Islam and violence – Page 284

Defender of the Dhimmis

Recently I was in the city of Hassakeh, Syria, sitting and making small talk with two Syrians, one Kurdish and the other Syriac Christian. The Christian said he would like to invite me to his house but, because he lives in the government-controlled area of the city, he couldn’t. He’d previously had a guest from another Arab country, and the government’s security service immediately knocked on his door, asking who the guest was. As an American journalist without a Syrian visa, I would not be welcome in the government-held part of the city. (Hassakeh is currently divided between the majority of the city that falls under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and a small section that falls under the control of the Syrian government.) The Kurd sitting with us immediately piped in, saying that it was for the people’s benefit that the government kept such a close watch on the security situation. That was why Syria was so safe before the war. The Christian enthusiastically agreed.

by Blazingcatfur•January 27, 2022January 26, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Syria

RCMP make preventive terrorism arrests in Ontario, Quebec

In Toronto, a youth was arrested Jan. 14, on a preventive terrorism peace bond and appeared in court Thursday in a case allegedly related to the so-called Islamic State.

Another youth was arrested on a terrorism peace bond Dec. 8, and was released on conditions following a court appearance in Terrebonne, Que., north of Montreal.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 25, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Colleyville and the ‘professional’ civil servants

… At any rate, given the outcome at the scene, from a professional statecraft perspective, De Sarno and his team played things by the book. De Sarno’s denial of the terrorist’s anti-Semitic motivation had nothing to do with professionalism. It was a political/ideological pronouncement. It wasn’t made in a vacuum, and it should be deeply disconcerting to all Americans because it is a testament to a growing pathology within the FBI.

Over the past 15 years, much of the federal government, including the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice, have been politicized and radicalized. The first major demonstration of the politicization came in 2013 with the IRS’s discriminatory use of its regulatory authorities against organizations and individuals aligned with the conservative and Republican side of the ideological/political spectrum.

by Blazingcatfur•January 25, 2022January 24, 2022•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Disinformation", "Islamophobia", "Progressive Paradise", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

The Houthis Must Be Relisted as a Terrorist Group

… The group, which, according to a Yemeni government intelligence report, “works closely” with Al Qaeda and ISIS, in addition, it seems, commits crimes against humanity. It has reportedly, since 2015, killed and injured more than 17,500 civilians — and it recruits, injures and kills children.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2022January 24, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, USA, WTF?, Yemen, Yemen - Houthi/proxy war

Hundreds of ISIS children held by ISIS in besieged prison in Syria

Fears are growing over the fate of hundreds of children believed to be held by jihadist extremists inside a besieged prison in north-east Syria.

Nearly 850 children are inside Ghwayran prison in Hasaka, which was stormed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters on Thursday, triggering days of battles.

At least 136 people have been killed since the jihadists launched their assault to try to free jailed fighters.

Thousands of IS suspects are held in prisons run by Kurdish authorities.

by Blazingcatfur•January 24, 2022January 24, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

What Did the FBI Agent in Colleyville Mean by His Dismissive Comment?

American Jews are waking up.

In 1994, my wife and I took our children on a trip to visit relatives in England. We stayed over the Sabbath at her cousin’s home in a quiet London suburb. In the morning, I walked to the synagogue, one that her cousin, an architect, had designed.

I was shocked when I reached the building to see a policeman conspicuously posted by the synagogue entrance, keeping a careful watch on the comings and goings. How jarring it seemed in that green and pleasant land, a proud bulwark of political freedom, to see this show of force. Thank God, I thought to myself, that in America, it hasn’t come to that.

by Blazingcatfur•January 23, 2022January 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Britain has a Muslim anti-Semitism problem

Highly segregated communities have become breeding grounds for Islamism and anti-Jew hatred.

On 15 January, Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British Pakistani Muslim from Blackburn in north-west England, took four people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. In return for their release, he called on the US authorities to free Islamist terrorist Aafia Siddiqui from nearby Fort Worth prison. In a phone call during the siege to his brother, he said that ‘maybe [the authorities will] have compassion for fucking Jews’. An FBI hostage rescue team eventually entered the synagogue and shot Akram dead.

It was only last year that Muslim hatred for Jews and Israel was recognized in Canada. I’m only half kidding about that.

by Blazingcatfur•January 23, 2022January 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and hatred of Israel, Islam and hatred of Jews, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Éric Zemmour: France’s Last Chance for Survival?

Paris, December 18, 2021. The Algerian national soccer team wins the Arab Cup in Qatar. Tens of thousands of Algerian supporters, waving Algerian flags, rush onto the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Shop windows are smashed. The unrest lasts until nightfall. Slogans are shouted: “Long live Algeria”, “By Allah, the Koran!” — and also “Fu*k France!” and “Fu*k Zemmour!” The police are ordered not to intervene. They are attacked anyway.

The next day, Jean Messiha, a former member of the National Rally Party, notes on television: “The great replacement and the ethnic hatred, we can see them”.

Éric Zemmour, a Jewish candidate for the French presidency, does not comment. He simply states in an interview: “sadly banal scenes”.

by Blazingcatfur•January 23, 2022January 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Syrian Kurdish forces backed by US troops fight to regain control of ISIS prison

Fighting at a prison in the northern Syrian city of al-Hasaka entered a fourth day on Sunday as the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued to battle fighters from the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group after a breakout at the facility.

The Kurdish forces said the militants attacked the prison once more on Sunday and tried to break the security cordon around it. In a statement, the SDF said the attack had been repelled and the IS fighters driven back into a residential area. Another attack by IS militants coming from outside the city was also thwarted, a spokesman said.

by Blazingcatfur•January 23, 2022January 23, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

The Texas synagogue attack won’t be the last

Islamists have regrouped and grown stronger

“At one point, our attacker instructed us to get on our knees. I reared up in my chair, stared at him sternly… and mouthed ‘no’.”

It’s easy to read Jeffrey Cohen’s account of being held hostage in a Texan synagogue at the weekend as an uplifting tale of bravery and accomplishment: it tells of a terrifying stand-off with a deranged, gun-wielding attacker, brought to an end after nearly 11 hours when a rabbi threw a chair at the assailant and managed to escape with two other hostages

by Blazingcatfur•January 23, 2022January 22, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Follow the Netherlands’s example: Don’t fund terrorist fronts

The bomb that ended Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb’s life in August 2019 also ended Dutch support for the nongovernmental organization that employed her killers. It just took about two years to happen.

Last Wednesday, the Dutch Cabinet upheld its decision to cut funding to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, a Palestinian nonprofit group whose stated goal is to help local farmers. Faced with incontrovertible evidence, the Dutch couldn’t deny that the UAWC simply had too many employees who moonlight for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine or vice versa.

by Blazingcatfur•January 22, 2022January 22, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

‘Dozens of ISIS fighters’ freed in Syrian jail break

Islamic State has attacked a Syrian prison housing its suspected members and a military base in Iraq in near-simultaneous deadly operations that have revived fears of the terror group’s resurgence.

IS has yet to comment on the attacks and there is no indication that these were coordinated, but according to analysts they strongly suggest IS is trying to boost its ranks and arsenal in an attempt to reorganise across both countries.

The attack in Syria killed at least 23 Kurdish security forces and set “dozens of IS fighters” free, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

by Blazingcatfur•January 21, 2022January 21, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence

Colleyville and the evils of identity politics

Why the woke set doesn’t care about this act of racist holy war.

Isn’t it remarkable that all those woke blowhards and self-righteous TikTokers who were raging about JK Rowling’s ‘racist’ goblins a couple of weeks ago have had nothing to say about the violent hostage-taking of four actual Jews in Texas? You remember the goblin controversy. It was a new low – there’s one every week – for the Rowling-hating set.

by Blazingcatfur•January 21, 2022January 20, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamization of the West

Whoever made the decision to import this into Canada should be jailed

Seriously, who let these monsters in? The death cult is holding rallies to free mass murderers. I did not vote nor was my approval sought to import this satanic evil.

by Blazingcatfur•January 20, 2022January 20, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Woman sentenced to death in Pakistan over ‘blasphemous’ WhatsApp activity

… According to the charge sheet, Ateeq, 26, met her accuser, a fellow Pakistani, online in 2019 through a mobile gaming app and the pair began corresponding over WhatsApp.

He accused her of sending blasphemous caricatures of holy prophets, making remarks about “holy personages” on WhatsApp and using her Facebook account to transmit blasphemous material to other accounts. In doing so, she “deliberately and intentionally defiles sacred righteous personalities and insulted the religious beliefs of Muslims”, according to the charge sheet.

by Blazingcatfur•January 20, 2022January 20, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Blasphemy, Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State