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ISIS didn’t try to negotiate ransom for James Foley before beheading: family

American journalist James Foley’s terrorist captors never made serious attempts to negotiate for a ransom before brutally beheading the New Hampshire native in 2013, his family testified on Monday.

The revelation came during testimony from Foley’s brother at the federal terror trial of El Shafee Elsheikh — an alleged member of the British-born ISIS executioners dubbed “The Beatles” who is charged in the kidnapping scheme that resulted in the deaths of Foley and three other Americans Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.

by Blazingcatfur•April 5, 2022April 5, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Why an ISIS Propagandist Abandoned Islam

On February 7, 2016, Musa Cerantonio told a friend that his fame as Australia’s best-known ISIS supporter had become a burden. Fellow ISIS supporters felt mysteriously compelled to email or call him before committing crimes. “Why,” Cerantonio lamented, “does everyone, before they do stupid shit, get in contact with me?” In this case, the doer of stupid shit was Alo-Bridget Namoa, the “Bonnie” half of the terror couple she herself had dubbed “the jihadi Bonnie and Clyde.” She and Clyde, a.k.a. Sameh Bayda, were both later convicted of terror offenses. Namoa had contacted Cerantonio, the Australian authorities tapping his phone later revealed, because she needed to know where to get an ISIS flag in Sydney. ISIS supporters were treating him like a jihadist help desk. If you see her, Cerantonio told his friend, “slap her for me.” Later that year, Cerantonio was arrested for trying to travel by boat from Australia to ISIS territory in the southern Philippines. He has been in prison ever since, and he has 13 months left on his sentence.

A convert who is now deradicalized? We’ll see.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2022April 3, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Where would we be without Islamic scholars?

Islamic Scholar: Israel Instigated The War In Order To Empty Out Ukraine And Move In

Palestinian Islamic scholar Mraweh Nassar, the Secretary-General of the Jerusalem Committee of the International Union of Muslims Scholars, said in a March 22, 2022 interview on the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Arabic-language Channel 9 (Turkey) that the war in Ukraine was instigated by the Jews in order to establish a Jewish state there to replace Israel. He explained that the Jews have been forsaken by America and the West, who have come to realize that the Zionist project is a failure that will come to an end within two years. He elaborated that the Israelis have thus realigned with Russia and China.

Glad that’s cleared up.

by Blazingcatfur•April 3, 2022April 3, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", "Ukraine - Russia", Islam, WTF?

Lawyer Fined for Saying Free Speech ‘Dying‘ Due to Muslims Wins Appeal

A lawyer fined £500 ($660) by regulators after saying that “free speech is dying and Islamists and other Muslims are playing a central role” has won an appeal to the Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service, telling Breitbart the campaign against him was “politically motivated”.

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Gone to Rot – Free speech in Britain is losing ground to the “right” not to be offended

John Adams wrote that the real war for American independence was won in the hearts and minds of the people, with the help of newspapers and pamphlets, which “enlightened and informed” public opinion. Freedom of expression, which the American colonists inherited from the British liberal tradition, was thus a catalyst for the creation of a new nation. In Britain today, however, the public seems to be losing interest in such liberty: a December 2021 YouGov poll found that 43 percent of respondents valued protecting people from offensive or hateful remarks over the right to free speech.

by Blazingcatfur•April 3, 2022April 2, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

‘She’s braver than any of you lot.’ Trial of ISIS ‘Beatle’ El Shafee Elsheikh hears how American hostage Kayla Mueller was so stoic and strong during captivity in Syria that the jihadists asked her to comfort other inmates

A female American ISIS hostage was so stoic and strong during her captivity that her captors asked her to comfort other inmates.

A court heard that Kayla Mueller ‘held herself really well’ while in Syria and was able to keep her feelings of terror inside her.

Her captors, the notorious group of jihadists nicknamed ‘The Beatles’, even asked her to reassure another hostage who was ‘really scared’.

by Blazingcatfur•April 2, 2022April 2, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

French court plays tapes of Bataclan killings at survivor’s request

Families, friends and survivors listen in silence to recordings from inside theatre where 90 people died

On the evening of 13 November 2015, about 1,500 concertgoers were watching the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal at the Bataclan theatre in central Paris. At the beginning it was “a great show”, fans reported afterwards. Youngsters were dancing in the pit in front of the stage and on the balcony; some were buying drinks at the bar.

On Friday, for the first time, a French court heard audio recordings and saw photographs of what happened next. There was silence as the court was played three sound recordings from the Bataclan attack, one of a series of bombings and shootings across Paris that killed 130 people and injured more than 300.

by Blazingcatfur•April 2, 2022April 2, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Verboten: In Germany it is increasingly dangerous to criticize Islam

There are no taboos in modern Germany, except for critcizing Islam – which gets you fired, cancelled or worse.

What has emerged in recent days from the Goethe University of Frankfurt shows us that Europe is no longer a real democracy, but an ideological oligarchy. The newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung tells us that Professor Susanne Schröter, director of the Frankfurt Research Center and professor at the Institute of Ethnology, reported that a young researcher’s political stance on Islam now plays an important role in his future career. If he speaks well of Islam, he will make a career, otherwise he will not.

Schröter denounced the “cancel culture” which seeks to ban politically or morally unpleasant positions from universities. She referred to graduate students whose dissertations were not accepted because they dealt with “wrong” topics. For example, “honor killings” in Islam. “If an anthropologist deals with Islam, his career is over,” said Schröter.

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2022April 1, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Islamic State ‘Beatle’ trial: Aid worker taken hostage with David Haines tells court of ‘intense’ beatings

An aid worker taken hostage by Islamic State (IS) with Briton David Haines has told the terror trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, allegedly one of the so-called “IS Beatles”, that he suffered “intense” beatings while being held captive.

Federico Motka endured 14 months of brutality after he and his colleagues were kidnapped near a refugee camp on the Turkish border in 2013.

The Italian relived his ordeal on Thursday at the trial of British national El Shafee Elsheikh, in the US.

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2022April 1, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, USA

It’s Not a ‘Phobia’ When They Really Are Trying to Kill You

The United Nations recently named March 15—also rather ominously known as the Ides of March—as “the International Day to Combat Islamophobia.” In doing so, they have accepted and seek to mandate the idea that whatever fear (literally, phobia) non-Muslims have of Islam is unfounded and irrational and therefore must be “combatted.”

In reality, aversion to Islam is not new or something that “just happened”; nor is it a byproduct of temporal circumstances (say, resentment towards Muslims due to the terror strikes of 9/11, etc.). Instead, it is something that all rational non-Muslims have felt from the very inception of Islam in the seventh century.

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2022March 31, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Rotherham: Grooming gang detective cleared of misconduct

The last of 47 police officers to be investigated over their handling of historic allegations of child sex abuse in Rotherham has been cleared of misconduct.

Former Det Sgt David Walker had been accused of not following up tip-offs about grooming gangs in the town.

A misconduct panel found he had acted appropriately with any information.

Rotherham MP Sarah Champion said the result would be a “bitter disappointment” for abuse victims.

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2022March 31, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Should Western Christians Provide Life Support to Islam?

It may do well to heed one of the more reliable lessons of history.

When tyrannies are appeased, they tend to grow. That seems to be one of the more reliable lessons of history. Yet, societies continue to appease aggressors in the hope that, maybe this time, appeasement will work.

I’m not talking about appeasing Russia. A great many people are coming to the conclusion, as they should, that Putin should not be appeased. I’m talking instead about the appeasement of Islam that’s been the rule ever since the radical side of Islam reasserted itself about four decades ago.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Paris attacks defendant refuses to answer suicide vest questions

The main suspect on trial for the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks has refused to explain his exact role in the series of suicide bombings and shootings that left 130 people dead and many more injured.

It was supposed to be the most anticipated day in the nine-month trial as Salah Abdeslam took the stand on Wednesday to explain why he had not activated his suicide vest on 13 November 2015.

However, there were groans from victims as well as friends and family present in the Paris court, when he announced: “I am exercising my right to remain silent.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

El Shafee Elsheikh: Opening statements in ISIS Beatle jihadist trial

Opening statements take place on Monday in the US federal trial of an ex-British jihadist accused of hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder.

El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, is the last of a group of Islamic State militants – known as the Beatles for their British accents – to face justice.

The group is said to have tortured and beheaded hostages in Syria, including several journalists and aid workers.

The trial, in Virginia, is expected to last three to four weeks.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 30, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, USA

What happened to the jihadists known as the IS Beatles?

A British-born man who was one of the so-called Islamic State Beatles is on trial in a US federal court, accused of hostage-taking and conspiring to murder several Western journalists and aid workers.

El Shafee Elsheikh is alleged to be one of a group of IS fighters from Britain who tortured hostages in Syria and posted execution videos.

He is the last of the group to be brought to justice.

by Blazingcatfur•March 30, 2022March 29, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Man and 2 teens planned ISIS-inspired killings of Shiite congregants of Chicago mosque during spring break, FBI says

A man from Maine and two teenagers planned an ISIS-inspired attack on a Shia Muslim mosque near Chicago, newly unsealed court documents revealed on Friday.

The FBI said Xavier Pelkey of Waterville, Maine, and the two teens — one from the Chicago area and one from Kentucky — communicated through Instagram and other chat platforms with plans to meet in Chicago during “spring break.” The teens were not named due to their age.

The teenager in Chicago allegedly told the FBI that the plan was to “enter the Shia mosque and separate the adults from the children, then murder the adults” all in the name of ISIS, according to a court filing.

by Blazingcatfur•March 28, 2022March 28, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA, WTF?