Islam and violence – Page 287

Taliban Defense Minister Threatens to Put 2,000 Jihad Suicide Bombers at Afghan Embassy in DC

The Taliban’s defense minister, Maulvi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, recently responded to news that the U.S. plans to station 2,000 troops at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul by presenting what he considered to be a tit-for-tat: according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the austere diplomat tweeted: “If America wants 2,000 English [i.e., American] troops at its embassy in Afghanistan, we also want 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen [i.e., suicide bombers] from the Fateh Force at the embassy of Afghanistan in America.” Two-thousand suicide bombers in Washington! It’ll almost be like Congress, but bigger.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, USA

Supreme Court denies appeal of “regretful” Islamic State bride

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Attorneys for a woman who left her Alabama home to join the Islamic State terror group plan to continue fighting for her and her young son even though the Supreme Court declined to consider her lawsuit seeking to re-enter the United States, one of the lawyers said Wednesday.

Hoda Muthana and her 4-year-old child, the son of a man she met while with IS, have been living in a Syrian refugee camp for nearly the entire life of the child, and it’s unclear what steps might come next to argue for their admittance into the United States, said Christina Jump, who represents the woman’s family.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Jewish charities among top funders of Islamophobia, says report by Muslim terrorist front group CAIR

Charitable foundations with ties to Jewish federations and Jewish families feature prominently in a new report about the flow of tax-deductible donations to organizations that a leading Muslim civil rights lobby has identified as “anti-Muslim groups.”

Titled “Islamophobia in the Mainstream,” the report was published Tuesday by CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group and political lobby that is harshly critical of Israel.

It follows a different report from 2019 that identified some 1,100 groups CAIR identified as funding anti-Muslim activity. In the new report, CAIR used publicly available IRS data to analyze the top 50 charitable foundations in the 2019 report.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", CAIR, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Attacker who slugged Jewish man in Israeli military hoodie charged with hate crime

The attacker who slugged a Jewish man for wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt in Brooklyn was busted Tuesday, cops said.

Suleiman Othman, 27, of Staten Island, was nabbed at 8:50 a.m. Tuesday in connection to the Dec. 26 attack on 21-year-old Blake Zavadsky outside the Foot Locker store on 86th Street near Fifth Avenue.

by Blazingcatfur•January 11, 2022January 11, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Cambridge University prison rehab programme used by London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan is scrapped

Cambridge University has scrapped its prison rehabilitation programme after a convicted terrorist went on a bloody rampage in London.

Freed terrorist Usman Khan, 28, convinced staff at the Learning Together programme he was a reformed character before killing two graduates.

Khan, wearing a fake suicide vest with kitchen knives strapped to his hands, stabbed rehab worker Jack Merritt, 25, and volunteer Saskia Jones, 23, at an event at Fishmonger’s Hall to mark the scheme’s fifth anniversary. He then ran on to London Bridge where he was shot dead by police on November 29, 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•January 11, 2022January 11, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Saudi court orders first naming of man guilty of sexual harassment

A court in Saudi Arabia has for the first time ordered that a man convicted of sexual harassment be named and shamed in public, local media report.

Yasser al-Arawi was found guilty by the Criminal Court in Medina of harassing a woman using obscene remarks.

He was sentenced to eight months in prison and fined $1,330 (£980).

The anti-harassment law was amended a year ago to allow for offenders’ names and sentences to be published in local newspapers at their own expense.

by Blazingcatfur•January 11, 2022January 11, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Saudi Arabia

Police raid homes of 18 of the usual suspects over New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Milan

Police said the 18 suspects are aged between 15 and 21 and are foreign or Italian of north African origin.

Italian police have raided the homes of 15 young men and three boys who are suspected of involvement in a series of sexual assaults during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Milan.

Nine women have so far reported that they were assaulted during celebrations in front of Milan’s Cathedral on Piazza del Duomo.

The case has prompted comparisons with the mass sexual attacks and muggings that took place in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve in 2015-16.

by Blazingcatfur•January 11, 2022January 11, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Italy

[Ex-Muslims:] The Challenge to Islam It Has Never Faced

Pipes: Ex-Muslims are my topic today. Had you mentioned them to me just a few years ago, I would have said they have no significance beyond some individuals, mostly cowering in secret, not letting the world know their about their hostility to Islam. But I’ve recently concluded that they represent a significant phenomenon, especially as they challenge Islam in an unprecedented way, leaving Muslims with few effective defenses.

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2022January 10, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

That’s how they roll…

Crook teacher banned over terrorist funding

… It told the Teaching Regulation Authority that some of the payments were made to people who had been investigated or arrested for suspected terrorism related offences.

The misconduct panel report said Ms Sebbagh believed violent jihad was the correct interpretation of Islamic teaching but lied about her beliefs and actions.

She claimed not to know ISIS was a terrorist organisation and not to know a video she sent to one person promoted jihad, it said.

She also claimed not to have known another individual was involved in encouraging hate against the West when she sent him money when in fact she shared his views.

Imagine that, the teacher doesn’t know nuffin.

by Blazingcatfur•January 8, 2022January 8, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

UK Police campaign paints terrorists as victims

Counter-terrorism policy in the UK has taken a rather strange turn. Earlier this week, the Twitter account of Counter Terrorism Policing UK put out a tweet containing an 18-second animated-video titled “John’s Story”

by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2022January 7, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

‘I don’t understand why he is still in Canada,’ judge says after sentencing violent criminal offender “refugee” Mohammed Al-Samaneh

A Niagara judge has questioned why a violent criminal, who had amassed more than 40 convictions since arriving in Canada from Syria, is still in the country.

“He has lived a life in Canada of persistent criminality,” Judge Joseph De Filippis said in Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines Thursday.

“As an aside, and respectfully, I don’t understand why he’s still in Canada. He is not a Canadian citizen, he’s a permanent resident, and there are rules around permanent residents who commit crimes.”

Mohammed Al-Samaneh, who originally came to Canada as a refugee, has 44 criminal convictions for multiple offences including assault and forcible confinement. His name is on the National Flagging System which identifies high-risk, violent offenders.

h/t RM

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by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2022January 7, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

US judge rejects torture claims by ISIL ‘Beatles’ defendant

Incriminating statements made by a British national charged with a significant role in the torture and beheading of American and British hostages held by ISIL (ISIS) can be used against him at trial, a judge in the United States has ruled.

El Shafee Elsheikh sought to have statements admitting his role in the scheme tossed out, claiming they were obtained through torture after he was captured.

by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2022January 7, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Dear Sir, so sorry I stabbed you to please my death cult idol Mohammed….

British MP Stephen Timms open to meeting extremist who stabbed him

An Islamist extremist who stabbed a former UK government minister more than 11 years ago has written to him to apologise.

Roshonara Choudhry stabbed and wounded opposition Labour politician Stephen Timms during a meeting in 2010, saying it was in retaliation for him voting for war in Iraq. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison.

by Blazingcatfur•January 6, 2022January 6, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

The aptly titled Lord Ahmed of Rotherham

A peer who was found guilty of sexually abusing two children in the 1970s should be be stripped of his title, an MP has said.

Lord Ahmed of Rotherham was convicted of a serious sexual assault against a boy and attempted rape of a young girl.

Rother Valley MP Alexander Stafford said his peerage was “unacceptable”.

by Blazingcatfur•January 6, 2022January 6, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Prosecutors want to seize Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s $1,400 COVID relief check to use as restitution for victims

The surviving Boston marathon bomber has been ordered by a judge to hand over a $1,400 COVID relief stimulus check he received in prison and give the cash to his victims.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, now 28, was sentenced to death in 2015 for the April 2013 bombings, which killed three and injured more than 260.

He remains at the Colorado ‘supermax’ prison, but in June 2021 received a $1,400 payment from the federal government as part of coronavirus relief available to all Americans.

by Blazingcatfur•January 6, 2022January 6, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?