Islam and violence

The attack exposed the myth of the lone wolf

When two young men embellish a Toulouse FC replica shirt with the name of the city’s most notorious mass murderer, is it just a sick and provocative gag, or evidence of sympathy for the killer’s worldview? Earlier this month, the French courts decided it was “terrorism apologia” and handed out three and four-month sentences to two men who, posted a photo on Snapchat wearing a football shirt with the name of the delinquent jihadist, Mohammed Merah, across it, with the number seven — for the number he killed.

Your government lies to you about Islam.

Shamima Begum’s best friend, who she says inspired her to join IS, has been tracked down by the BBC having escaped from a detention camp in Syria.

Sharmeena Begum, no relation, dismissed her former friend, who wants to return to the UK, for “living off benefits” and mocked her as a non-believer.

The BBC also found Sharmeena was fundraising online for members of the IS terror group, which is illegal.

The suspect.

h/t TB

Muslim Council of Britain condemns ‘wanton act of incitement’ after Rasmus Paludan responds to incident at Kettlethorpe High School

A far-Right Danish politician is threatening to burn a Koran in Wakefield after a schoolboy received death threats when a copy of the holy book was dropped.

Rasmus Paludan, the extremist leader of Danish political party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), has become known for holding events where he burns copies of the Koran, some of which have led to violent counter-protests.

However, in his latest stunt, he published a video on Twitter announcing that he is planning to burn a copy of the Islamic holy book in Wakefield, West Yorkshire this week to coincide with Ramadan. He claims he is doing this to ensure “undemocratic forces” in the city “understand and respect democracy”.

There is nothing “extremist” about torching a Koran, the extremists are the ones trying to prevent you from doing so.

Identifying most dangerous terrorists like finding ‘needle in haystack’, Sir Mark Rowley warns

The UK has tens of thousands of potential terrorists and identifying the ones who are likely to carry out an attack is like finding a “needle in a haystack”, Sir Mark Rowley has warned.

While the most dangerous extremists in Britain are closely monitored by the police and security services, there are many more who share the ideology but lack the “spark to act”.

The Met Commissioner said the trigger was often something that happened in their personal life, making it extremely difficult for the authorities to keep on top of.

The Commissioner cites 6400 referrals to the UK’s Prevent “anti-terror” Program.

Prevent was found under a recent review to have falsely focused on the so-called “right-wing” terror threat while ignoring the very real Muslim terror threat because they were afraid of offending the Islamists.

‘Political correctness’ meant Islamist extremism was downplayed by Prevent -Home Secretary’s words come as review finds scheme operated a ‘double standard’, downplaying religion and talking up Right-wing dangers

‘I know that what I have revealed, while increasing public knowledge, will raise other questions that I have not been able to answer,’ Sir John Saunders said, in issuing his final report into the Manchester Arena bombing.

‘I did ask the questions, I did get answers, but for the reasons I have given I have not been able to report publicly what those answers were,’ he added.

The report gave us a glimpse into the decision-making of MI5, but only a glimpse. Despite the thoroughness with which the chairman approached his task, it does leave unanswered questions.

A financial analyst has been found guilty of terrorism offences after a laptop he took for repair led police to his bomb-making factory in a lock-up.

Asad Bhatti, 49, from Redhill in Surrey, who worked for Legal & General as a senior analyst, combined Islam and conspiracy theories to come up with his own manifesto, a court was told.

A woman who was used as a sex slave by ISIS has described seeing Shamima Begum at a terrorist training camp in 2015 – and branded the former ISIS bride’s new reformed persona as ‘fake’.

The woman, using the pseudonym ‘Dila’, hails from the Yazidi people of Kurdistan, who were subjected to a genocide by ISIS, with at least 5,000 murdered and twice that number kidnapped into slavery.