Federal prosecutors say an 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group has been arrested as he tried to board a flight to Turkey.

An 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group was arrested last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey.

  • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
    17·
    1 year ago

    According to his arrest affidavit, law enforcement began investigating him in June 2022 when someone who knew him contacted the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The person said they were concerned because, after following white supremacist ideology, Meyer, then 17, had turned to Islam and was frequently watching and listening to “radical Islamic sermons online.” The FBI was notified by the sheriff’s office, it said.

    • RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip
      2·
      1 year ago

      Notice the overlap and contradictory ideologies. It’s often not even the specifics of what they are slinging, it’s the group. Being accepted, celebrated, getting to be part of a social scene, that is a common motivation for these societal outliers.

      Isis has done an excellent job with their PR campaign. Their videos are all in 4k and high quality, of course it appeals to a disenfranchised young man that probably doesn’t feel like he has anywhere to turn.

      What’s sad is it seems to have worked but isis all but doesn’t exist anymore, it’s just left over shit from their height. I bet he just googled how to join isis and was directed straight to the fbi lol.