Spain: Stop to two magnets: “support to the Islamic State” – MDZ Online

Two magnets moroccan of a mosque in the Spanish island of Ibiza, were arrested in the early hours of today for their alleged support to the self-proclaimed States Islamic (EI), as reported by the Ministry of Interior of Spain in a press release.

Those arrested, 31 and 35 years, are considered to be alleged perpetrators of offences of glorification, advocacy, and indoctrination. According to Interior, expressed “publicly and repeatedly” through the social networks their support, “express” to the terrorist group, its procedures and his ideas.

Both reside in the town of Sant Antoni de Portmany and served as imams in the mosque Masllid the Fath of Ibiza, a privileged position from which to exert your influence among the members of the muslim community of the island, especially on the children attending the classes they themselves taught.

According to the Ministry of Interior, one of them was using your profile in Facebook as a platform for disseminating propaganda of the terrorist group, the same of which also served to make efforts own of the islamic community that was headed.

detainees also favored the accession of his faithful to the ideology salafist radical, “fostering feelings of hate, segregation and even violence against those they called ‘enemies of Islam’”, according to the press release explains of the Interior.

Also, don’t hesitate to “praise” the attitude of the muslims who travel to different scenarios of conflict, such as Syria and Iraq, to “do jihad” by joining the ranks of the Islamic State.

The researchers found that, in 2012, coinciding with the phenomenon of the arab spring and the massive exodus of foreign fighters to join the ranks of the EI in Iraq and Syria, the arrested started to increase your activity on the Internet.

The operation counted with the collaboration of the Moroccan Police.

security forces in spain have arrested 156 suspected jihadists from 2015, the year in which it raised the alert against terrorism in the country at the level 4, one less than the maximum.