Well, it’s a shame America didn’t the let Russia deal with the radical Muslims causing trouble in Afghanistan back in the late 1970s. America never asked what the radical Muslims in the shape of the Mujahideen were doing in Afghanistan , they’d never even heard of them. But they believed Russia was their enemy and so they took the side of the Mujahideen including a very young Osama Bin Laden who 20years later. attacked America on 9/11. This is because history is not taught properly or understood by Americans. Even now most Americans have no knowledge of the Muslim massacres in the Middle East in the 1800 ‘s or the Muslim slaughter and the enslavement of black Africans when they invaded Northern Africa.

America should have sat back and let Russia kick the majhadeen out of Afghanistan in 1979, so now they reap the fallout from their ignorance of history.
I trust Putins understanding of the Middle East and Syria more than the Americans, because he knows the history of the area. Americans and Western countries have no idea.
Also it was stated in this article, that Isis has regained recruits from disgruntled rebels in Syria. Well of course! After all Isis and the rebels are all Sunni Muslims.
Blood is thicker than water in times of war and conquest.
America was going to go in on the side of the Sunni rebels, but Russia stopped them by supporting Assaud. I think Putin understood far better than America, the tribal links between the Sunni Rebels and the Sunni Isis.

CHERFUL.

forget ISIS. it has reformed as the formidable MS 13 gang in the West, and is on the warpath in a town near you! In spite of all the official denials, it is ISIS affiliated.

Do African youth gangs in Melbourne ring a bell?

diver dan, Yes, we can import radical African Muslims also.

Is Boko Haram a Muslim group? I think they swore allegiance to Isis when they first rose up in Syria.
Who's to say Africans coming in here aren't allied to these groups.
I believe some of the fighters in Sudan are Muslims too.

I haven't heard of the group you mention but I did write to my local paper a couple of years ago and
warned them there was a Islamist extremists threat in importing Africans as well as people from the middle East.
Of course they didn't publish it.

If what you are saying is true, then that is exactly what has happened.

I don't understand the purpose of this article? The author is just saying that ISIS is more crazy than the Taliban. Yup, I agree with that. But so what? They are both allied against anybody who is not Sunni Muslim, even though they occasionally have a shootout between themselves over territory.

The populations of Australia and Afghanistan are roughly equal in numbers. If the entire white population of Australia, and the entire population of Afghanistan simply swapped countries, in 100 years, Afghanistan would be a prosperous and peaceful society, and Australia would be a sheethole.

It's the religion, stupid. And maybe collective population IQ.

However much I applauded the US invasion of Afghanistan which put killed thousands of jihadis and put hundreds more in jail, you have to wonder whether staying there is worth it? The billions spent fighting the war is the only business that anyone in Afghanistan has going for them, and that includes ISIS and the Taliban. As the Emporor Tiberius said about the Germans "they are not worth civilising." US forces would do much better in Afghanistan simply shooting every mullah and Imam, and destroying every mosque. In Iran, of a population of 64 million, 3 million of them are bloody imam's, which gives you some idea of the vested interests of the Muslim clergy with advancing Islam by any means.

Islam is the enemy, and it is an idea. Ideas can be stopped by a better idea. That idea is western secular democracy. But so far, those leftist pseudo liberals who infest our universities are doing their best to convince the Muslims that western democracy is utterly disgusting, and of course the Muslim clergy agree. Not only that, our craven western politicians are even beginning to prosecute those who criticise Islam within their own countries. The bedrock of western democracy, freedom of speech, is under relentless attack.

Also, in order for democracy to work, the population must have some degree of collective intelligence and political sophistication. I don't think that such conditions exist, or will ever exist, in the Middle East or Africa