Over the years, I’ve often asked how it is that jihad groups, particularly in Africa, so often show themselves to be better funded, better equipped and better trained than the national armies that are ostensibly opposing them. This story offers a significant clue, although it is from Syria, not Africa, but in Syria, a jihad […]
French cement giant found guilty of financing jihad groups, including the Islamic State
This is not the first time the French company Lefarge was found to be financing jihadists. Jihad Watch reported in 2022 that the company was embroiled in almost the exact same scandal. Lefarge pled guilty to paying out millions to the Islamic State group “to keep a plant operational in Syria — at a time […]
France: Cement company Lafarge pleads guilty to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State
Lafarge only cared about its bottom line. That way of thinking will be the death of the West. “French firm pleads guilty to paying millions to ISIS,” Associated Press, October 19, 2022: French cement company Lafarge pleaded guilty Tuesday to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State group to keep a plant operational in Syria […]
France: Cement corporation Lafarge paid $15,300,000 to jihad groups to keep Syria factory running
Financing the jihad for their short-term profit line. A policy that in the long run is nothing less than suicidal. “France’s Lafarge loses ruling in Syria ‘crimes against humanity’ case,” by Eleonore Dermy and Clare Byrne, AFP, September 7, 2021: France’s top court on Tuesday overturned a decision by a lower court to dismiss charges […]