Problem of overseas extremists posing as students and recruiting at Malaysian universities - 9 deported in June for urging bombings and trying to resurrect Jemaah Islamiyah

From AFP,

Malaysia's universities have become prime recruiting grounds for Islamic militants looking for youngsters to draw into terrorist networks, security experts warn.

A string of arrests and detentions this year have highlighted the growing presence of radicals using Malaysia as a base to sign up supporters and plan attacks.

In June, authorities deported 45-year-old Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian scholar Aiman Al Dakak along with eight other foreigners from Syria, Yemen, Nigeria and Jordan, most of them students.

Al Dakak gave lectures to Malaysian and foreign students at his Kuala Lumpur home, allegedly indoctrinating them with jihadist ideology and urging them to carry out bombings on places of worship in the multi-ethnic nation.

[Zamihan Mat Zin, deputy head of the Malaysian Islamic Training Centre said] "Some of these Al-Qaeda operatives who are caught overseas but not prosecuted because of a lack of evidence or a good lawyer, they are able to escape so they then come to Malaysia to study to do a Masters or PhD, but at the same time they are busy recruiting undergraduates."

Zamihan said the nine deported in June were Al-Qaeda operatives who were quietly trying to resurrect JI [Jemaah Islamiyah], a militant Southeast Asian group blamed for a string of major attacks including the 2002 Bali bombings.

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Source: AFP

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Comments: This is a problem not just in Malaysia. The problem is especially severe in British universities. The Christmas attempted under wear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was president of Islamic Society at University College London.

And these terrorists and recruits and potential recruits aren't poor or uneducated, despite frequent claims that poverty, lack of education and disadvantage were to blame for Muslims turning to terrorism.

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