Islam and violence – Page 289

The path to hate: How a former Irish soldier joined Islamic State

Dundalk’s Lisa Smith will be sentenced in July following her conviction at the Special Criminal Court

Lisa Smith had been back in Ireland just a few hours when she was handed a cup of coffee by detectives at Store Street Garda Station. “The coffee is very strong in Syria,” she said, “this tastes very watery.”

It was a mild element of the culture shock she was experiencing. Over the next four days she would recall how her fear of hell-fire prompted her to go to Syria where she first lived in what she described as a women’s prison. She recalled her reluctant marriage and the beatings she received from her husband and the time she saw a dead man hanging from a cross with his eyes gouged out. There were the bombs that started to destroy the Islamic State she had travelled thousands of miles to be part of, forcing her to flee from city to village and town where she would watch as people were gunned down by snipers while she struggled to feed herself and her baby. She would recall saying goodbye to her husband as he returned to fight in a certain-death battle and then there were the long months in a refugee camp where horrific punishments, including burning alive, were inflicted even for minor infractions.

by Blazingcatfur•June 3, 2022June 3, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Ireland, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Daughter of ISIS Woman Accused of Aiding Child Rape Arrested

The daughter of a Swedish Islamic State woman accused of aiding child rape and human trafficking in Syria was arrested in Denmark while trying to bring a four-year-old girl to Qatar.

The daughter of Swedish Islamic State extremist Camilla Olofsson and deceased al-Qaeda terrorist Mohamed Moumous was arrested in Kastrup in Copenhagen where she intended to board a flight with a four-year-old girl and take her to Qatar, despite the girl’s mother not approving of the trip.

by Blazingcatfur•June 3, 2022June 3, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Muslim call to prayer arrives to Minneapolis soundscape

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The chant in Arabic blasted from rooftop loudspeakers, drowning out both the growl of traffic from nearby interstates and the chatter and clinking glasses on the patio of the dive bar that shares a wall with Minneapolis’ oldest Somali mosque.

Dozens of men in fashionably ripped jeans or impeccably ironed kameez tunics rushed toward the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque. Teens clutched smartphones, and some of the older devout shuffled in with the aid of walkers from the high-rise complex across the street where thousands of Somalis live.

Link fixed.

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

Was the Muslim Conquest of Spain Driven by Piety or Plunder?

Recently, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar University, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, claimed that the seventh-century Muslim conquests of the mostly Christian-majority Middle East and North Africa “were not conquests of colonization that rely on the methods of plunder, oppression, control, and the policies of domination and dependency.” Rather, they were about bringing “knowledge, justice, freedom, and equality” to the conquered.

by Blazingcatfur•June 2, 2022June 1, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Criticize multiculturalism and become a pariah

Famous author Uwe Telkamp is cancelled for saying that most Muslim migrants are not fleeing persecution but looking for social welfare.

“I have to justify even being German, to dare to refer to Goethe. Suddenly, you are like a pariah.” This is how Uwe Tellkamp speaks at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His is the cultural case of recent years.

Not only because in 2008 Tellkamp published the great novel “The Tower”, which sold over a million copies and describes the last years of the German Democratic Republic through the educated middle class of Dresden. It has won numerous literary awards and has been celebrated by all feuilletons and literary critics.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2022May 31, 2022•0•"Cancel Culture", "Diversity", "Islamophobia", "Multiculturalism", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

A compelling book warns of the dangers of radical Islam

Anna Mae D. Simmons, having devoted a lifetime of study of the culture and religious teachings of Islam and then turning her efforts to exposing the evil of Islam, has written a book that energetically and intensely studies the Islamic religious literature traditions in order to provide non-Islamists with a perspective on the uniquely belligerent, cruel, barbaric religion of history: Islam. She provides us with insights in the book Who is the Radical Islamist? And Why? (213 pages, softcover $9.99, ISBN 978-14787-94509 [Outskirts Press 2018]).

Even though on every turn of the page, she adds reverent mentions of Muhammad, the point of the book is that she exposes the reasons why violent and barbaric jihadism is the guiding light of fundamental Islam and has not been extinguished. It is still the paradigm of action for Islamists even in situations where they are in the minority.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2022May 30, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Why shootings are on the increase in Sweden’s suburbs

“Our kids are actually dying – and it’s weekly. Mother after mother, after mother is burying their kids,” the heartbreaking words I heard from Maritha, a mother whose son Marley was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm.

Maritha spends her time campaigning to end gun crime, whilst her son’s killer is yet to face justice.

When I travelled to Stockholm for my On Assignment report, Maritha would be the first person to tell me the primary factor driving Sweden’s rising gun crime murders was segregation, but she would not be last.

The headlines about serious youth violence and gang crime bring to mind cities such as London, New York and Sao Paulo.

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

The uncomfortable truth about France’s ‘local youths’ – Blaming Liverpool fans for the Champions League chaos is misleading

“… Local youths” has become a familiar PC byword in France for what the thinking class is actually referring to: minorities. Their presence was confirmed by BBC reporter Nick Parrott, who filmed groups of French Arabs and Sub-Saharan immigrants trying to force their way into the arena. This led to security closing a number of stadium gates and preventing fans with tickets from entering. Other groups of thugs were filmed storming the gates, while security forces were nowhere to be seen.”

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

Why, for the UN, Is One Mosque Massacre So Much Worse than Countless Church Massacres?

The United Nations recently named March 15 as “international day to combat Islamophobia.” That date was chosen because it witnessed one of the worst terror attacks on Muslims: on March 15, 2019, an armed Australian, Brenton Tarrant, entered two mosques in New Zealand and opened fire on unarmed and helpless Muslim worshippers; 51 were killed and 40 wounded.

Not only has this incident been widely condemned throughout the West — and rightfully so. It has also caused the UN to single out Islam as needing special protection.

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

“Calgary Man”

‘Extremely serious’: Calgary man involved in terrorism activity sentenced to 12 years

CALGARY – A man who admitted to terrorism-related acts with the militant group Islamic State, saying he didn’t know any better,has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Hussein Borhot, 36, appeared Thursday before Court of Queen’s Bench Justice David Labrenz for a sentencing hearing in Calgary.

“Quite clearly, you intended to assist or facilitate the activities of a terrorist group. You carried that plan into action,” Labrenz told Borhot as the judge accepted a joint sentencing recommendation from the Crown and the defence.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2022May 27, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Swedish would-be ISIS fighters jailed after recruitment sting

Two Swedish brothers have been sentenced to jail for eight months after their efforts to join ISIS unravelled when their recruiter was revealed as an undercover intelligence officer.

The men, who have not been identified, were arrested in February at Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport as they tried to leave Sweden to join the combat ranks of the terrorist group.

Prosecutors produced 200 pages of messages passed to them by an unidentified foreign intelligence agency, which revealed how the pair were seeking a fighting role with ISIS.

Brooklyn man convicted of backing ISIS by recruiting members, smuggling guns

Mirsad Kandic, 40, was found guilty of conspiracy and providing material support to ISIS Tuesday after a three-week trial in Brooklyn federal court. He faces up to life in prison at his sentencing on Nov. 9.

Kandic is responsible for recruiting thousands of Westerners to fight in Syria and the Middle East, including Australian teenager and suicide bomber Jake Bilardi, who killed himself, more than 30 Iraqi soldiers and a policeman in Ramadi, Iraq, on March 11, 2015, officials allege.

France charges 18-yr-old over ISIS attack plot: Judicial source

French authorities have charged an 18-year-old man on suspicion of planning an imminent terror attack with a knife in the name of ISIS extremists, a judicial source said on Wednesday.

Initial investigations indicated that he planned to carry out a terror attack “in the name of ISIS, to which he had pledged allegiance,” said the source, who asked not to be named.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2022May 26, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Canada Soccer gets a clue cancels “Friendly” match against murderous Islamist regime of Iran

Canada Soccer says it has cancelled a controversial exhibition game against Iran set for next month in Vancouver.

The international match, which was scheduled for June 5 as part of the preparations for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar later this year, drew the scorn of the families of those who died aboard Flight PS752 when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down the plane in 2020.

by Blazingcatfur•May 26, 2022May 26, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Mila trial: Six people convicted of harassing French teenager over anti-Islam videos

Six people have been sentenced for harassing a French teenager online after she criticised Islam in social media videos.

The Paris court had found the suspects guilty of sending hate messages and death threats to a 16-year-old girl — identified as Mila.

They were given punishments ranging from a three-month suspended sentence to a four-month prison term under an electronic bracelet.

Judges heard how Mila was the target of a “tidal wave of hatred” after she posted a video online in January 2020.

by Blazingcatfur•May 26, 2022May 25, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Biden Takes Blind Sheikh’s Terror Group Off Terror List

In 1993, the United States finally arrested Omar Abdel-Rahman, popularly known as the Blind Sheikh, the religious leader of the Egyptian Jihadist group Gamaat Islamiya, after three years during which his followers bombed the World Trade Center and plotted to bomb the Statue of Liberty and a range of targets all across New York City.

The Biden administration has now announced that it’s taking Gamaat Islamiya off the terror list.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2022May 25, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", "Joe Sleazebag Biden", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Report: ISIS Plotted to Assassinate George W. Bush by Smuggling Terrorists through Biden‘s Open Border

An accused Islamic State (ISIS) operative living in Columbus, Ohio, allegedly sought to smuggle terrorists through the United States-Mexico border in a plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush, an unsealed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) search warrant application reveals.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2022May 24, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA