TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO19 MAY 2017
ISIL in the Caribbean: Why Trinidadians fight in Syria and Iraq

How did the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago become the nation with the highest number of ISIS recruits per capita in the Western Hemisphere?

by Juliana Ruhfus

Caribbean to Caliphate - there are few films I have made that received similar, curious interest from friends and colleagues. Usually after a few seconds delay they ask: ... "from where?" Nobody, it seems, imagines the palm-lined beaches of the Caribbean as a recruitment ground for the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).

"The Africans are going to a pool of unemployment, they just sit in the ghetto and do nothing. And then drugs come in and it's a haven for the drugs. And now the guns are in, so the murder rate is just spiralling out of control."

-Yasin Abu Bakr, leader of Trinidad's Jamaat al-Muslimeen group

http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/ameri...105356249.html