Islam and violence – Page 307

Afghanistan: The pledge binding al-Qaeda to the Taliban

A key question arising from the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan is their relationship with their long-time ally, al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda is bound to the Taliban by a pledge of allegiance – or “bay’ah” – which was first offered in the 1990s by Osama Bin Laden to his Taliban counterpart Mullah Omar.

The pledge has been renewed several times since, although it has not always been publicly acknowledged by the Taliban.

Under the 2020 peace deal with the US, the Taliban agreed not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in areas under their control. They reiterated this vow days after the takeover of Kabul on 15 August.

But they do not appear to have publicly rejected al-Qaeda either.

by Blazingcatfur•September 7, 2021September 7, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Afghan repeatedly stabs victim ‘because he didn’t like the fact she was a working woman’

A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany repeatedly stabbed a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday.

The man stabbed the woman in the neck several times in the city’s Wilmersdorf district on Saturday afternoon.

A 66-year-old man who saw the attack unfold rushed to help the woman but was also stabbed in the neck by the suspect.

Back to gender studies class you go!

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2021September 6, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Revealed: life inside ‘global villages’ of Islamic State jihadis in Afghanistan

Women who joined Islamic State in Afghanistan give rare insight into international network that bombed airport

In 2017, a group of senior Arab fighters travelled from Syria to Afghanistan, to cement the links between Islamic State cells in the two areas.

They arrived in an international village, where the jihadi families included a blond German husband and wife and French, Russian, Chinese Uyghur and central Asian families, according to a rare testimony by an Uzbek woman who was a member the group.

She spent nearly eight years as a fighter’s wife in eastern Nangarhar province under a web of international jihadi groups that have taken root in eastern and northern Afghanistan, shifting names and allegiances, but currently known as Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), a reference to the historical name for a cross-border region.

by Blazingcatfur•September 5, 2021September 5, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence

Life in Kabul under Taliban: Where is your male escort?

“Why are you travelling without a mahram?” the Taliban guard asks a young Afghan woman about her missing male escort.

She sits on her own in the back of a beat-up Kabul yellow taxi as it pulls up to the checkpoint marked, like all the others, by the white Taliban flag with black script.

What is allowed now in Kabul, and what is not?

by Blazingcatfur•September 4, 2021September 4, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence

9/11: 20 years on, Germany still grapples with militant Islamists

Sven Kurenbach still remembers the images of the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsing and the spontaneous minute of silence at the Berlin police department that followed. When Islamist terrorists weaponized passenger planes on September 11, 2001 — killing nearly 3,000 people — Kurenbach was still head of inspection for the Berlin police’s special units. Today he is Germany’s top investigator into jihadist activities.

Twenty years ago, Islamist terror was still largely an unknown for German security authorities, Kurenbach recalled recently at an event organized by “Mediendienst Integration” in Berlin. Just a dozen officers at the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) had been dealing with it.

by Blazingcatfur•September 4, 2021September 4, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Cultural acclimatization

Supermarket Chain in New Zealand Reportedly Takes Knives Off Shelves After Stabbing Attack

Following Friday’s terrorist attack in New Zealand’s city of Auckland, supermarket giant Countdown has temporarily removed all knives and scissors from sale, the New Zealand Herald reported.

“We want all of our team to feel safe when they come to work, especially considering the events of yesterday,” Countdown’s General Manager of Corporate Affairs Kiri Hannifin told the newspaper.

The newspaper further reported that Countdown is even considering stopping the sale of all knives and scissors permanently. Foodstuffs NZ also retrieved their knives from sale.

by Blazingcatfur•September 4, 2021September 4, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, New Zealand

Six injured in ISIS inspired ‘terror attack’ in Auckland

A known extremist was responsible for a terror attack in Auckland which has seen six people injured, three of whom are in critical condition, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday evening.

The man was shot and killed by members of a police Special Tactics Group within 60 seconds of the attack beginning, Ardern said. He was a Sri Lankan national who came to New Zealand in October 2011 and has been considered a “person of national security interest” from 2016.

Ardern said she was limited in what more she could share about the man as a result of suppression orders made by the court, although a spokesman for the Prime Minister later confirmed the Crown was “seeking the court’s urgent lifting of the suppression orders, which will be filed this [Friday] evening”.

Seems he was a known unknown – ‘Violent extremist’ responsible for mall terrorist attack was ‘known threat to New Zealand’

by Blazingcatfur•September 3, 2021September 3, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, New Zealand

Islamic State ‘Beatle’ to plead guilty to U.S. terrorism charges

WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – A British-born man who was a member of a team of Islamic State militants in Syria nicknamed “The Beatles” accused of beheading American hostages was due to plead guilty on Thursday to U.S. criminal charges, according to a federal court record.

A docket entry for the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, showed a change of plea hearing was scheduled on Thursday for Alexanda Kotey, one of two Islamic State members who had been held in Iraq by the U.S. military before being flown to the United States to face trial on terrorism charges.

by Blazingcatfur•September 2, 2021September 2, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Germany arrests suspected ‘Islamic State’ fundraiser

German federal prosecutors arrested a woman on Monday suspected of collecting money for the extremist “Islamic State” (IS) group and helping with bank transfers to the Middle East.

The suspect, identified only as Denise S., is thought to have been in contact with female IS members to keep them informed on money being sent to the group.

She is also accused of collecting donations for a woman member to enable her to return to the group after her detention in a Kurdish refugee camp.

by Blazingcatfur•August 30, 2021August 30, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

“Killing Our People Has Become Routine”: The Persecution of Christians, July 2021

The Abduction, Rape, and Forced Conversion of Christian Girls in Pakistan

A Muslim teacher raped an 8-year-old Christian in a school bathroom, and the school and police are covering it up. According to the July 11 report, Shahzad Masih’s young daughter was “shaking and screaming in pain when she returned home from school that day, June 22, her uniform spotted with blood.” “She did not utter a word all afternoon and just kept crying and screaming in pain,” her father explained.

by Blazingcatfur•August 30, 2021August 29, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Persecution Of Christians

Another of Monsef’s brothers up to no good

In first, Toronto man pleads guilty to murder in commission of terrorist act

by Blazingcatfur•August 26, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Yazidi women and girls still enslaved by Isis within detention camp

On the seventh anniversary of Islamic State’s genocide of the Yazidi people, about 2,800 women and girls enslaved by the terror group are still missing.

It is thought that many of those who survived may be trapped in the increasingly dangerous Al-Hawl detention camp in northeast Syria, imprisoned with their captors.

Rights groups say that, without international efforts to identify and free them, these women and girls, originally from the Sinjar area in Iraq, are at risk of being smuggled outside the Kurdish-run camp and sent to Islamic State – or Isis – cells in Syria and third countries like Turkey – after which, it may become impossible to find them.

by Blazingcatfur•August 26, 2021August 25, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Yazidis

SULTANI: Shame on Monsef for calling Taliban ‘our brothers’

In a morning briefing on Afghanistan, Maryam Monsef, Canada’s Minister for Women and Gender Equality called the Taliban her “brothers” and asked them to allow Canadians to get to the Kabul airport in order to leave the country. After facing heavy criticism, Monsef is defending herself on the grounds that she used “brothers” in a cultural context.

As a Canadian who moved to this country as an Afghan refugee, I want to be very clear, there is no cultural context in which calling the Taliban “brothers” is acceptable. Words carry meaning, and meanings imply moral positions.

by Blazingcatfur•August 25, 2021August 25, 2021•0•"Another Damn Election", "Islamophobia", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

As Afghan Women Face Brutal Subjugation Under Taliban Rule, Biden Admin To Host 5K Run for ‘Women’s Equality’

As millions of Afghan women are abandoned to subjugation and torture at the hands of the Taliban, President Joe Biden’s Defense Department will celebrate “Women’s Equality Day” on Thursday by hosting a 5K run at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.

“Women’s Equality Day gives us an opportunity to reflect on the many benefits of true equality and the role of women in our public life,” the military’s diversity and inclusion officers wrote in an email announcing the event. No registration is required to participate, and prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers.

by Blazingcatfur•August 25, 2021August 25, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, WTF?

Huh? Haven’t we been lectured that the bloodthirsty Taliban and their ilk are in no way Muslim? Well Maryam Monsef corrects that erroneous assumption!

Muslim minister for women, gender equality faces backlash after calling Taliban ‘our brothers’

When asked to clarify her comments, Liberal MP Monsef explained that it is common for Muslim men and women to refer to each other as ‘brothers and sisters’

Oh so the Taliban are indeed as Muslim as Mohammed! Thanks for clearing that up Maryam!

by Blazingcatfur•August 25, 2021August 25, 2021•0•"Another Damn Election", "Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West