“Islam Recruits our Children and Europe Just Watches”

The following article from today’s Il Giornale is about an 18-year-old Belgian named Jojoen Bontinck, one of hundreds of European converts who have been recruited in European mosques to fight in the NATO-funded Syrian jihad against the Assad regime.

Many thanks to Gaia for the translation:

“Islam recruits our children and Europe just watches”
by Gian Micalessin

Dimitri Bontinck, the Belgian father who seeks his son in Syria: “My Jojoen. Lured into a mosque and ensnared by fanatics. The recruiters still go unpunished

“I feel very close to the parents of Giuliano [the young Italian convert killed in Syria], His story is reminiscent of Jojoen. My son fell into it because of the Islamic fanatics who have indoctrinated him and a government that does nothing to stop them.

“The boys catechized and sent to die in Syria number in the hundreds. During two trips in search of Jojoen I met guys from all over the world. But governments, instead of blocking those who recruit and brainwash them, condemn their victims — our children.”

Dimitri Bontinck, 38 years old, was formerly in the Belgian military. Last May, he left Antwerp to try to find Jojoen, his 18 year-old-son who disappeared into the mists of the Syrian conflict. The story of Jojoen is very similar to that of Giuliano Delnevo, the Genoese convert who died at 24 years old fighting against the Syrian government.

“His father called him a hero, but unfortunately his son and mine — Dimitri explains in this interview with Il Giornale — are just deluded. They are the victims of those who exploit their youthful enthusiasm.”

With Jojoen how was it?

“At the age of 15, he met a Moroccan Muslim girl who passes him some joints and brings him to a mosque. Normal teenage things, but at the mosque Jojoen meets a group of fanatics. Since that time we have seen him change before our eyes. Instead of studying, he spends time praying, stops listening and forgets all his education, the Catholic college, travel in America, in Italy and the teachings of his mother, a very religious Nigerian Christian.”

How did he get to Syria?

“By tricking me. He tells me he wants to study Islam and Arabic in Egypt and I cough up the stupid money. In March I heard of a guy who went to fight in Syria, and a light bulb goes on. So I search the internet for all the photos of foreigners fighting with Syrian rebels until I find him.”

So what now?

“I have been to and from Syria twice. I have received assistance there from Time4Life, an Italian group that distributes medicines in areas held by rebels. With their assistance I arrive very close to finding Jojoen, but when I ask to see him, those fanatics stop me, beat me up and point a Kalashnikov at my head, accusing me of being a spy. When I finally convinced them they tell me they will never let me meet him in case the emotion of the meeting might make him turn his head.”

And you?

“I went on a rampage. I told him to show me the Koran and tell me where is it written that you can take a child from his parents in the name of jihad. But they couldn’t have cared less and they kicked me out. They just want to keep these kids isolated for use as best suits them.”

Are you afraid that this is the end of Jojoen?

“Of course Yesterday another Belgian guy died. It is the fifth or the sixth in a few months. The father is a white Catholic like me. Now he is destroyed. His son died and he does not even know how and where. In Syria there are at least 300 children from Belgium. Most are Muslims and children of immigrants, but Christian converts are not few. I wonder how many will have to die before governments will decide to stop the radical fanatics who recruit them. “

According to you there is a precise direction?

“Of course. They use mosques to convert them, recruit them and send them to fight. And a well-structured international network financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia. “

And how will you be able to stop it?

“I have founded an association with five other Christian families and two Islamic ones. The Muslims are getting behind us. Listen to this lady at my side.”

The phone … changes hands. The voice of Dimitri is replaced that of Samira, a young woman who speaks French.

“Dimitri is right, we Muslims are also victims of this madness. My daughter is 19 and has been missing for months. The police told me ‘Nothing we can do’. My daughter is fighting in Syria.”

25 thoughts on ““Islam Recruits our Children and Europe Just Watches”

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  2. The Americans, British and EU have no intention of stopping it….Indeed they want it to happen. Cameron and his pals are hypocrites and traitors. There will be a reckoning some day… a trial perhaps? never did I imagine I would live to see the world go mad and even as a supposed ‘man of God’ I cannot find it in my heart to forgive these excuses for leaders. They have destroyed us all….Christians. secularists, Moslems, Hindus…I never thought I would live to see the US and a NATO in which I once proudly served years ago sink so low and become the modern Warsaw Pact. Damn them to Hell……

    • “They have destroyed us all”… don’t give up Archdeacon, they may think they have destroyed us but they haven’t not by a long shot and remember Churchill

      “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”.

  3. If those parents had given their boys an identity, something to believe in, something to defend, something to fight for, then maybe there wouldn’t have been that vacuum which has been filled with islamic ideology.

    • by selfishly marrying a black nigerian woman with no thought of the travails of any offspring dimitri set the ground for his sons psychic abandonment.everything has consequences!

      • Do any of you who condemn this father have a good track record on steering a child from infancy through adolescence?

        It’s so easy to judge a grieving father.

        As for the comment about him marrying a Nigerian…what’s wrong with that? Maybe he couldn’t find a suitable mate and was looking for a woman with a strong religious sense. Maybe those qualities trumped her race??

        This father can’t win for losing…gives his son a religious upbringing, stays married to the boy’s mother, provides for his education, obviously cares deeply about his son, and he doesn’t meet your standards??

        This has happened over and over again to parents who care about their kids.

        How dare you!

        • “He tells me he wants to study Islam and Arabic in Egypt and I cough up the stupid money.”

          I dare to say that the father was stupid – rather than his money.

          I dare to say that the father was part of the problem by failing to learn enough about Islam to understand the necessity to say, “NO!” when his son asked him for money to study Islam in Egypt which is the heart of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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  9. gives his son a religious upbringing, stays married to the boy’s mother, provides for his education, obviously cares deeply about his son, and he doesn’t meet your standards??…and you know all this how? he drunk the love the third world cool-aid years ago and the kicking he got from the fellow “wretched of the earth” in jihadland never caused him to startle from his kumbaya rverie
    Boo hoo my poor boy nothing to do me
    How dare he!

    • gives his son a religious upbringing, stays married to the boy’s mother, provides for his education, obviously cares deeply about his son, and he doesn’t meet your standards??…and you know all this how?

      I learned these facts, some of which can be inferred by his actions, thru reading the interview. In addition to all that he actually goes to Syria to try to find his son. Twice. In fact, he almost gets to him, but those in charge are smart: they know the risk of letting the son and father meet – they’ll lose a recruit.

      This is a dedicated father who is banding together with other fathers whose children have been recruited. Were they guilty of not being vigilant *enough*? Yes. But that is happening to parents all over the world. Catch a boy at his most vulnerable time, when he is going thru the normal developmental process of securing his masculine identity, and you might ensnare him.

      Easy to grab the kids who have been thrown away, but the ones like this son take an average of 25 “groomers” or handlers until the brainwashing is complete. Or complete enough to get him into this coming generation thinks is their version of “Adventures in the French Foreign Legion”.

      Aside from his marriage to a Nigerian Christian – which is beyond the pale by your standards- what other evidence do you have for your summary dismissal of his grief, or your claim he “he drunk the love the third world cool-aid years ago”??

      Trying to find a Belgian Catholic woman, esp. if you are serving in the military (as he did), can be close to impossible. European Christians are an endangered species. And soldiers have been marrying in the countries they serve simply because that’s where they *are*…as WWII proved with the many “war brides” who moved to the US.

      In the 60s many parents lost kids to drugs and cults. This is a more lethal version of that phenomenon because the kids come home in body bags.

      So you’re a parent who successfully raised children to adulthood with no tragedies along the way? Lucky you.

  10. ‘They are the victims of those who exploit their youthful enthusiasm.’ Excuse me but I am glad a hardened, fanatic is not coming back to Europe to blow up a bus, a metro or rape a young girl. And yes I am raising a teenage daughter, in fact she is still 12. Facts speak louder than words and I am afraid the comment by liamj is right, race does play a role in this mess, made him more approachable by the Islamic supremacists and possibly made him wondered who he really was. You know at this age they ‘have a cow’ if they don´t wear the proper sneakers as they mates do. Sorry for his parents anyway.

    • Maybe race plays a role, maybe not. Since I have many mixed-race relatives, I don’t share your view. I guess it depends on what the child encounters in his/her extended family. This emphasis on race as a cause is simply the other side of the coin of black folks who angrily cut off their kids for the sin of “dating white”.

      If his father could get him back, he wouldn’t be returning to blow stuff up. Surely you understand family dynamics better than that??

      Your daughter is only twelve. And she’s a girl, so you have a different hormonal brew to contend with. But I’ll guarantee you, the experience of raising an adolescent hasn’t really begun yet. As one famous parent ( a devoted mother of two girls ) said, teenagers are psychotic.

      Her shrewd observation has been backed up by research into the process of brain development from infancy to age 25. That’s when the brain *finally* matures fully. Car insurance actuaries know this all too well; that’s why insurance rates are high until age 25.

      It takes only the smallest mistake and they slip through your fingers. A girl with her boyfriend on the way home from her senior prom stops to buy a soft drink. It is only five minutes from her house and in the excitement of a wonderful evening, she neglects to put back on her seatbelt. On that dark, rainy night the inexperience of the driver causes their car to leave the road on a curve. No speeding, no alcohol or drugs. She dies, he -still in seatbelt- lives.

      She was beautiful, talented, beloved by her family and friends. But she was careless and died at 18. I can repeat that for many other children who didn’t make it.

      Or the families who discover their “normal” child foundering on the rocks of a bi-polar illness that had lain dormant until age 22. Again, no drugs or alcohol, but their daughter is wandering the school grounds, naked and disoriented, at 2:00 a.m.

      Life is so full of tragedy – i.e., horrific losses we are helpless to change or to fix – without having to project blame and judgment on others when it strikes them. Blaming them won’t save you from your own possible future.

  11. The issue isn’t so much that the son is of mixed race but that a mixed race child may be likely to be a lost child and easy pickings for being a useful fool for the biggest cult going around

    Probably as much to do with intelligence and culture as race but in case you haven’t noticed there is often a close relationship between these variables

  12. As a father I understand his efforts to rescue his ‘kid’ even putting his life at risk, but I also know that memory tends to be indulgent and the lovely kid he remembers might well be a monster right now. I’m sure the devil was a cute baby… Again I am sorry for this brave father but his son is probably fighting with al-qaeda.

    • I disagree.

      My daughter is dead, the ‘victim’ of a severe mental illness that she fought for years. I remember her sweetness as a child, and I can recall her wit and sparkle as she grew up. But she was a horror while she was in the grip of her demons…funny, she considered trying to find an exorcist because of the loss of control she experienced.

      I haven’t forgotten any of it, and I doubt this father has either. I worked as hard as he did to ‘save’ my kid from herself but the severity was beyond any parent’s skills. However, while we have breath we continue trying – and we don’t paint a rosy picture of an awful reality, past or present.

      This blog only exists because after my daughter’s death, when there was finally nothing more we could do, the Baron suggested that we start writing so that I could use my empty hands..he has always been a kind man.

      I have walked this father’s path. That he is forming a group with other fathers will be a force for good arising directly from these families’ tragedies. I will continue to applaud their efforts.

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