate, they feel that there is something big that they must support. We encourage all of the time people not to go down to fight. But to understand why they go when the world community did not do anything about the situation in Syria, says Belkilani.
Sources in the security services in the United States and Iraq estimates that ISIL had about 3,000 fighters when the fierce offensive against Iraq began in June. The number has now risen versus the 20,000 when new recruits are counted.
Rabita Young has around 200 members and has various courses and dialogue groups and study groups where they discuss Islam.
– None that I have spoken to support that happening terrorist attacks in Norway, emphasizing youth leader faced DN.
man who carried out a suicide attack outside Baghdad on June 2 used to visit Rabita Mosque in the years he lived in Norway. The Board confirmed Basim Ghozlan in Rabita facing Today’s Market Saturday.
According terrorism researcher Thomas Hegghammer this man is the first confirmed Norwegian suicide bomber. Police Security Service will not say anything about the case.
(NTB)
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