Islam and violence – Page 363

This Canadian is charged with a terrorism hoax. Two experts counselled him. Only one still believes him

Amarnath Amarasingam and Mubin Shaikh are both regarded as experts in radicalization.

Both say they have spent extensive amounts of time counselling Shehroze Chaudhry, a 26-year-old Burlington, Ont. man now facing a rare terrorism-hoax charge and recently labelled a “fabulist” by The New York Times over his claims that he committed atrocities on behalf of the Islamic State in Syria.

For his part, Shaikh, a Seneca College professor and former counterterrorism operative for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, says he now believes Chaudhry never stepped foot in Syria and got caught up in his own “fantasy.”

Yet Amarasingam, a Queen’s University professor, isn’t so quick to dismiss Chaudhry’s claims, noting he’s seen signs of “remorse” and “survivor’s guilt” in the young man.

This sick joke is what passes for expertise in “Canadian” counter-jihad. Good Lord.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2020December 26, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's 5th Column, Islamization of the West

NYC: Man Murders ‘Americanized’ Daughter Who Didn’t Want to Wear Hijab

Kabary Salem is a former Olympic boxer who was arraigned Tuesday on murder charges over the strangulation death of his daughter, Ola Salem. Ola Salem, a Muslim women’s rights activist, was found dead in Staten Island on October 24, 2019. According to an acquaintance, Ola Salem was “becoming very Americanized,” and that seems to have been what sent her father over the edge.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 25, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

France: Churches under high security due to Christmas terror threat

“PLACES OF WORSHIP ARE POTENTIAL TARGETS”: FOR CHRISTMAS, INCREASED SECURITY IN CHURCHES

Gérald Darmanin asked the prefects to strengthen the security of the churches on Thursday and Friday. A presence that reassures the parishioners, feeling “safe thanks to them”.

In addition to the health crisis, places of worship are still under vigilance for an attack threat to its maximum. For this Christmas day, like the day before, the security system has been reinforced around the churches. The goal? Reassure the parishioners and impose a “dissuasive” presence.

It’s practically a Christmas tradition in France. Note Google translate used.

by Blazingcatfur•December 25, 2020December 25, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

US election 2020: FBI links Iran to websites targeting poll officials

Iranian cyber actors were “almost certainly” behind a number of websites and social media accounts which contained death threats against senior officials in charge of securing and managing the 2020 election, two US security agencies have announced.

In a joint statement published on 23 December, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) said they were in possession of “highly credible information” indicating Iran was responsible for the operation.

The operation “demonstrates an ongoing Iranian intent to create divisions and mistrust in the United States and undermine public confidence in the US electoral process”, it added.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2020December 24, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, USA

Jihad at Christmas: “Coldly Kill Them with Hate and Rage”

This month, Islamic State terrorists released a “religious” song for Christmas, “Coldly Kill Them With Hate and Rage”. Taking the form of Islamic religious chant, the song, according to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute, exhorts jihadists everywhere to murder non-Muslims, “pagans, atheists and polytheists”, from “West Africa all the way to east Asia… through air, land and sea”. Published on Telegram, the post includes the hashtag #MerryChristmas and a photograph of a Christmas tree with dynamite attached.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2020December 24, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Suspects in Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping, beheading allowed to walk free

A Pakistani court on Thursday ordered the immediate release of the four suspects in journalist Daniel Pearl’s beheading — defying its own government, which had demanded they stay behind bars.

Sindh High Court issued a written order for accused mastermind Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and alleged cohorts Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib to be “released from jail forthwith,” according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2020December 24, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State, USA

‘SHE WAS THREATENED’: Suicide ruling for Pakistani human rights activist questioned

Activist friends and family of Karima Mehrab claim her death was no accident.

Lateef Johar Baloch said the last time he spoke with the 37-year-old Pakistani human rights activist was on Friday about her courses at University of Toronto, where she was studying political science and economics. She went missing on Sunday and Balcoh said her body was pulled from Lake Ontario, near Centre Island, on Monday.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2020December 23, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Karima Baloch: Pakistani rights activist found dead in Toronto

The body of Karima Baloch, a Pakistani human rights activist, has been found in Toronto, Canada, where she had been living for five years in exile.

Ms Baloch, 37, a campaigner from the restive region of Balochistan in western Pakistan, was a vocal critic of the Pakistani military and state.

Toronto police issued an appeal after she went missing on Sunday and later confirmed that her body had been found.

Police said there were “not believed to be any suspicious circumstances”.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2020December 22, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Berlin Islamist terror attack: A deadly story of failure

Eleven people died and 60 were seriously injured when the Islamist Anis Amri drove a stolen truck into a Christmas market in central Berlin on December 19, 2016.

The 24-year-old Tunisian national whose application for asylum had been rejected had hijacked the semi-trailer truck, killing Polish driver Lukasz Robert Urban.

The attacker managed to escape and travel through Europe until he was shot dead by Italian police on December 23 after an altercation in Milan.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2020December 21, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Germany, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

UK Finally Acknowledges the Obvious

The first step in any effective rehabilitation program is acknowledging you have a problem. The United Kingdom has finally come to the realization that its deradicalization program for terrorists is an utter failure.

Jonathan Hall, Britain’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, made this admission, “…there is no evidence that deradicalisation programmes work,” publicly in a recent interview with the London Times.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2020December 21, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Austria: Top Court Overturns Headscarf Ban

The Austrian Constitutional Court has ruled that Austria’s ban on the wearing of headscarves in public schools violates the freedom of religion and the freedom of expression and therefore is unconstitutional.

The case highlights the constitutional restraints that European governments face in regulating political Islam and promoting integration.

The headscarf ban, introduced in June 2019 by a governing coalition comprised of the center-right People’s Party (ÖVP) and the populist Freedom Party (FPÖ), was an extension of a groundbreaking October 2017 “Integration Law” that sought to improve the integration of Muslims into Austrian society.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2020December 21, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Austria, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

New Study Shows Islamist Violence Remains Top Terror Threat

Islamist extremism remains the most threatening form of terrorism worldwide by far, according to the latest Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2020 report. Among the top 20 states most vulnerable to terrorism, 19 of them are mainly targeted by armed Islamist actors.

The four deadliest terrorist organizations identified in the study are the Taliban, Boko Haram, the Islamic State, and the al-Qaida affiliated al-Shabaab group based in Somalia. These Islamist organizations were behind over half of the total deaths recorded in 2019.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2020December 21, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Lockerbie bombing: Alleged bomb-maker charged on 32nd anniversary of attack

The US has announced charges against a Libyan suspected of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

Abu Agila Mohammad Masud has been charged with terrorism-related crimes, Attorney General William Barr said on Monday, 32 years on from the atrocity.

The deadly bomb attack on the Boeing 747 killed 270 people, including 190 American citizens.

Prosecutors will seek the extradition of Mr Masud to stand trial in the US.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2020December 21, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, USA

Mark Durie: Macron’s Vain Hope For An Enlightened Islam

“A fundamental problem with Macron’s renewal program lies in a difference between Islam and Christianity, namely that the very idea of secularity is alien to Islam. The principle of the separation of church and state rests on biblical foundations. It was noteworthy that Marine Le Pen quoted a phrase of Jesus Christ in her recent speech against Islamism, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and render to God the things that are God’s” (Mark 12:17). Nothing like this exists in Islam: everything is Allah’s, and the core of Islam is about the exertion of power in service of Allah. As Bernard Lewis repeatedly pointed out, classical Arabic did not even have the language to make the distinction between church and state, sacred and profane, spiritual and temporal, and ecclesiastical and secular. Such terms entered Arabic via the writings of Arabic-speaking Christians.”

Islam does not do integration.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2020December 20, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Rep. Debbie Dingell Demands Facebook Remove Criticism of Islam

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has always had friends in high places, and on Wednesday it celebrated another, announcing that it had “thanked Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) – and the 29 congressional colleagues that joined her – in urging Facebook to take immediate action to eliminate anti-Muslim bigotry from that social media platform.” CAIR’s longtime spokesman Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper noted proudly that it was “one of several organizations named by Rep. Dingell in her press release announcing the letter.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2020December 20, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, Islamization of the West, USA, WTF?