Jean-Louis Denis, one of the most prolific recruiters of Belgian foreign terrorist fighters for the Syrian war a decade ago, has embraced the Taliban. In a series of videos posted last week, he announced his hijra to Afghanistan about 3 months ago (1/10) - ThreadSky

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guyvanvlierden.bsky.social • 42 days ago

Jean-Louis Denis, one of the most prolific recruiters of Belgian foreign terrorist fighters for the Syrian war a decade ago, has embraced the Taliban. In a series of videos posted last week, he announced his hijra to Afghanistan about 3 months ago (1/10)

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guyvanvlierden.bsky.social•42 days ago

Alternately known as Jean-Louis Le Soumis, Abu Sara and Abu Yahya, he came into the picture as an extremist as early as 2008. At that time, he distributed pamphlets against democracy and for jihad around the Brussels North Station (2/10) https://www.hln.be/buitenland/er-zit-een-belg-bij-de-afghaanse-taliban-en-hij-is-niet-de-eerste-de-beste-jihadronselaar~ad8c76c3/

guyvanvlierden.bsky.social•42 days ago

In 2011, he started distributing food to the homeless under the name 'Resto du Tawhid', which earned him a large following, whom he soon began recruiting for Syria. In total, at least 57 FTFs left with his help (3/10)

guyvanvlierden.bsky.social•42 days ago

One of them was Najim Laachraoui, later known as explosives expert of the Islamic State, who supplied the bombs for the Paris attacks of November 13, 2015 and who himself died in the Brussels attacks on March 22, 2016 (4/10)

guyvanvlierden.bsky.social•42 days ago

In 2016, Denis was sentenced, first to 10 and on appeal to 5 years in prison. When he was released in 2018, he readily admitted to having become even more radicalized (5/10)

guyvanvlierden.bsky.social•42 days ago

In recent years, he has raised money to establish an ecological Muslim village under the name 'Hijra Permaculture Autonomie', which he tried in vain in Benin (where he was arrested and deported) and Indonesia (6/10)

guyvanvlierden.bsky.social•42 days ago

He now says he will continue that project in Afghanistan, also with the intention that it will benefit an orphanage, images of which he shows in his recent videos (7/10)

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