TRINIDAD has highest rate of ISIS recruits in western hemisphere

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More than 400 Trinidad citizens are feared to have left to join ISIS since 2013
Country of 1.3m has the highest rate of ISIS recruits in the western hemisphere
Terror group's magazine features chilling threats from a Trinidad ISIS fighter

Published: 02:59 EST, 13 December 2016 | Updated: 14:21 EST, 13 December 2016

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The Caribbean island of Trinidad has been revealed as the country with the highest rate of ISIS recruits in the western hemisphere.

More than 400 of its citizens are feared to have left to join the terror group in Syria and Iraq since 2013.

It puts Trinidad and Tobago - a country of 1.3million, including more than 100,000 Muslims - top of the list of Western nations when it comes to the rate of foreign-fighter radicalisation.

The Caribbean island of Trinidad has become the country with the highest rate of ISIS recruits in the western hemisphere, it has emerged (file picture)

According to The Atlantic, Roodal Moonilal, an opposition Member of Parliament in Trinidad and Tobago claims more than 400 extremists from the island have fled to the so-called ISIS caliphate in the Middle East.

Others say the figure is lower and between 90 and 125.

The terror group's latest magazine issue carried an interview with a fighter called Abu Sa’d at-Trinidadi.

The fanatic urged Muslims in his homeland to attack fellow citizens, ranting: 'Terrify the disbelievers in their own homes and make their streets run with their blood.'

He also condemned his countrymen for staying in 'a place where you have no honour and are forced to live in humiliation, subjugated by the disbelievers.'

More than 400 Trinidad citizens are feared to have left to join the terror group in Syria and Iraq since 2013 (file picture)

A number of Muslim organisations in the country have publicly condemned the actions of ISIS claiming it did not reflect the teachings of Islam.

Muslims make up 6 per cent of the population in Trinidad and Tobago.

In 1990, the group Jamaat al Muslimeen held the then-prime minister and several Cabinet members hostage during a six-day siege which claimed 24 lives.

The 114 Muslimeen members were freed when a court upheld a government amnesty.