Dec 20, 2014 09:08 pm | Robert Spencer
Working to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah”
(Qur’an 8:60). “Extremists in Nigeria Lining up Elderly and Shooting
Them,” by Haruna Umar, Associated Press, December 20, 2014: Islamic
extremists in northeast Nigeria are turning their guns on elderly
people, killing more than 50 this week in a new tactic that has […]
Dec 20, 2014 08:40 pm | Robert Spencer
Ismaaiyl Brinsley murdered two policemen in Brooklyn today, as they
were having lunch. The murders are being reported as revenge for the
deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. However, there appears to be
more to the story. His Facebook page contains a photo of Qur’an 8:60,
which includes the phrase, “Strike terror into the […]
Dec 20, 2014 06:24 pm | Robert Spencer
If he does, they say he will become an apostate from Islam, since Islam
forbids Muslims to give good wishes to Christians on the occasion of
their feasts. And if he is an apostate from Islam, then according to
Muhammad’s command and Islamic law, he can lawfully be killed. “FPI
Calls on President Not to […]
Dec 20, 2014 06:08 pm | Robert Spencer
“The Obama administration has released the four on the basis that
charges cannot be brought against them and that it is possible to
reintegrate the individuals back into society following the detention.”
What will they do? Buy farms? Open restaurants? Isn’t it more likely
that they will return to the trade they know — jihad? […]
Dec 20, 2014 05:52 pm | Robert Spencer
AP here describes the Rosengaard district as “multiethnic,” and then
says that it is “dominated by immigrants from Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia and
Lebanon.” The fact that there is a single dominant religion common to
those four places, and that some adherents of that religion tend to set
off car bombs in pursuit of their religious […]
Dec 20, 2014 05:10 pm | Robert Spencer
“The cropped image of Santa Claus about to be beheaded isn’t just part
of the Islamic State’s humor or entirely a joke. It emanates from a
supremacist worldview that seeks the forced extinction of all contrary
beliefs.” “Islamic State Mocks US With Photoshopped Santa Held Hostage,”
by Ryan Mauro, Clarion Project, December 18, 2014: Islamic […]
Dec 20, 2014 04:35 pm | Robert Spencer
This bomb may have been intended to murder Shi’ites, as it went off
near a “checkpoint manned by Shia Houthi rebels.” “Yemen car bomb
attacks ‘kill 15 children,'” BBC, December 20, 2014: At least 25 people,
among them 15 children, have been killed in twin car bomb attack in the
central Yemeni province of Bayda, […]
Dec 20, 2014 01:14 pm | Robert Spencer
Not that this has anything to do with Islam, of course. “French police
kill knife-wielding man who stabbed officer in the face,” i24News,
December 20, 2014: Man entered police station, screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’,
attacked policemen French police
on Saturday shot dead a man who attacked them with a knife in a police station while shouting […]
Dec 20, 2014 12:10 pm | Robert Spencer
The purpose of releasing such images is twofold: it “strikes terror
into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60), and it
demonstrates to Muslims that the Islamic State is carrying out Islamic
law in its fullness, including this: “The thief, the male and the
female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they […]
Dec 20, 2014 10:01 am | Robert Spencer
The Arabic writing above “Aaron Wieder” says “Harun,” which is Aaron in
Arabic and suggests that the threatener was not just someone who saw
the Islamic State beheadings on the news and thought they were cool.
This could be a genuine jihad threat, or it could be someone who thinks
it is fun to terrorize […]
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