Islamization of the West – Page 258

ISIS ‘Beatle’ trial hears that hostages were forced to sing ‘Hotel Osama’ – a depraved parody of the Eagles hit – before being executed

A French journalist held by the Islamic State in Syria testified on Wednesday that he and other hostages were forced by their captors to sing a depraved parody of the Eagles song ‘Hotel California’ called ‘Hotel Osama.’

‘It was terrifying for us, a joke for them,’ Nicolas Henin said at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a 33-year-old former British national.

Elsheikh is accused of involvement in the murders of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.

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

Move out of the way, Europe, Islam is taking over

Germany as a prototype:Christian symbols disappear as Europeans discard them, but there is no vacuum. Islam takes their place.

Cologne Cathedral, known as the “German Rome”, is the landmark of the city and has been declared a World Heritage Site since 1996. It is one of the most visited places in Germany and one of the most important in Christianity (it was visited by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI). The first stone of the cathedral was laid in 1248. On old black and white photos you can see how the towers of the cathedral protrude from the rubble of the historic center completely destroyed during the Second World War.

Now the city of Cologne is deleting the iconic cathedral from its new logo. “My 92-year-old mother is stunned, my 11-year-old son is crying and my friend in London doesn’t understand it,” writes sculptor and painter Cornel Wachter.

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

Muslim terrorists kidnap 83-year-old American nun from bed in Burkina Faso

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other women unhurt, a Louisiana official for the order said Wednesday.

Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine,” Sister Ann Lacour, U.S. congregational leader for the Marianites of Holy Cross in Covington, Louisiana, told The Associated Press. Lacour provided additional details of the kidnapping a day after the AP reported it.

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

2 killed, 8 wounded in Tel Aviv shooting: Israeli medics

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli medics say at least two people were killed and several wounded in a shooting in central Tel Aviv.

The Thursday night attack occurred in an area with several bars and restaurants packed with people. The motive for the shooting was not immediately clear, but it came amid heightened tensions following a series of deadly attacks carried out by Palestinians.

by Blazingcatfur•April 7, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Mother ‘begged for life’ of IS hostage, court hears

Parents of a US humanitarian worker killed by the Islamic State begged for her life in emails to her captors, a court has heard.

Kayla Mueller, 26, was one of several people who died at the hands of a Syria-based IS terror cell dubbed the Beatles due to their British accents.

On Tuesday, her mother Marsha spoke at the federal trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, known as “Jihadi George”.

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

Al-Qaida leader circulates proof of life video

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A rare video has appeared of al-Qaida’s chief praising an Indian Muslim woman who in February defied a ban on hijab wearing, revealing the first proof in months that he is still alive.

Rumors of the death of Ayman al-Zawahri have persistently circulated, but in a video released Tuesday and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, the reclusive al-Qaida chief praises Muskan Khan who defied a ban on the wearing of the hijab in schools in India’s southwestern state of Karnataka.

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

How the Islamic State trial could change the future of US terrorism cases

As the trial against the accused Islamic State fighter El Shafee Elsheikh began this week on American soil, jurors in a northern Virginia courtroom were quickly exposed to accounts of unimaginable brutality.

Elsheikh, prosecutors alleged, carried out terrorist acts that involved the grisly deaths of four Americans – the journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, as well as the aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.

Elsheikh, a former British national, allegedly did so as part of a three-man cell dubbed “the Beatles” by the group’s hostages, due to their English accents. Officials have said that this cell was responsible for the kidnappings of more than 20 westerners between 2012 and 2015.

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

New York State Supports Hamas, Muzzles Anti-Islamist Reporter

Letitia James has used her office to thwart investigative reporters while sticking up for a group with intimate ties to Hamas.

New Yorkers are currently suffering through an epidemic of violent crime that is diminishing the quality of life of the nation’s most-burdened taxpayers. And what is state attorney general Letitia James doing about it? Pushing back against the so-called bail-reform laws that every day turn violent offenders back out on the street? Devising new ways to protect tourists and residents? Conducting a forensic investigation into all that missing Covid-19 relief cash that was stolen?

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

Press claimed it was simple accident … Jewish Man Fatally Struck by Tram in Paris Was Fleeing From Brutal Antisemitic Attack

The French authorities have opened an investigation into the case of a young Jewish man in Paris who was killed by a passing tram while fleeing a violent assault that his family insists was motivated by antisemitism.

The victim, 31-year-old Jérémy Cohen, lost his life on Feb. 17 after being struck by a moving tram in the Paris suburb of Bobigny. A harrowing video of the incident posted to social media over the weekend shows an individual fleeing from a violent attack by at least a dozen gang members, before running into the street where he was knocked down and killed by an oncoming tram.

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

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?

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